stages of time
Last week I was talking with my 5 year old niece. She wanted me to go outside and play. I told her I would “later”. She said she’d be gone by then (apparently kids know what “later” means to adults).
I told her I couldn’t go “now” but that wasn’t good enough for her. So I had to explain that time (present and future) can be in one of 4 places:
- now
- after now
- before later
- later
We decided to go outside “before later”. Truth be told, I think we went out “after now”.
