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Living in Florida all their lives, my children weren't used to wearing certain winter apparel. Before going outside one particularly cold day, I told my four-year-old son, Kyle, to be sure to cover his ears.
"It's okay, Mom," he assured me. "I've got my ear mittens on."
As my eleven-year-old daughter, Kayla, and I giggled behind our hands, she whispered, "He meant to say, 'ear muffins'!"
-Karin C. Wooten
Ocala, Florida
Before a field trip to a farm, my city-dwelling grandson, Eddie, and his kindergarten classmates were being quizzed on animal gender names. After a string of correct answers, the teacher asked for the male name of a goose. Everyone was stumped. Finally Eddie took a stab: "A geezer?"
-Tom LaMance
Prewitt, New Mexico
To help my Sunday school class of nine-year-olds understand the difficulty of Moses' job of settling disputes as leader of the Israelites, I asked the children to role-play. Zackery was given Moses' part while the others worked in pairs to come up with problems for him to tackle.
The first duo, Jessica and DaNae, approached their leader and said, "We have no food."
Moses thought for a minute and nervously answered, "Go kill some animals."
The next pair were the Terrence children. The problem? "Someone's been killing our animals."
-Loren McCune
Newnan, Georgia
One evening at dinner, our four-year-old grandson, Robbie, volunteered to say the blessing. With hands folded, Robbie said his usual table grace, "God is great, God is good … " but after a quick peek at the food on the table, quickly added, "And thank you, God, for the hands that repaired it!"
-Charlotte Slater
Greenville, Pennsylvania
At the beginning of children's Bible club, we always review the previous week's lesson. Getting the conversation going one evening about the story of Peter's vision of the heavenly sheet filled with animals, another teacher asked, "What did Peter see when he went up on the housetop to pray?"
One little boy waved his hand and yelled, "Pigs in a blanket!"
-Karen S. Stanfill
Bolivar, Ohio
My four-year-old was standing on a kitchen chair pulled close to the wall, intensely staring at the familiar "Our Daily Bread" painting of the older man praying over a small loaf.
"What are you doing, Honey?" I asked.
"Looking," she said with a catch in her voice.
Noticing tears under her dark lashes, I probed deeper. "What are you thinking?"
With a heartfelt sigh, she replied, "He doesn't have any peanut butter."
-H.J. Duffy
Livingston, Texas
Smoky, our family cat, had gotten injured and needed to stay at the vet clinic for several days. Our three children were so concerned that several times a day, my wife and I had to reassure them that Smoky was safe and being cared for by the "animal doctor."
Finally, we got the call that Smoky was ready to come home. Driving to the vet's, it became clear that our four-year-old son, Ryan, had been doing a lot of thinking about Smoky's absence when he asked, "Mom, what kind of animal is the doctor?"
-Paul M. Hampton
Cold Spring, Kentucky
My daughter Melody's two-year-old twins enrolled in my day care. Since the other children were fascinated by the look-alikes, I tried to help them tell the twins apart. "Today Tyler is wearing red socks," I would say, or "Justin is in the blue shirt today."
After a few weeks, I assumed everyone could now tell the twins apart. But I had to smile one afternoon when a six-year-old looked the twins up and down carefully, sighed, and asked, "Okay, what's the clue today?"
-Kathie McQueary
Hood River, Oregon
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January/February 1997, Vol. 35, No. 1, Page 69
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