Sunday, January 18, 2009

Six steps to successful worm dissection

1. Make sure everyone's done eating.

Trust me on this.


2. One cheerful Mom.

What FUN we'll have today!


3. One unenthusiastic Dad.

Yippee.


4. One reluctant daughter reads partial directions to Dad.

"Our butter knives are sharper than this."


4a. Daughter quickly flees, and Dad figures his job is done.

"Formaldehyde GROSSES me out."
(Not to mention 10-inch long dead worms, I'm sure.)



5. Add in one eager younger brother.

Trevor can't wait to dig in.


6. SUCCESS!!!

"Mom, can *I* do this science next year?!"


Oh sure. We can't wait.


Thankfully, dissections are done for this year.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW! That is the part of homeschooling that I dread the most.

Debbie said...

ROTFLOL...you guys are cracking me up! You all need to come on up to our house...something is always being disected, inspected, poked or prodded.

We just love science!

berrypatch said...

I plan to send my boys to Deb's house when we get to this point. LOL

Jana said...

oh, yuck. I'm so glad I signed my boy up for biology lab co-op this year so he'll do those with a mom who's a nurse and doesn't get grossed out. I'd be over with your daughter!

Donna said...

I loved dissecting WAY back in high school! Can't wait to see if I can still do it without puking. lol.

Kristine said...

Gee, Donna. You managed the SQUIRREL just fine. I think you'll be okay. :P

Donna said...

No, I only took PICTURES of the squirrel. I thought Luke skinned and gutted it, but all he did was carry it inside. And take pictures of the guts. We're a bunch of wimps. Mark did all the gross-ness. He can be in charge of dissections. He'll do fine.

Cynthia said...

LOL! That's how it is here at our house as well. The BOYS love that kind of stuff and the girls are totally grossed out.