What did you learn today?

My boyfriend and I have this thing we do pretty regularly. Being both huge advocates of continuing education, every now and then we present the question: "What did you learn today?" It makes for interesting dinner conversation and helps the kids tell us what they learned at school as well. Somehow when they hear us discuss what we learned, it compels them to answer with something more than a blank stare and an "I don't remember?"

There are days when the topic of discussion is quite interesting and intellectual. Other times it might be political in nature, or derived from something we heard on a talk radio program while driving home from work. More often than not though, we come up with the oddball random bit of information useful only for a good game of trivial pursuit. Lastly, there's the painfully obvious things we know as adults, yet the kids still need to learn by doing so the hard way. It's these frustrating yet entertaining pieces of knowledge that I like to share with you guys from time to time if for anything other than my own comic relief.

Here's a few things my son learned yesterday:
1. You can't put cat litter in a toilet bowl. It turns to concrete and clogs up the commode.
2. You can't try to flush the problem away, because concrete is impregnable to water
leaving it no where to go but up... and out.
3. It's not a good idea to use the toilet scrub brush to clean the water and solidified kitty
litter off of the floor. It will just smear it around like chocolate on a white silk dress...
4. New toilet bowl scrubbers cost $3.99 at Walmart
5. Beta fish are easier than cats.
6. It's important to keep the cat away from the Beta fish.
7. Hamsters are easy too and like to roll around in little plastic balls.
8. Hamsters don't know how to stop at the top of a flight of stairs.
9. It's important to keep hamsters in little plastic balls on the ground level.
10.keep them away from curious cats that like to play with balls that magically roll around on
their own while you're at it..

You get the idea?.It's something you might want to try at home yourself with your family.

Learn something everyday from some one, some thing or about yourself. Look for the lesson in all you do and from all you meet. When you open your eyes and ears and listen with your heart, it's amazing at the knowledge you will acquire and the conversations that will develop.

The more I learn the more I realize I don't know anything.

You'll do well to take our word for it on the kitty litter thing though.