Dylan: I want to give David a present. What can I give him? Can I buy him something?
Mum: No. You can make him something though.
Dylan: I’ve got a GREAT idea!
Mum: What’s that?
Dylan: We can do some painting again – you can do a picture for the cleaner, and I can do a picture for David!
Mum: OK. What will you paint?
Dylan: I’ll paint him a picture of the submarine we went on, because he’s not going on it.
SUBMARINE, SHIPWRECKS AND FISHES
Age 6
CANARIAN LIZARD
Age 37
Mum: Have a look at these videos from the other day.
Dylan: We could do Tickled Pink, Green for Growth with it!
Mum: What’s that?
Dylan: When you say two things that are nice about it and one thing that you could do to make it better next time. We do it at school, every morning at circle time when people talk about their things they’ve made.
Mum: That sounds like a great idea! Go on then – two things you like about the videos.
Dylan: I like that they had dolphins in them and they were nice and clear.
Mum: Thank you, and one thing I could do better?
Dylan: Ummm. Maybe next time you could take the video when people were quieter.
Mum: Perhaps I could take the sound off and play some music over it…
D: Look, the water‘s going out of the basin like a swirl pool! …What’s a swirl pool?
Me: A WHIRL pool is when the water goes round and round and down – just like that.
D: Oh – I thought it was when a boat has water under it that goes round and SUCKS it down!
Me: Well yes – whirlpools can be in the sea too, but not very often and hardly ever with boats right on top.
D: If there WAS a boat on top, it would get sucked under and a big whale would come along and eat it. That would be scary wouldn’t it?
Me: I guess so, but I don’t think that happens very often at all.
D: I feel sick because I drank too much in the swimming pool. I don’t like one thing about swimming now, when I think about the water.
Me: You’re not meant to drink the swimming pool, you’re meant to keep your mouth shut when you’re under the water!
D: I did!
Me: So how did you drink the water if you had your mouth shut – did you take a straw in?
D: No… That would be silly!
Me: Perhaps you should have a snorkel next time?
D: Yes – that’s it! That’s a GREAT idea!
Me: Well… Snorkels and masks are for learning to dive, and you can’t learn to dive until you can swim a few lengths of the pool, first.
D: But diving‘s not allowed in the swimming pool.
Me: Diving INTO the water’s not allowed, but I’m talking about diving UNDER the water – sub aqua diving. I used to do that – it was great! There’s a whole different world under the sea – like in Finding Nemo, with all kinds of fishes swimming past.
D: Did you want to see a shark?
Me: Only if it was quite far away.
D: I bet you didn’t want to see a HUMPBACK WHALE? They’re the biggest creature in this world!
Me: Only if they were quite far away too.
D: Are they bigger than the sea?
Me: No – otherwise how would they fit IN the sea?!
D: Oh yes.
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