One of my favorite things about being a parent is that I'm constantly learning fascinating facts about the world - stuff that I normally would not be exposed to.
My child's current obsession? Drawing flags.
So yesterday I bought her a book about flags and we learned about the #Wiphala (her favorite flag in the book) - "a square emblem commonly used as a flag to represent some native peoples of the Andes."
Find out more about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiphala
#TIL
Rodrigo Pio
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •that's so true, we learn a lot from our little ones. My son is also a lot into flags, real and imaginary! He went as far as putting a page in his website that shows a random flag each day (he's 8 and this is his HTML, CSS and JavaScript code): randoms.neocities.org/random-f…
Thank you for sharing, he'll love to learn about this one, so unique!
Random Flag Widget
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in reply to Kailas Idavanmuzhi • • •@saliaku haha thanks! now I feel compelled to share with you my favorite bit of trivia that I learned thanks to my little one.
maybe you know this already, but here we go: astronauts on the ISS see the sun rise and set 16 times a day... because it takes the ISS just an hour and a half to complete an orbit around the Earth 🤗
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •further down it mentions Aymara people, so not some, but at least one specific group. Very wired wording
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •As pensioned volunteer, I did a museum-shift with a colleague last year. 20 klm North of Amsterdam.On a very quiet Sunday in winter.
A boy came in, we estimated him around 18 yr. Talking for 2.5 hours about his hobbies. One of them ¨flags".
Some villages in the area merged some years ago, called Zaanstad. One of the villages , Koog aan de Zaan, never had it's own flag, while the others had. The boy designed a flag, accepted by the local administration last year.
He was just 14:🙂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •"building a whole village - hospital, hairdresser, school, airport, pizzeria, etc."
Ooooh... the nostalgic feels! 😁
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I did those buildings when I was little and had pretty much totally forgotten about them. Funny how memories can come back at random!
Thank you for that!
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •honestly this is one of those things absolutely excited me about having kids. I was looking forward to the "why" questions. I know so many parents get annoyed, but I see it as an opportunity to learn more about the world as well and it's super exciting! Except when it's like:
Don't play with the toilet!
Why?
Because it's dirty and gross from pee and poo!
Why?
Because you pee and poo in there!
lol
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