Beta Mum's Blog Beta Mum on 02 Feb 2009 10:58 pm
Hope for the future?
I’m a fan of lateral thinking puzzles, and now my children like them too.
You know the kind of thing - a man, a puddle of water and a measuring tape.
The children were reading them out to each other, when Ben was offered this little gem…
A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured.
When he gets there, the surgeon says, ‘I can’t operate on this boy - for he is my son!!!’
How can this possibly be?
If you don’t know the answer, stop and think.
If you do…
I remember a time when I found this a tough one to answer.
But Ben (who’s ten) said -
“The dad’s dead, so the surgeon must be his mum. What’s so hard about that?”
What a star, unsullied by the preconceptions of a previous generation.
It seems my hard work and indoctrination has had some impact since the day he said on the way to school -
“But a woman can’t be prime minister.”
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on 04 Feb 2009 at 1:39 am 1.Iota said …
I wonder why he thinks that. Intriguing.
on 04 Feb 2009 at 10:23 pm 2.Beta Mum said …
Maggie Thatcher was before his time, I guess. At that time he thought only men did Big Important jobs. I hope he now knows different!