Child play is crucial for children's development.
It helps them understand the world around them,
master skills through repetitive actions,
and develop valuable traits such as sharing and listening.
Gabriel and Olivia are at the age where they sometimes play together.
Gabriel, while playing house with Olivia, asked me,
"Do you know what animal has the most teeth in the world?"
I didn’t know, and I assumed that a sailfish was probably the answer since we had talked about Sailfish and other sea creatures.
Nonchalantly, he replied, "No,"
I asked him if he knew.
Gabriel giggled, and without looking up from his playing, he said,
“The animal that has the most teeth in the world is a mouse because he collects all the teeth from all the children in the world.” He delivered his joke with flawless timing. I was impressed at how he told it as if it wasn't a joke that he knew without knowing that timing is essential (something I have never mastered) and that he knew he was telling a joke.
How darling he can see the Tooth Mouse with all the children's teeth and believe it even though he hasn't lost any teeth yet. Wait until he hears that it is a Tooth Fairy in the USA.
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For the record:
"A garden snail has about 14,000 teeth, while other species can have over 20,000. But that's not even the most shocking part: The teeth of an aquatic snail called the limpet are the most potent known biological material on Earth, stronger than titanium." wiki.
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