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Science Project

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Montco Mommy

The Mommy Professor

Our Montco Mommy learns that when your little one enters the science fair, it's mom who becomes the scientist.

I loved doing science projects. Despite my ultimate decision to focus a career on writing and editing, I was really good with, and enjoyed figuring out, science and math problems. I’m glad I enjoyed it oh so long ago, because it has come back into my house to "haunt" me. And here, I thought I was done with elementary school myself. Turns out, I was just getting started. Each year my son begs and begs to enter the science fair. As he is only in first grade, what he says is “Mom, can you help me do a project?” What I hear is, “Mom, you have a science project to get done!” This year’s big show was just last week. My son is very into “science,” more accurately at this point meaning blowing things up, seeing reactions, testing things – he loves…

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