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Our preschooler, Morgan, really was excited about our new home computer. We didn't know how special it was until we overheard her say, hugging her favorite teddy bear, "Oh, Grizzwald, I love you so much. I wish I could double click you!"

-Sharon Jones
Nantucket, Massachusetts

On Easter Sunday our minister, trying to emphasize the celebration of Jesus' resurrection, asked the children if they had noticed any changes in the music from previous weeks. "For the last few Sundays, the music has been slow and somber," he reminded them, "but today it's upbeat and joyful. Do you know why?"

No one ventured an answer until the organist's three-year-old daughter piped up, "Because Daddy's been practicing all week!"

-Lyn Hill
London, Ontario

My friend, Carolyn, was frustrated by how often her four-year-old son, Brian, was getting dirty playing outside. At wit's end, she finally said, "Brian, can't you play someplace where it's cleaner?"

"If God didn't want us to play in the dirt," Brian logically said, "why did he make so much of it?"

-Lois Kathan
Warrenton, Missouri

Our fledgling church was holding services in a dance studio that provided us with ample space for worship and Sunday school classes. One morning, a member brought his third-grade nephew to Sunday school for the first time. When it was time to begin, the boy refused to go into his classroom. This went on for weeks, each time the boy insisting he wanted to be with his uncle in the adult class. Finally, the truth came out. The first Sunday the boy had spied a rack of tutus in the corner of his makeshift classroom and feared they were the standard uniform for the class!

-Jay Akkerman
Silverdale, Washington

In the car my four-year-old granddaughter asked me why I was wearing the brightly colored scarf I had on.

"I thought it would make my blue suit look much prettier," I said.

After a moment's consideration, she replied sympathetically, "It didn't work, did it?"

-Eileen Munro
Rocanville, Saskatchewan

My first-grade daughter, Jenny, loves to sing. One day as I drove her to school, we were "accompanying" Michael W. Smith on his song, "Angels Unaware." When we got to the line, "Maybe we are entertaining angels unaware," I heard her version loud and clear: "Maybe we are irritating angels unaware." I couldn't have said it better myself.

-Nancy LaDuke
Novato, California

The week after our six-year-old daughter, Hilary, learned about Daniel and the power of prayer in Sunday school, my wife had to scold her for misbehaving. Hilary was sent to her room. Minutes later, she appeared with a letter.

"Dear Mummy," it read. "Please pray this prayer and mean it. 'Dear God, help me to be kind to Hilary. Amen.'"

It worked!

-Philip Saunders
Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa

One of my grown sons had made up an emergency repair kit for the trunk of my car. The box was so large, I jokingly called it "my coffin." When it was time to buy a new car, my seven-year-old grandson, Matthew, came with me to the dealer. As we looked in the trunk of the car I finally decided upon, Matthew startled the salesman by asking, "Are you going to keep your coffin in the trunk of this car now?"

-Delores Elaine Bius
Chicago, Illinois

I was telling my first-grade Sunday school class about John the Baptist. Mentioning that he ate locusts and honey comb, I noticed a puzzled look from one of the boys. "Wow," he mused, "I never knew they had cereal back then!"

-Abigail A. Freeman
Sycamore, Illinois

My three-year-old son's Sunday school teacher mentioned to me that it had been a wild morning-the children just wouldn't settle down. My son, Clayton, was one of the culprits. When she said to him, "Clayton, come and sit down on the rug, pronto," he indignantly replied, "Nobody calls me Pronto!"

-Peggy Carlson
Wheaton, Illinois

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