Sometimes I think that children are so amazing.
Other times, they drive me completely insane.
However, yesterday was one of those times when my son was being particularly adorable and I was blown away by his humanitarianism. You see, he finally started to understand the seasonal cycle that characterizes our world. Every summer it gets incredibly hot and every winter it gets incredibly cold. We are able to survive all of these temperature changes because we have indoor air temperature control devices, like our air conditioner and furnace. It was the first time that my son has ever been so aware of our human privileges and everything that modern technology has to offer. This is when he also realized that animals do not have access to heating, cooling, and air quality control systems when the weather is nasty. When the air temperature is sky-high, they cannot use air conditioners. When the outdoor air quality takes a turn for the brutally cold and frigid temperatures, animals do not have a way to use fireplaces or furnaces. My son started to get very sad about how uncomfortable all of the animals must be when we do not have a favorable climate and they do not have thermostats. He even started to worry about tiny creatures, all the way down to bugs. He turned it to me at one point and asked – but where do the bugs go if they don’t have any heating systems? That’s what I told him… Well, they like to come into our nice and warm house to use our furnace. Immediately, in that moment, my son stopped caring so much about the cold bugs and told me that was disgusting. Kids.