Asteroid Impact
Ty has been on a dinosaur kick for a few weeks. About a year ago, he saw Disney’s Fantasia and saw the T. Rex and Stegosaurus fight. “Mommy, all the dinosaurs are dead, right?” he asked me worriedly.
“Yes, Ty. The dinosaurs died when an asteroid hit the Earth,” I responded. And that was the end of that… then.
Just after Easter, Ty asked me to tell him the story of the asteroid that hit the Earth. I was afraid that such an intense story would give him nightmares or make him worry that another asteroid would hit the Earth again. But he was interested in knowing more about the dead dinosaurs.
He makes a fist and throws it into his palm to demonstrate the force of the rock’s landing when he tells the story. We borrowed some library books on the asteroid impact. He learned how big the asteroid was, the damage a smaller asteroid would make, and the fact that it wasn’t the actual impact but the aftermath that killed most of the dinosaurs. So he isn’t worried too much about the dead dinosaurs anymore. He has asked if some “new dinosaurs” were going to live on Earth, and I assured him that it is highly improbable. And it doesn’t bother him at all that an asteroid hit the Earth. He seems pretty grateful, actually. “The dinosaurs died so new animals can come.”
