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The Day it Rained Candy

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

I have Type II Diabetes. I’m rather open about it for a number of reasons, but the point is that both of my children know what it is, what can happen if untreated – more than they ever really wanted to know.

Recently, my wife came across a story that my son wrote at school. The assignment was to write a story from the title, “The Day it Rained Candy”. Here’s what he wrote:

The Day it Rained Candy

One day a boy woke up and it was raining candy. He ran outside to get some but the animals ate it all. He was sad. The animals were happy until they each got a heart attack.

Well, at least he was listening! :-)

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“Missing the point” gets taken to a whole new level…

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Over the Christmas/New Years break, my 7-year-old son, Alex, was introduced to an online game called Toontown. He was having a bit of trouble with dropped connections to the server, and I speculated that there might be a more players online than their server can handle.

Later that evening, I was reading an article about the One Laptop Per Child project (olpc.org) and the interviewee stated that fewer than half the children in the world have electricity in the home. I like to encourage the kids to be grateful for what they have, so I called Alex in and presented this statistical nugget with the expectation that his horizons and understanding of world issues would broaden.

He thought for a second or two, got a very serious look on his face and said, “Hey, Dad. You know what this means?” I waited expectantly for the thoughtful insight of my future Nobel price winner. “If only half the kids in the world have electricity, the problem with Toontown can’t be to many people on the server. It would have to be some other reason.”

Oh, well. I hope those tickets to Sweden are refundable! :-)

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