Perhaps I haven’t mentioned this yet, but we’re secular homeschoolers. We’re a very research-oriented, science-oriented, “spiritual, but not religious” family. In that spirit, we are using BCE/CE, not BC/AD, for dates on our timeline and other history work.
My mother came to pick up The Tank (our three year old) while we were putting dates on our timeline. I thought my mother, with her background in biology and chemistry, would appreciate our use of BCE/CE, so I prompted Captain Science to explain it to her. He remembered that BC stood for “before Christ,” but couldn’t immediately remember what BCE meant (he guess “before Christ’s era”).
We talked, again, about why some people use BC and others use BCE. When asked why some people would use BC, “before Christ,” he answered, “Because of religion.”
When asked why we used BCE, “before common era,” the Captain looked thoughtful for a moment, and then answered, “Because we’re common?”
Well, yeah…but we’s good people.
Awww…You don’t hang all of your diapers off the front porch.
Seriously, I’m loving this blog. I get to live vicariously through you while not grading the papers.
I do hang them out in the yard on a metal IKEA drying rack (and, ok…I have been known to drape a few diapers over the porch railing when the sun is good).