Jumping to absolutes

I love the brain of a young child... The absolute certainty of a fact being the way it is.  I had a 7 year old, a 5 year old, a 4 year old, and a 3 year old in my van.  There was a fire on the mountain and they all declared that the smoke meant that there was a volcano and that it was about to "explode".  They said that there was going to be a lot of lava and that we'd all burn and die.  Then they calmly told each other that the lava would melt your bones and your heart and then "we wouldn't be able to do anything."  It makes me wonder how ofter we jump to conclusions about things that aren't so.