On a trip to Newcastle last weekend our son remarked
“I know that the river is beautiful at night but just imagine how stunning it would have been without humans”. “Do you think the world is a better place for having humans?”
This slightly took me aback as I has only asked him if he wanted pizza or a burger to eat on our way home….. It’s been week after week of questions that seem to have befuddled my limited reasoning powers.
“How do you think a plant cell first adapted to include Chloroplasts?”
“Do Alice Coopers friends call him Alice or his real name?”
“Why do kids laugh at people who can’t read but don’t seem to laugh at people who can’t do art or do maths?”
“Do you think the Doughnut Shaped universe theory is right?”
“Why can some people sing and some like you can’t sing – is it your body, a skill you learn or just luck?”
“Why do they keep saying those pesky kids in Scooby Doo when they must be older than you these days?”
“Why are there so many religions?”
“Rather than always trying to be good, would I get more help if I started to behave badly at school. If I did get more help would that not mean that I would have a better chance of improving?”
“Why are paper cuts so painful?”
“I have to paint a picture for Art homework, it has to be like one by Henri Rousseau, what is his style?”
“Why do we have to grow up?”
“Do you think Donald Trump gets his bodyguards to search for his golf balls?”
“How do we really know that the colour green is actually green, or it’s just a fault in the human eye?”
“In Spongebob why don’t the crabby patties ever get really wet being under the sea?”
“Did the Astronauts have to wipe their boots on a mat when they came back to the ship after a moon walk?”
“What’s your favourite Pokemon from each of the regions?”
“The Prime Minister is old. All the people helping her are old. Why are there never any young people helping. Leaving Europe effects the young as well. Is it because they wouldn’t agree with our view of the world?”
“Why is Dinosaur Train never on TV now, is it because they are having to redraw all the dinosaurs with feathers?”
“Who decides what a swear word is?”
“If Crocodiles survived the mass extinction why couldn’t some of the dinosaurs survive?”
“Why are schools made to be so unfriendly?”
“If some mountain ranges are rising up from earth movements does it mean somewhere else has to be getting lower?”
“Why after all those years of not winning a single thing and constantly letting you down, do you keep supporting that football team?”
“Do you think Stan Lee would rather go to Heaven or Valhalla?”
“What’s your favourite Batman bad guy excluding The Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Mr Freeze, Two Face, Bane and al Ghul?
“If I lived on a deserted island and I never met another person ever again, could I just forget that I have Aspergers and Dyslexia ?”
Even google couldn’t help me with some of those questions. As I’m writing this he has just stopped watching his tablet and asked:
“If we know so little about the universe, this man has just said less than 1%, how can scientists be so certain about things?”
Thankfully this was followed up by “have we got any ice cream in?” – I can answer that one.
