TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG - character S*

Over the past few months, 

I've had an ongoing internal debate about posting and have been leaning in the direction to forget about posting because I should be spending a lot more time on the novel I decided to write.


My writing style has flaws. Try as I might to tame the beast, there are more developing ideas, critical plot changes, character adjustment, and just plain old disasters in what I've already written.
I've tried to jot down important things in a notebook. A week later it largely indecipherable or lost in the margins. I've rewritten my outline at least three times. (I hate to lose anything in that outline that might be important later so I've taken to numbering them.)
I digress (or at least I would if I could spell). 
So this is my latest idea: If I jot down a few words on ideas that I've managed to grab -  before Alzheimer's spirits them away - here in a post, maybe I'll find some order to my efforts.
So the place to start, hopefully, is on the character development of S. In a nutshell, S is currently 4 or 5 years old. Long before he reaches puberty he needs to get an education in science. Science that hasn't been developed yet. I know I'll have to break it to him gently but where do I start? Thank God for copy, paste, and Ctrl Z. 
Speaking of God, I guess I'll list what I have I've done messed up so far and their wrinkles.

1. I thought I'd start with: Science good - Religion passe. (with good reason at that time)
2. Then I apologized tried to apologize to S because he still has to live in what is a real world for him. The apology is mired in coming up with: Science good/critical - Religion necessary critical
3. Some messy stuff: Teaching just enough science and not too much all at once. Or where to start - earth is no longer flat - there is no Fire God. How do I believably convince a 4/5 year old not to tell everyone else in the hunter-gatherer village (not an oxymoron, I've been doing my research) he lives in. Like his father the shaman or his best-friend?
4. Currently, he has to know there is no fire god and he has to know that his Teacher isn't a god either. However, the current (January 2014, North-America) culture's grasp of science probably gives me a lot of latitude. (Big-foot, anti-vacc'sers, global warming deniers, creationists etc.

To be continued:

* It's probably a good idea to keep his name S. It has already changed more time than I care to remember. It's like an idea-wind comes along and suddenly everyone has a new name. Also, shortly before I started this post I realized some of the characters might have the wrong gender (in 2014 I have many to choose from)
Off topic. I hope to introduce the character of his best friend soon.
Off off topic. Please grant some "spelling-error, punctuation-mess" 'cause I gots no time to fix'um. (An damn this Windows 7. It keeps mentioning that it's unable to save a draft of this post. Sh*t!)

Happy motoring - Dennis