Of Earthquakes and Toddlers

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Last Friday, while lying down on the bed with my legs up on the wall (suggested by a friend to minimize varicose veins), the earth suddenly shook.  I knew it was an earthquake.  Believing it was an ordinary earthquake, I just continued to lie down.  However, after a few seconds, the earthquake became stronger and I had to shout "Earthquake!".

I panicked!  I grabbed my eldest and my husband grabbed our youngest, and we both rushed outside our house.  It was outside the house where my husband discovered that we were carrying the wrong toddlers.  Lol! Talk about panic.  You see, our youngest is quite big for his age.  He's 3 but he wears size 5T clothing.  On the other hand, the clothe size of our eldest is age appropriate 3T.  So when carrying our toddlers, we have this unspoken rule that I should carry the eldest and he should carry the youngest.

And the kids were asking, "Ma, anong gawa natin dito sa labas?" I answered, "Earthquake, nak."  And you know how they both answered, "Asan si earthquake Ma?  Where's earthquake?"  I had to explain, "Earthquake is when the earth is moving."  This made them quiet for some time but they again asked, "Asan si earthquake Mama?".

And so, how do you explain earthquakes to 3 year old toddlers?

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  1. DeviSeptember 7, 2012 at 2:34 PM

    ask them if they felt an unusual move, like they got dizzy. but if they playing, they would not probably notice it. the best thing to explain it ianne, is showing them in a docu or something :)

    what i did? i packed some stuff for saree in case. talk about paranoid.

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