The toy dinosaur conundrum

Tyler has a few dinosaurs that he likes to take around with him. One of them is the famous T-Rex the other is the long neck dinosaur. I had been telling him the dinosaur was an Apatosaurus after I saw the name used on one of his tv shows. But Mike suggested we make sure that's what the dinosaur was so we wouldn't confuse him.

So we just spent twenty minutes online looking up long necked dinosaurs so we would know the proper name to call this certain dinosaur. It turns out its a Brachiosaurus which took much deliberation and scrutiny to figure out. We also went a little further to learn more about them and what era his two dinosaurs are from. And by the way Jurrasic Park the movie was inaccurate because the T-Rex is from the crustacean period, not the Jurrasic like the Brachiosaurus.

I did not wake up this morning expecting to delve into dinosaur knowledge but here I am relearning some of what I'm sure I learned in grade school. I do this all for my kids. I want them to know things. I want to know things. I want to be able to say yeah I taught my kid that. I don't want to be one of those parents who stares at their kids homework and is like uh duh. I'm sure I will be one of those anyway but I will at least do what I can to prevent that from happening. And if it means spending an extra few minutes looking up dinosaurs or the proper names of clouds and so on then so be it.

And maybe, just maybe. If I do all this research on my own some of it will stick this time so I'm not relearning everything over and over because seriously it's so annoying!