When I was 8 or 9, I came across my preschool “yearbook”, which had a section where they wrote down something each kid had said about their parents. One kid had said “my father is 10, and my mother is 5.” That boggled my mind, and the only conclusion I could come up with is that both parents had been born in leap years on Feb 29th and only counted their birthdays every 4 years, making the father actually 40, and the mother actually 20. I never stopped to consider that preschoolers don’t understand long time periods, and that the preschool teacher may have put that in the yearbook because it was cute, not because it was true.
