Precocious Kids

There is no doubt kids are smarter than they used to be. I mean I was probably twelve years old before I had any idea where babies came from. Nowadays kids know all this before they ever go to school. I reckon there are good things about all this. Yet I have a doubt or two about jumping into life too soon. We were content with a stick and wet dirt to draw in, now children have easels, paints, and brushes to experiment with. We used to take a wooden block and use it as a car or airplane and we supplied our own sound effects. Now kids have motorized toys that duplicate the noise of the real thing. Yesterday in the cafe I overheard two kids talking to grownups. One little girl who must have been no more than four years old overheard her mamma say she was unaware of something that had happened. The little girl said, "Where are you from? Mars?" The she proceeded to tell us Mars was a planet. A little boy across at another table kept staring into his glass of milk. After a period of time he looked up and said, "You know the first man that milked a cow must have been really sick."Me thinks they think too much.