Small anecdote from today.

[LivingElemental]

Maybe the wrong place to post this, so I can delete it if need be.

So I was examining a half-worked stave for the hundredth time today that I've got in my bedroom just hanging out leaning against a wall, when my 3 year old came running in and goes, "Wow! What's that?!"
The dialogue procedes as follows:

"It's gonna be a bow." "That's not a bow, it doesn't got a string!" "Well, it's not finished yet. I still have some work to do." "You can't forget the string and those sticks!" "What sticks?" "Those sticks you put with the bow so when you pull the string back and let go they fly away and kill people!"

I've never been so horrified and proud at the same time of my little girl. I guess she'll be the type to kill people for food when the world ends.

[toomanyknots]

Maybe the wrong place to post this, so I can delete it if need be.

So I was examining a half-worked stave for the hundredth time today that I've got in my bedroom just hanging out leaning against a wall, when my 3 year old came running in and goes, "Wow! What's that?!"
The dialogue procedes as follows:

"It's gonna be a bow." "That's not a bow, it doesn't got a string!" "Well, it's not finished yet. I still have some work to do." "You can't forget the string and those sticks!" "What sticks?" "Those sticks you put with the bow so when you pull the string back and let go they fly away and kill people!"

I've never been so horrified and proud at the same time of my little girl. I guess she'll be the type to kill people for food when the world ends.

You should be very proud, she is a very smart girl. That is exactly what they are for and have been for 1000's of years, and for her to know that at such a young age as 3 years I would say indicates a very high intelligence. My wife has a 15 year old nephew, and I was showing him some of my bows one day. He thought that the bow worked by the string stretching like a rubberband instead of the limbs bending. But he sure knows how to navigate facebook like a pro... 

[LivingElemental]

She's a hell of a lot smarter than I was as a kid, I can tell you that. I'm having to teach the kid next door (10yrs old and wants to be a pro shot with a bow) more physics and common sense than I believe his brain has the capacity for.

[Del the cat]

Great , kids are great for cutting through the bull.
Del

[Carson (CMB)]

 
I get the same mixed emotion feeling when my daughter talks about killing.  Lately, the killing thing is focused on monsters.  That is fine by me...nsters are good practice for food or villian.