Kids and dinosaurs

[yakalskovich]

My mother told me on the phone last night that my Little Lady's littlest brother has started mainlining dinosaurs, and that she's got all my old dinosaur books from the attic for him -- which is why she told me, as I have sometimes protested against her disposing of my surviving childhood possessions; I want to have a say in which kiddie gets the things I used to love.

I approve of that, though. It's the same little fellow who's into Vikings, too. He knows all the dinosaur names on his collecting cards even though he can't even read -- he's only four! He can say 'pachycephalosaurus' without batting an eyelash, while my mother had difficulties with the name when she told me. (He had been wondering why the pachycephalosaurus skull shield/bony forehead was green in one book, and red in another.)

But what is it with kids and dinosaurs? I know greater minds than mine have been pondering the question, but as he's one of ours, it gets additional significance for me.-

Comments

[arkadyevna.livejournal.com]

I was totally obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid! I think it had something to do with the idea that these huge creatures, so totally unlike anything on earth today, were once the predominant species. I think it was also the first time that I had a true sense of the length of earth's history. I don't know if that's what does it for most kids, though.

[yakalskovich]

The Little Lady and her middle brother don't get these phases of being fascinated by stuff like the youngest gets. I do suspect him of being the cleverest of the three...

Yes, if I try and remember my own dinosaur phase ages ago, it was the fact that the entire earth used to be totally different an enormous time ago. I did then go on to mesozoic fauna, pre-modern humans, and human history, arriving at the early middle ages (Teja's time, and Teja's canon) about five or six years of my dinosaur phase.-

[bitchy-brat.livejournal.com]

My littlest one is completely fascinated with a show on Public Broadcasting here called Dinosaur Train. Not sure if it's available to you there, but there is a website here for the poking about. It could be a little babyish for him though, but still a little informative.

[yakalskovich]

It's very cute.

Unfortunately, the little fellow doesn't know any English yet...

[bitchy-brat.livejournal.com]

Oh! I didn't even take that into consideration :( Stupid American that I am...