"they may be able to look back on their practical experience tagging along with Dad on his experiment and it may make more sense." I can say that has been the

"they may be able to look back on their practical experience tagging along with Dad on his experiment and it may make more sense." I can say that has been the case for me personally. I was shown lots of cool stuff when I was a kid, I didn't completely understand it then, but I have been able to look back on past experiences to help me make sense of concepts I ran across again later.