http://blog.famundo.com/articles/2007/03/25/conversations-with-my-11-year-old en-us 40 <p>11 is really a great age. Not yet a teenager. Not a kid any longer. There is something really refreshing about an 11-year old mind. It&#8217;s not jaded, it asks real questions.</p> <p>This morning my daughter told me she hated daylight savings time. Quite surprised, I asked her why? She told me that when her mom tells her to go to bed, it is still light outside. A valid point. I remember when I was her age, I grew up in an area when it didn’t&#8217; get dark until close to 10:00 PM and I felt the same resentment.</p> <p>She asked me why we had daylight savings time. I told her that it was supposed to save energy, since it is light longer in the evening so we don&#8217;t have to turn on the lights.</p> <p>She said, but don&#8217;t we have to turn the lights on when we get up in the morning?</p> <p>True, we didn&#8217;t have to turn on the lights in the morning before; it was light when we got up, so it probably doesn&#8217;t save much energy.</p> <p>Then I asked her if she knew who invented daylight savings time. Of course, she said, everyone knows that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight savings time.</p> <p>Well, I said, maybe the invented daylight savings time so you can play outside longer in the summer.</p> <p>Dad, she said, they didn&#8217;t play when Benjamin Franklin was alive.</p> Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:26:00 -0400 urn:uuid:f784b60f-3cf3-4811-8ff6-88db3dc7db0c richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) http://blog.famundo.com/articles/2007/03/25/conversations-with-my-11-year-old Family Life