Kids and Science

     When kids are young, it is no surprise that they have a distinct interest in science. As stated in the prompt, it can be insects, rocks, dinosaurs etc. I believe that this sparked interest has to do with the high ambition and energy that kids exemplify. When you consider science, especially to those who have little interest in it, the common theme is that it is too complicated and too hard to understand. In its most simplified state, science is the gathering of testable knowledge and study of how things in the universe work. Children, around the preschool age, are in the early development of defining themselves and figuring out the world around them. In a sense, children and science can be defined in a similar way when you consider the developments.
     So what is it that makes kids shift away from science? In my opinion, the key ingredient is the fact that kids continue to define themselves and increase their worldly knowledge as they develop. As that development continues, the knowledge surrounding science proceeds to be more complex. Side by side, humans cannot keep up with the complexity of science. We can only attempt to understand the complexity and make the choice of whether furthering the knowledge is for us or not. People do not lose ambition or energy in science, but as we develop as humans we learn to cope with the world around us surrounding our interests. When you consider when exactly a child loses that interest in science, I believe there is no number or age you can associate with it. People find ways to survive in this world and as that complex issue develops, the interests tend to shift elsewhere. Kids find things to be interesting whether it may be tangible or not but as a child develops, I believe the lack of a grasp on science tends to deter the crowd.
      The lack of interest is the issue that drives scientific writers crazy. I like to call it the "million dollar question". If you could grasp the interest of a child in the general public's view, you would have it all solved. I believe that scientific writers just are not capable of restoring that interest or solving that mystery. Although the development of a human and science is my theory, I believe that the distinct lack of interest is too much for a writer to solve. As I said before, people learn to cope and engulf their time with that. Fitting science into a person's life is something that people do not see tangible results in. Without science resulting in something we can grasp, a writer cannot use his words to spark the interests we once believed in.