I was having tea with a friend yesterday when she related this story (that I absolutely have to share). Her daughter and my son are about the same age, so she did kindergarten assessment this year in preparation for the school she will be attending. The school here (as I'm assuming is true with schools everywhere) "test" the children on many different levels looking for physical as well as mental readiness to start school. One of the logic exercises posed the following to the child: "You go into a room and it's dark in there. What do you do?" Naturally, the response they're looking for is that the child realizes that if it's dark, the lights are out and they should turn on the light switch. But, well, we're in Dhaka. So nothing is quite the same. Her daughter's response? "It's okay. The lights will come back on in a minute." And I suppose when you live life immersed in a world of power outages and generators, that's probably true.
How's that for child logic...
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