Ever notice how a 4 year old's
voice is louder than 200 adult voices?
Several years ago, I returned home from a trip just when a storm hit, with
crashing thunder and severe lightning. As I came into my bedroom about 2
a.m., I found my two children in bed with my wife, Karey, apparently scared
by the loud storm. I resigned myself to sleep in the guest bedroom that
night. The next day, I talked to the children, and explained that was O.K.
to sleep with Mom when the storm was bad, but when I was expected home,
please don't sleep with Mom that night. They said OK. After my next trip
several weeks later, Karey and the children picked me up in the terminal at
the appointed time. Since the plane was late, everyone had come into the
terminal to wait for my plane's arrival, along with hundreds of other folks
waiting for their arriving passengers. As I entered the waiting area, my son
saw me, and came running shouting, "Hi, Dad! I've got some good news!" As I
waved back, I said loudly, "What's the good news?" "Nobody slept with
Mommy
while you were away this time!" Alex shouted. The airport became very quiet,
as everyone in the waiting area looked at Alex, then turned to me, and then
searched the rest of the area to see if they could figure out exactly who
his Mom was.
An acquaintance of mine who is a physician told this story about her then 4
yr. old daughter. On the way to preschool, the doctor had left her
stethoscope on the car seat, and her little girl picked it up and began
playing with it. 'Be still, my heart,' thought my friend, 'my daughter wants
to follow in my footsteps!' Then the child spoke into the instrument:
"Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?"
A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply, "I'm Mr.
Sugarbrown's daughter." Her mother told her this was wrong, she must say,
"I'm Jane Sugarbrown. "The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School, and said,
"Aren't you Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter? "She replied, "I thought I was,
but
mother says I'm not."
A little girl asked her mother, "Can I go outside and play with the boys?"
Her mother replied, "No, you can't play with the boys, they're too rough."
The little girl thought about it for a few moments and asked, "If I can find
a smooth one, can I play with him?"
A mother was teaching her 3-year-old the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings
at bedtime she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was
ready to solo. The mother listened with pride as she carefully enunciated
each word, right up to the end of the prayer. "Lead us not into temptation,"
she prayed, "but deliver us some E-mail, Amen."
A Sunday school teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way
to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?" One
bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."
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