Tomorrow, I will share some summer ideas for the mini mad scientist. Today, let’s determine if you have one in your home.
You kid might be a mad scientist if:
1. She has disassembled all your appliances in the name of scientific discovery.
2. He knows one fact about sunflowers. Not that they have edible seeds, but that the seeds spiral out in a Fibonocchi sequence (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55, etc.)
3. She responds to every insane mess she created, especially those requiring a call to the plummer with, “But I needed to know what would happen.”
4. He builds Lego towers with color patterns that must be “just so.”
5. She builds ridiculously complex routes out of her train set.
6. When he helps you cook, he is most fascinated by the math involved and any good chemical reactions, like yeast.
7. She can create anything out of simple office supplies.
8. He knows there is more than one good design for a paper airplane or homemade kite.
9. She can rewire your house.
10. He finds the one Ivy league physics professor lingering by the new exhibit at the science center and they build carbon nanotubes models out of tinker toys together. Afterwards, you realize that was probably the faculty member you should have asked about summer camps and scholarships. Oops.
Any one of the above generally means there’s a scientific mind at work in your home. Tomorrow, I will help you find ways to keep them entertained and stimulated this Summer.
‘Cause if you don’t help them find ways to explore the world around them, they will without fail create chaos in the name of science. So let’s give the little evil genius a little guidance and keep our sanity at the same time.
