The other day, my 10 year old Calvin looked at me with his big blue eyes and asked if it is possible for people to be allergic to glass. I thought he was so cute that he asked such a random question and I pictured some person smelling a glass window and sneezing. So, sort of giggling to myself said "Wellllllllll....Calvin, I have NEVER heard of THAT". But then he said, "well, people are allergic to sand and glass is made from sand...". Oh, I had never really thought of it like that. So, I said that we should Google it (which has been a very popular response from me from the moment my kids started to question things).
We spend a lot of time discussing and figuring stuff out, from homework to just questions like this one. He asks a ton of questions. He thinks of really crazy ideas...like his invention of foot mints for stinky feet. In fact, all three of my kids are really curious. I don't remember being as curious as they are. Maybe I did question things when I was Calvin's age. Maybe I asked a ton of questions and connected the dots like Calvin does, but I really don't remember. I remember just really liking art and music. I loved playing sports. As I recall, I didn't excel in the sciences.
In fact, when he brought up the fact that people could be allergic to glass because it is made of sand, my mind wandered and I thought of the movie Raising Arizona.
Prisoner: "And when there was no more Crawdads, to be found, we ate sand."
H.I.: "You ate what?"
Prisoner: "We ate sand".
H.I.: "You ate sand?"
Prisoner: "We ate sand."
I am glad that my kids question things. It keeps me on my toes.
Oh, and I did Google his question and got distracted about “moon sand”, so if someone knows the answer just let me know.
