My daughter, Little Miss 6 Years does crack me up at times. According to her school teacher she is fascinated by science and especially space travel. She likes rockets and is always asking about the planets. She is amazed that you can see Jupiter in the evening sky, and when I pointed out Venus to her a few weeks ago I honestly thought she was going to wet her pants 
To say we were gob-smacked by this revelation was an understatement. It would appear that my first-born could be a potential geek!
But tonight I do wonder. Stars, apparently, are not like our Sun. Our Sun only shows in the day, whereas stars shine at night. And stars are not stars, they are people who have gone to heaven… Grandad Teddy (who died the same year she was born) is a star. I can see him!
I gave up trying at first to explain and then to reason. I had, clearly, lost this argument!
Ahh, the simplicity of the child’s mind. I want to be that child again…
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