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defacto7

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4. I used to show my kids an example why they shouldn't

Reply to lunamagica (Original post)

Mon Aug 21, 2017, 01:18 AM

Aug 2017

look at the sun. I get out the old magnifying glass and point it at a piece of paper while indoors where they can see an image on it. Ooo, ahhh... Then we go outside and I point the sun through the magnifying glass at the same paper. As the paper starts to burn I remind them that their eyes work like magnifying glasses. They get the point.

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I used to show my kids an example why they shouldn't defacto7 Aug 2017 #4

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YES!!!!!! vicman Aug 2017 #6

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