Little Blog has learned to swim on her back. But now she is very worried. Her thoughtful expression finally erupts as she turns to Mom.

“Mommy, what is that thing that pulls you to the Earth?”

Mom ponders the question for a moment, before realising Little Blog is not talking about monsters under the bed.

“”Do you mean gravity, Little Blog?”

Little Blog: “Yes,that thing.”

Mom: “What about it, Little Blog?”

Little Blog: “Well, it doesn’t work.”

Mom: “What do you mean, Little Blog?”

Little Blog: “When I float on my back in the pool, if that gravity thing was working, I couldn’t float like that. Otherwise why can I float? Gravity isn’t working.”

(News Flash: Government to probe violation of Laws of Motion)

Today we continue our occasional service from Little Blog, in which she provides logical definitions for illogical terminology, brand names and concepts. Her big sister, Sunshine, once again collaborates, to add her 9 years of wisdom.

This time, Little Blog’s Little Definitions of the Week follow a social media theme, ranging from MySpace to Facebook:
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Now Little Blog has a problem with mainstream medicine. Clearly, in her view, the profession is covering up the terrible symptoms that are beginning to emerge for well-known illnesses.

“Daddy, have I had an injection for chicken’s pop?” she asks.

Dad: “No, Little Blog, why do you ask?”
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First it was Einstein; now it’s Pythagoras and Euclid who come under Little Blog’s critical scrutiny. Geometry as we know it is just not ambitious enough for her world view.

It is that time of morning at nursery school when parents get to spend a little time with their children before class begins, and Little Blog is showing Dad some of the posters on the wall. He stops at one that shows the four key shapes little children are taught.

“What are these shapes called, Little Blog?” Dad asks.

Little Blog is utterly bored with the question, but indulges Dad and identifies the square, circle, rectangle and triangle. Then she sighs:

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Today Little Blog and her big sister, Sunshine, built entire planets. However, they don’t intend going into competition with any other creators of planets, since the only accessory they were able to include was a snake, lovingly crafted by Little Blog.

“Today me and Sunshine made snakes and planets,” explains Little Blog, as Sunshine hops about, desperate to give her version. No such luck when little Blog gets going: “My planet was Earth. It is a real planet and I made it from two paper plates and I coloured it in. The snake I also coloured in and I cut the paper off it so that I had a snake shape. That means planet Earth also has a snake and I made it.”

As she pauses for breath, Sunshine leaps in:



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