5yoS had questions about vaccines today. After a very rudimentary explanation about how little bugs called germs get into our body and our body fights them and remembers them for next time, I decided to let YouTube do the talking.
We watched 6 videos. I'm not sure how much he picked up on, but he enjoyed watching them in any case, and was able to tell me a little bit about the videos when they were finished.
For the record, here's what we watched:
How Your Immune System Works
Immune System
Why You Are Still Alive - The Immune System Explained
Learn Human Body - Immune System
How the Immune System Works
Immune System - Human Organ Systems for Kids
It's interesting that they all had a somewhat different emphasis on how the immune system works. Why You Are Still Alive wasn't as kid centric, but I thoroughly enjoyed that it showed how complex the immune system actually is.
He's continuing to ask what the names of the germs are (virus, bacteria, fungus, and parasite) and what the fighters are called (leukocytes) etc. So if nothing else, he's at least getting exposed to some new terms that will be useful later on.
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