Kids say the darndest things

Here is a quick post, since it is nap time. Friday was Career Day at Sunnyside school and for some reason they keep asking us back. Here are three things kids said that I thought we pretty cute.

1. After the first of our four sessions, I asked "Who has decided to become a food scientist?" One second grader said, "I don't know yet, I still have three classes left!"

2. For some reason we thought showing the kids a fruit and flake cereal experiment would be a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, even with a wet paper towel, the flakes only got a little bit stale. So we just had to talk about it. We talked about the water activity of the raisins (about .7) and the water activity of the flakes (about .3) and asked the first & second graders what would happen if we put them together. One girl raised her hand and said, "The flakes will become soggy and the fruit will become hard." Just like that, water activity understood by a youngster--too bad she's not around to explain it to the people in our seminars!

3. One first/second grader, apparently seeking a confidant, took me aside and very seriously told me "I am going to be in the Army. And, if I survive, I am going to be a stunt man"--A strange dose of reality with regular childhood dreams!