We were leaving the YMCA last night and I asked Beth how her first day of volunteering went.
“Great!” she said.
“Why did you decide to volunteer here?” I asked, thinking of yesterday’s post.
“I wanted to give something back to the community and this was the first place I thought of since we come all the time.”
My heart swelled.
Later, she asked me an interesting question. “Why is it significant the Earth doesn’t cool very much at night?”
“Well, think about it,” I said. “Why do they call CO2 a greenhouse gas?”
“I get it. The Earth has energy in the form of heat all day, not just when the sun is up. It can’t cool after the sun goes down because the heat absorbed during the day can’t escape back into space at night either.”
Although the subject of the last conversation continues to depress me, overall, it was a good day to be a parent. I’ve been a good influence after all.
Now, if there was just some way we could get adults to catch up to the accumulated wisdom of a fourteen year old.