Out Of The Mouths Of Youngsters-And Sometimes Even An Oldster

While I sat in my doctor's office waiting room, a woman rolled in an elderly man on a wheelchair. While she went to the receptionist's window, the man sat silently alone. Just as I was about to make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother's lap, walked over to the old man's wheelchair, placed his hand on the man's, and said, "I know how you feel. My Mom makes me ride in the stroller, too.'

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As a new mother was nursing her baby, her six-year-old daughter niece came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what her aunt was doing. After mulling over the answers, she remarked, 'My mom has some of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them.'

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Bicycling one day with her eight-year-old granddaughter, he got a little wistful and said, 'In ten years, you'll want to be with your friends and you won't go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now. The granddaughter shrugged. 'In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things anyway.'

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As the pediatric nurse entered the examining room to give a four-year-old girl an injection, the girl screamed. 'No, no, no!' 'Lizzie,' scolded her mother, 'that's not polite behavior.' With that, the girl yelled even louder, 'No, thank you! No, thank you!"

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On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, a kid innocently asked his father, 'Dad, I know babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?' After the father hemmed and hawed awhile, the youngster said sort of disappointedly, 'You don't have to make up stories, Dad. It's okay if you don't know the answer.'

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Just before a soldier was deployed to Iraq, he sat his eight-year-old son down and broke the news, 'I'm going to Iraq and will be away for a long time.' The son asked, 'Why? Don't you know there's a war going on over there?'

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Paul Newman, the famous movie actor, founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with cancer, AIDS, and blood diseases. One afternoon, he and his wife, Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids. A camp counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients didn't know Newman as a well-known Hollywood figure, who made the camp possible told the youngsters, "Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing bottle,' Blank stares. 'Or you've probably seen his face on the lemonade carton,' the counselor added. Then an eight-year-old girl asked, 'How long was he missing?'

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As the graveside service for a woman just finished, there was an ear-splitting clap of thunder followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, and further followed by even more thunder and lightning. The dead woman's husband looked at the pastor and calmly said, "Well, she's really there."

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