Cooper: Mommy, do you know how they found America?
Me: How?
Cooper: They sent 3 boats to Asia, but it wasn’t actually Asia. It was America!
Me: [stifled laughter] Yep, that’s pretty much what happened.
Charlotte: Who discovered America?
Me: Well the Native Americans already lived here so there wasn’t really a discovery, but the Europeans finally realized there were the North and South American continents. They used to think the world was flat, so they were afraid to take a boat on the water in case they fell off the end of the Earth. Then they realized the world was round and a lot bigger than they thought.
Charlotte: What? The world is round! It’s a globe! It’s not flat!
Me: Remember how it looks flat when you stand at the ocean?
Cooper: But it’s not really flat and America isn’t really Asia.
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