Some days I just wonder about my children and what goes through their heads. The other day while waiting for the bus, the oldest asks me why the earth doesn’t burn up from the center outwards. I have one of those *blink” moments trying to figure out where this came from. I hear the youngest say something about lava and the heat of the center of the earth. Ohhhhhhhhh… Brain is still not kicking in but at least I don’t have to worry about term life insurance prices at Wholesale Insurance because the earth is going to blow up. Then again, I could not for the life of me remember why we aren’t one big ball of lava. Why are we cooler out here? My brain went to water and said something on those lines. Maybe it was the water that kept us cool… Then the oldest came up with … the rain cycle. The rain goes into the earth, helps keep it cool and then goes into the clouds to come down again. Makes sense to me.

Now I have to explain how when you get further away from the heat source it gets cooler and how even though the heat is contained under the mantel and crust… oh this just isn’t going to go well is it? Guess I’ll hit the science books tonight.

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