Kids say the darndest things, right?

Art Linkletter ask a 5 or 6 year old child, the son of an attorney to explain the different between unlawful and illegal.

The child explained that unlawful meant against the law and that illegal was a sick bird.

When my youngest was 4 he came up to me after playing with his Lego for about 3 hours. He said, “Mom when I grow up I want to marry a lonely woman.” I was a bit surprised by this statement and managed to say, “And why a lonely woman?” He answered, “So I could keep her company.”

I gave a gentle laugh because I was surprised the depth of his comment. He got mad at me and wouldn’t talk to me for a couple of hours. With my head down I went and deposited $20 in his therapy jar.

@tranquilsea How sweet and sensitive of him!

@Dr_Lawrence I know! I have a feeling he had been thinking about that the whole time he was building his village. I had a bad response and still feel guilty about it. In my defence: you don’t expect something like that to come out of a 4 year old’s mouth!

@tranquilsea The “bad response to it” that you mentioned; his interpretation, or yours? You know, sometimes we laugh and say something, then think twice about it – but meanwhile he just heard a laugh (which sounds nice) and went about his way. I know guys usually do, at any age.

What were we talking about?

You see. I’m on to the next question already.

Women. Can’t understand ‘em, can’t live with ‘em – but can’t live without ‘em either.

@zenele Oh no he was mad when I laughed. He thought I was making fun of him when my laugh was exactly the opposite.

To this day, when we all sing along in the car or something, we sing I can see clearly now the rain has gone…

The second verse originally had “I can see all obstacles in my way.”

The kids used to mistakenly say “popsicles.” We have left it in.

I have another one from my daughter. When she was about 7 she started to try on bigger words and often she didn’t know exactly what they meant. One night, around the kitchen table, she was telling us a story about a girl at school who had brought “titillating walnuts” to school. I have the feeling she was reaching for tantalizing but seriously missed.

We all still have a great laugh about that one.

Omg, zenele, like always, I lurve you mucho! I used to say that too- popsicles.

I remember once when I was with my baby sister and I was telling her how I was afraid of the dark. She is also afraid of the dark which seemed a little weird when she told me, “don’t worry, God is always with you.”

I asked my little daughter, age 4ish (it was ages ago) whether to turn off the light or not. Nope. And the night light? Nope. Aren’t you afraid? Nope – God is here always with me.

Yup – but you can keep the light on til you fall asleep anyways.

She says: Maybe God wants to sleep too so better turn out the light.

B“H for little girls

what’s B“H?

It’s short for Be-ezrat Hashem, with the help of God – but figuratively speaking it’s Thank the Lord.

ohhh, yeah, thank the Lord for little girls and children in general.
This is a great question Zen!

Thanks hugs. Hugs.

My little 8 year-old asked her mother what Chinese dialect she speaks, and she answered “Fukien”. “Mommy, you speak a language that swears!”, replied my daughter. Sigh! Lol.

My lovely, innocent nephew asked me two questions in his youth that will never be forgotten.

1.) We were playing with some of his toys, and he asks, “Aunt Pied, are you a parent or a child?” (I was neither.)

2.) We were at his grandmother’s house, and I took him up to his mother’s old bedroom to put him down for a nap. He glanced over at the dresser and saw a photo of his mother in her wedding gown. His mouth opened, eyes grew wide, and he whispered, “I didn’t know that my mother was a princess”

My aunt got pregnant via an egg donor, so my cousin’s conception was in an exam room. A few months later, my mom walked in on 3 year old me in the afternoon, just lying on my back on my bed, not taking a nap or anything. She asked me what I was doing, and I said “making a baby.”

My family was at the zoo, when my daughter was about 5 years old.
My Mom pointed at an animal and said “Oooohhh, look at that tiger!”
My daughter looked, and told my Mom “Sometimes I call them Leopards!”
My Mom looked again, and sure enough, it was a leopard! My daughters’ gentle correction of my Mom became a family story retold many times.

@zenele by the way, why the Denny Crane avatar?

My neighbor has a two year old girl that has a cute, semi-arrogant attitude. remember, she is just two years old. her mother had prepared a tub bath for her. sitting on the commode and watching her daughter, this is what came out of her daughter’s mouth…............................

“You can leave now, i will be out-of-pocket for a while”.

Needles to say we all died laughing, when our neighbor told us this.

A few days ago I’d been grocery shopping with the kids. When we got home, the oldest two ran into the house, but my five year old stood next to the front door waiting for me. My hands were full of groceries, so I said, “Could you please open the door for me?” He stands directly in front of the door, looks me up and down, and says, “Hold on. I have to make sure you’re on the list.” He consulted his palm for a second while I tried to decide if I should drop the grocery bags on him, yell at him, or laugh. Luckily he quickly said, “OK, you’re on the list,” and opened the door.

One of my nephews once gave my mother a homemade birthday card that read “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU OLDE FARTE.” He was probably about seven years old at the time (he’s nineteen now), which would’ve put my mother somewhere in her late 40s. That kid is still comedy gold.

@MacBean When I was 8, I gave my aunt a card that said “Happy 40th” for her 40th birthday. She burst into tears. I just couldn’t understand why… After that, my mom started checking the cards first to make sure they were appropriate.

@papayalily: On my fifteenth birthday, my sister thought it would be fun to tease me for being halfway to thirty. Apparently, she forgot that my halfway-to-thirtieth birthday meant that her actual thirtieth birthday was just a month away. I reminded her. She was less than amused. :D

@MacBean Very nice, I approve.

we all are kids!

When i was coaching, it was almost half time, and my son (then 4 years old) was sitting beside me on the bench and he said, “Dad, i got to go!” I responded and said, “son hold it, it is almost half time!” Oh my gosh, i looked down at him and, sure enough, he was holding it. Made me feel real bad! The manager took him to the bathroom quickly!

My son, who is 29, just thanked us for the “invaluable help” we have been during this period of their moving back from Europe to the States. Not cutesie but so wonderful!

My son will be 2 in August.

The other night we went to a restaurant that opens to a large courtyard. There are other businesses around the courtyard, including an ice cream shop.

As we were getting ready to leave, my little boy spotted two kids, about four and six years old, at the ice cream shop, and bolted off to say hello (I was right behind him!) For about five minutes the kids chased each other around the courtyard and had a blast. Then, the boys had to leave.

Ian watched them walk away, then collapsed on the floor, head in his hands, wailing:
“Nooo! Mommy! Help me! My friends! Help!”

It just melted me. In five minutes he had become best friends with kids whose names he never knew. When exactly do we as people forget how to do that?

@Seek_Kolinahr Some of us still do!

My daughter once asked three nuns why they had on funny witch costumes.

Another time, when I had stopped at a truck stop to buy the two of us drinks and while standing at the counter she loudly said, “Mommy, we’re the only ones here who don’t have pictures on our arms.”

OMG. I need to quote today… again, my baby-sister.
Of course I rooted for Spain! (: It’s part of me! Anyways, not the point. My sister was rooting for Netherlands and I for Spain. When Spain made a goal, she heard my parents and brother scream, “GOOOOL,” and then she puts her head down and she says, ” who cares, it’s just one goal. C’mon Holland!”
POSITIVE ATTITUDE, way to go Baby-sister! (:

Yes they do and one of the side rewards of having them and for me being around the scouts I mentor. Crack me up!!