“Mom, are spiders insects?” Sophie asks. Inquisitive by nature, my five-year-old is now a month into kindergarten and wants to know everything.



“Yup,” I say.


“Actually, they’re not,” she informs me with what sounds suspiciously like a sneer.


“They’re not?” I ask.


“Nope,” says the little know-it-all. (Well she did just totally set me up.) “Insects only have six legs. Spiders have eight, so they’re arachnids.”


“Insects have six legs?” I ask, wondering where she’s getting her information.



Is this what she’s learning in kindergarten? Really?


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