I tried to bore my son to sleep by reading Dune to him. He now reads the books on his own.
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Missed a chance to say "I tried to literally Bohr my 3yo to sleep"
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Kids just want attention and love from their parents. They’ll take interest in your interests if you share them with them.
My grandpa (electrician) was telling me about electrons. I was so fascinated with things like current not being speed, and magnetic force, and batteries. I think I've learned now everything there is to learn about electrons - electronics, electrochemistry, magnetooptics, electron microscopy, positron tomography, xray generation, power generation, electrites, etc, etc.
Still unemployed lol.
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Kids love trivia. When I was a kid I had the characteristics of dozens of dinosaur species memorized. The whole Pokemon franchise is built on this.
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They just want you to engage with them
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Gotta get ‘em hooked on the physics early!
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Young kids love the sound of your voice and can sense the enthusiasm probably. They will respond to that more than the content. My daughter was the same with stories about the ice age…
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Kids learn what you teach them.
Our babysitter taught us calculus at like 9.
It took me a long time before I could use it.
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As a father this translates to me as, "I like hearing you talk about stuff you love."
He'll make a neutron source in the backyard in no time.
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Anybody else try to memorize the chemical elements? Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, calcium. That's as far as I ever got, the metals were too confusing.
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