Kids are kind of funny and truly say the damnedest things. One of the four kids I watch regularly every week said the oddest thing today. Its weird to watch two different families of kids every week especially because the're all about the same age from three to just over six. One family I watch their kids every morning from six to when I take them to school at about nine, which is coincidentally when I have to get ready for my regular job which is from 9:30 to 5:30. The other family I watch the kids in the evenings from about a quarter to six to nine, I fix them dinner help them with their homework, get them ready for bed and do whatever needs to be done while their parents go to the gym, go grocery shopping, stay late at work, go out to dinner or just close themselves in their home office and to paperwork.
What is most interesting is the comparison between the two families. In the morning I watch two girls six and three and in the evening I watch a boy and girl six and four. They are comparable in age but couldn't be more different for example the three year old girl I watch in the morning fully understands and completely comprehends the numerical sense of infinity. One morning when I was fixing her breakfast she asked how long till her pancake was finished cooking and I said two minutes, she then asked how many second that was and I told her it was one hundred and twenty seconds so she subsequently counted to a hundred and twenty. Since she's a total smart-aleck she then pointed out that the pancake wasn't yet finished. I asked her how she could count and she said ten hundred, but that her dad could count to infinity. I asked her how high infinity was and she said it was that the numbers went on for ever and ever.
Subsequently the four year old girl I watch in the evening thinks the highest number is "google". We were playing basketball on their indoor half court and she asked what the score was and I told her she was winning nine to two which she then told me that no she was wining twenty-six thousand to my two. So a few minutes later I told her the score was twenty-eight thousand to six thousand, which she than insisted that she had "fifty-two thousand google." You can only imagine how surprised I was. So I asked her what "google" was which she then insisted was the place you got answers and the highest number. I have no idea where she got this idea that "google" is the highest number and despite the fact that I spent the next hour as we did homework and she got ready for bed, trying to explain numbers and the concept of infinity to her and explain that "google" wasn't actually a number but "googol" was 1 followed by 100 zeros. As of today, about two weeks since she told me "google" was the biggest number, she still believes adamantly that "google" is the biggest number and "googol isn't real.
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