As mentioned before, Jack has been very interested in telling time, and he's doing a terrific job at it. Today we reviewed whole hours and half hours on a face clock, of which he has almost licked.He may have just earned himself the "Stumped Mom" award over spaghetti dinner tonight when he asked:
"Mom? Why do they have an "O" in one o'clock?"
I have no stinkin' idea. Anyone know what the point of the "O" is when telling time? Was the person who invented telling time in the English language, Irish?? Or before we got technical and exact about everything, did people used to say, "Oh, it is about one.", and things have just been rearranged over the centuries. :)
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