Kids are a never ending source of amusement for me. You really don't need TV when you have them. When my little boy was about 5, he was sick with a fever, sore throat and earache. Knowing his propensity towards strep throat, I told him he had to go to the doctor. NOT a good thing in his eyes. Driving to the doctor he barely talked to me and looked out the window the whole time. Unusual for him as he usually always chatters about everything to me. As we neared the doctor, out of the blue he said " If I could turn into a big T-Rex right now, I'd just eat you!!" (this was during his dinosaur phase) I tried not to laugh as I explained to him that he needed the medicine the doctor could give him and that it wouldn't be nice to eat your mommy. But believe me later that night when I told my husband we laughed until we cried. Kids say the funniest things, and who knows what they are thinking????? He really is normally a very nice, kind boy by the way!!

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), October 05, 2001

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Oh, how I wish that I had written down all the cute things my kids said when they were younger. They would make a great book!

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), October 05, 2001.

My 4 year old daughter, Katie, keeps us giggling. She has an amazing vocabulary for her age, and loves to make people laugh. A couple of months ago, she got bitten on the hand by a spider. Her hand started to swell pretty badly, so we took her to our family doctor, Dr. Cooke, who Katie adores. He was examining her hand and asking her questions like, does it hurt, does it itch, etc. She was answering his questions and feeling very grown up. She was being very matter of fact (not her usual clownish self). Then he lifted her arm and began to feel up her arm and into her armpit for any swelling. He told her to let him know if she had any pain in her armpit. Katie looked at him like he was looney and said, "Nonsense, Dr. Cooke! It's my hand that hurts!" Dr. Cooke and I burst out laughing, and Katie just shook her head at us, as if we were a couple cans short of a six pack.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), October 05, 2001.

Some years ago we were staying at a camp where the toilet flushed only every other time. My older son used it one morning and said it wouldn't flush. The next son (age 4) went in next and it did flush. He came out and triumphantly declared, "I fixed it! It just needed pottied some more!"

Last night my 9yo daughter asked when we'd get a horse. I said, "Next I'd like to get a goat. After we get a goat I want to get a pig. After we get a pig we'll get a cow. After we get a cow, we'll get a few sheep. After we get sheep..." She interrupted and said, "We'll be bankrupt."

A couple of years ago, we were doing health in homeschool one day. As I demonstrated good posture in standing up straight and tall, my oldest son (then 11 or 12) said, "Mom, that makes your breasts stick out too far."

Earlier this spring, another son, age 6 at the time, said to my husband, "Daddy, when you get old, and you're almost ready to die, can I have your guitar?"

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), October 05, 2001.

When my daughter was about 8(she is 31 now), I gave her a book named "All ABout Me". I asked her to read it to me. It was about the basics of sex. After reading it and discussing it a bit, I told her that if she ever had any questions, she coud ask me or she could ask her step-father. Her brown eyes got REAL big and she asked "You mean he knows about this too???"

-- Ardie from WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), October 05, 2001.

One night when our oldest was five (this was about 18 years ago) he was crying when I went in to hear him say his prayers. He said "Daddy is going to die". It didn't take long to get to the bottom of his fears. At that time they had commercials running (Grandma had a TV) that said "drinking and driving kills". My husband always had a cup of coffee in his hand and while in the car. The commercial he saw did not explain that drinking ALCOHOL and driving kills is what kills. LOL!!

-- Terry - NW Ohi (aunt_tm@hotmail.com), October 05, 2001.

When my oldest was about 5, she sat on the bed next to #2, who was about 2 1/2 and feeling scared about something. Chloe said "It's OK Carmen, I'll ask Jesus to come out of my heart and sit with us so you won't be scared anymore.

-- Julie (julieamc@eagleslair.net), October 05, 2001.

I've got 2 to share...When oldest was about 5 she came home from Sunday school singing "Zaccheus was a weasle man, a weasle man was he...". A quick call to her SS teacher confirmed that she had been taught the song "Zaccheus was a wee little man..." Second story; our 3 year old granddaughter learned a new song about the itsy, bitsy spider, except it came out "The itchy, itchy biter..". Actually, that one's pretty accurate, if you think about it!

-- melina b. (goatgalmjb1@hotmail.com), October 06, 2001.

The song stories reminds me of when my friend's daughter was 5 or 6. We had sung "O For a Thousand Tongues To Sing" in church, and later the little girl was heard to sing, "A ton of bricks fell down on me"!

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), October 06, 2001.

Okay... anybody out there remember Credence Clearwater Revival's song, Run Through The Jungle? That's one of our family favorites around here, but my 4 year old has a little trouble with the lyrics. She was dancing through the house not too long ago singing, "Better run through the jungle, run through the jungle, run through the jungle, and don't lose your bag of seeds."

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), October 08, 2001.