Envisaging....

The pictures children have in their heads are different from the pictures adults make in theirs. (Actually, now I think about it, probably us adults all have different pictures going on too...).

Anyway, here's a couple of examples.

We were talking about the solar system, planets etc. Brendon and I joked that Pluto, well, Pluto had been given the chop! Isabelle paused, looked very worried and asked "Were there any people on it?".

Aidan and I were discussing things that were good to throw at Playcentre, and things that were not good. For good, I offered balls and beanbags. Aidan offered (quite seriously) "spades". Not quite what I was envisaging. But then again, as someone else pointed out, he may well have had in mind small plastic spades. Not the large, metallic ones that are most frequently used in the Playcentre sandpit!