Great lesson

By sciencesadness - 08/02/2014 23:24 - United States - Lynnwood

Today, a robin flew into my window and died. My mom, being a biology teacher, thought it would be a great experience for my brother and me to dissect it on the kitchen table. She threatened to ground us if we didn't do it. FML
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Same thing different taste

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DedicatedNova 13

My mom is a science teacher. I feel your pain OP.

Good experience for when you have to do it in school but that's still horrifying. FYL.

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I think your mom takes learning about the birds and the bees a little too seriously!

It's a good thing to encourage your kids to learn about science. Encourage though, not force.

Seeing as how your mother is a biology teacher, she should be aware of the filth and disease wild birds can spread. I hope she sanitized it before making you two dissect it... it could have had fleas.

I remember when i was 6 or 7 years old, and i asked my mother where babies came from, and she took me, and my sisters to work, where i saw 3 c-sections... and today i am almost graduation from med school. I fell in love with science and medicine in a very young age. So, it could be a good experience for OP.

What? She took you and your sisters into people's operating rooms while they gave birth? Seems invasive.

probably one of those side rooms for med students

Epikouros 31

Wonderful story. It would be ironic if you became a forensic pathologist. Or a proctologist.

I wouldn't be complaining! I always loved dissecting animals in school. I don't understand why a lot of people don't like it.

Because it's cutting open a dead animal! If op is an animal lover, or hurls easy, this could be horrifying.