The Human Body
Reading a children's book explaining the human body to my five year old I got to witness how his little brain processes the information and makes sense of it.
"Oh so the muscles go over the bones and that's what makes you strong and then the skin goes over top of that!" he said as his eye widened.
As parents, we have a mission to lead our sons to become doctors, if they fall short of that and become lawyers or YouTuber's, well, we tried our best. We do this in subtle- buy family memberships to the Edmonton Telus Science Center, put posters of the Periodic Table and Anatomy in the playroom, and the not-so-subtle way, of telling them, "You will be doctors!"
We then watched the very classic, The Magic School Bus, episode when the class goes on a field trip into Ralphie's body. Ralphie is staying home from school because he is ill and the teacher decides it would be for the benefit of the entire class to load into the bus and travel inside Ralphie's body to see how his cells fight off the flu virus. It's a pretty intense episode to say the least. My 7 year old figures it's probably the most graphic episode in the entire collection.
My 7 year old son asks with great intent, "You wouldn't let my class do that to me, right?"
My response, "I don't think your Papa would let that happen. They are violating a lot of legal and ethical rules." What else can I say? That whole class would probably benefit from years of therapy for all of the things they have seen and done.
Amid this COVID pandemic, I can say that I am thankful for the health of my body and my family's. Seeing some families deal with the death of loved ones, not even from COVID, is tragic. Not being able to have a "regular" funeral service as the Alberta Health rules do not allow gatherings of more than 15 people. So much closure, not resolved. Feeling that the person passing may be forgotten even faster than normal and not celebrated for the life they lead.
I never did exceptionally well in Science classes in high school, but I am still intrigued with the human body. Over the past couple of months, as soon as Big Dragon gets home from work I have been going on very long walks, basically walking the outskirts of the town of Westlock (clocking 10-12km). I find these walks good for my body and great for my soul. Lately, I have been listening to the Podcast called This Podcast Will Kill You, where two scientists, Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke, (both disease ecologists and epidemiologists) talk about various diseases in great detail. How the disease effects your body, the treatment for it and the history of that disease. It is very good and I highly recommend it. Be good to your body and "Wash your hands, you filthy animals!"
Reading a children's book explaining the human body to my five year old I got to witness how his little brain processes the information and makes sense of it.
"Oh so the muscles go over the bones and that's what makes you strong and then the skin goes over top of that!" he said as his eye widened.
As parents, we have a mission to lead our sons to become doctors, if they fall short of that and become lawyers or YouTuber's, well, we tried our best. We do this in subtle- buy family memberships to the Edmonton Telus Science Center, put posters of the Periodic Table and Anatomy in the playroom, and the not-so-subtle way, of telling them, "You will be doctors!"
We then watched the very classic, The Magic School Bus, episode when the class goes on a field trip into Ralphie's body. Ralphie is staying home from school because he is ill and the teacher decides it would be for the benefit of the entire class to load into the bus and travel inside Ralphie's body to see how his cells fight off the flu virus. It's a pretty intense episode to say the least. My 7 year old figures it's probably the most graphic episode in the entire collection.
My 7 year old son asks with great intent, "You wouldn't let my class do that to me, right?"
My response, "I don't think your Papa would let that happen. They are violating a lot of legal and ethical rules." What else can I say? That whole class would probably benefit from years of therapy for all of the things they have seen and done.
Amid this COVID pandemic, I can say that I am thankful for the health of my body and my family's. Seeing some families deal with the death of loved ones, not even from COVID, is tragic. Not being able to have a "regular" funeral service as the Alberta Health rules do not allow gatherings of more than 15 people. So much closure, not resolved. Feeling that the person passing may be forgotten even faster than normal and not celebrated for the life they lead.
I never did exceptionally well in Science classes in high school, but I am still intrigued with the human body. Over the past couple of months, as soon as Big Dragon gets home from work I have been going on very long walks, basically walking the outskirts of the town of Westlock (clocking 10-12km). I find these walks good for my body and great for my soul. Lately, I have been listening to the Podcast called This Podcast Will Kill You, where two scientists, Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke, (both disease ecologists and epidemiologists) talk about various diseases in great detail. How the disease effects your body, the treatment for it and the history of that disease. It is very good and I highly recommend it. Be good to your body and "Wash your hands, you filthy animals!"
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