Poo; a family home evening discussion.

Olivia has been very interested lately in where toilet water goes once we flush the toilet. So, I asked Jaron if he could give us a little lesson on water for family night last Monday night. The lesson, though filled with lots of information and a few difficult concepts, was a huge success with the kids. Normally we have to coax them into paying attention to our lessons by using lots of pictures, enthusiastic voice inflections, and flailing our arms and limbs around like big baboons to get them to pay attention, but not for this lesson. Jaron sat coolly on the couch as he explained where toilet water goes, how it is treated, and how hydrology works.

The word poo and pee were used a lot, which kept Warner enthralled. Finally! A lesson he can relate to.

A few favorite moments during the lesson were:

1. When Jaron was explaining the process of water evaporating into the air and becoming vapor, Liv said, "But water can't fly!" But vapor can, exclaimed Jaron.

2. My favorite part of the lesson, by far, is when Jaron was talking about what happens to the poo- water at the S.T.P (sewage treatment plant) also known as "the poo factory". Liv was absolutely disgusted when Jaron explained that the poo-water is cleaned by little bacteria that eat the poo. Her eyes widened, and she through back her head, covered her mouth, and whilst gasping yelled "But why!".

All the while Warner is chanting "Yea, eat poo. They eat the poo. They eat the poo!"

After Jaron explained the hydro logic cycle to us, showed us where our closest poo factory was on google earth, and demonstrated evaporation/precipitation with a pot of boiling water the lesson was over. While he shoved a sugar doodle in his mouth, we asked Warner what he learned from the lesson and he happily exclaimed "Poo is sunny!"

So there you have it folks. Poo is sunny.