Are you smarter than a second grader?

Day 57

When my family came back to the States for furlough in 2002 and I flew back to PA for a visit, I figured it would be a good time to catch up on the fulfillment of my sister-ly duties, which obviously included imparting my vast stores of wisdom to my younger siblings.

A great opportunity presented itself when we came back from the library one afternoon with our laundry basket full of books, and I settled down on the couch with then 8-year-old Daniel to puruse a children’s book on ancient Greece. As we were reading about various historical figures, Pythagoras came up.

“He was an important mathematician,” I told my brother, “He discovered an important equation called the Pythagorean theorem.” I was about to continue my explanation, but before I could –

“Oh, yeah, ” Daniel said, very matter-of-factly, “a² + b² = c².”

Good gravy. I think I was still at the this-is-how-you-color-inside-the-lines stage when I was in second grade.

Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

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