Kyleigh's Story - Daddy's Essay

This article is posted with my husband's permission.

My husband is currently taking some college classes. This is his assignment for last week:

"Write a paragraph in response to the activity, "Apply the Scientific Method to Everyday Life," found in part 4 of the Scientific Method Tutorial. Use the questions found in the activity to guide your response (What is your hypothesis? How will you test that hypothesis? Based on the result of this test, what are your conclusions?)."

And here is his response. Pardon for his poor grammar but I thought it was hilarious.

"I am not smart enough to do this but my 16-month-old daughter is. So let me tell you her story. Her observation was that every time she walked to close to the bathroom mommy and daddy would say a one syllable word loudly and keep saying it until she moved away. Her hypothesis was that when getting close to the bathroom mommy and daddy say a one-syllable word. To test this hypothesis she would mover her foot to the edge of the bathroom, when still not touching the boundary mommy and daddy would remain quiet. Once the boundary is touched, boom! the one syllable word again. Ok, next would be to try to use a finger, slowly moving her finger to the boundary she came up with the same result. As a result of these two experiments she discovered that moving her fingers or toes into the bathroom would result in a single loud syllable uttered by mommy and daddy."

Disclaimer: Kyleigh is only 15 months old. And I don't disallow her to go into the bathroom now. It was a rule meant for when she was younger.

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