- "Mum, why did you buy solar lights for the terrace? Surely it'd be better to get ones that come on when it's dark?"


Thanks Maya.

Gritting his teeth and scowling, my 4-year-old son made it very clear that he was unhappy about something. - "Mom, I DO NOT like the magic wand you gave me."
- "Why not?" - "It doesn't work."

As I'm brushing my 4-yr old daughter's tangly hair, perhaps a bit too forcefully, she turns to me, hands on hips and says, - "Daddy, don't be so rough. I'm a girl. We're different than boys. Don't you know that?"

I teach third grade. Last week we were on our way in from recess and "Little Johnny" announced, - "There are over 200 definitions for the word "sex." I told him that we are not going to talk about that at school. He looked at me like I was from Mars. For fear that he was calling my bluff, I just changed the subject. The... next day, he brought in his book and showed me where he read that there are over 200 definitions for the word "set". I didn't tell him, but I could have crawled under a chair!

Liz

Last night my just-turned-3 year-old snipped her hair. After I calmed down she asked me, "I cut your hair?"

Ana

My 8 year old grandson was bragging to me about his report card and that he was a straight "A" student! As I was telling him how proud I was, he was telling me that he was studying folk lore and legends and proverbs. He continued to say that he was studying Paul Bunyan and wanted to know what I knew about him. I tol...d him that I knew he was a lumberjack and that he was a BIG man and that he had a blue ox named Babe. He was so amazed and he said to me,

- "Geesh, Grammy, you are so smart and you don't even go to school!!"

Kelly

My 7 year old daughter, after I said "maybe" when she asked me if she could play on the computer later: "I think 'maybe' means 'no' in grown-up language."

My 3 yr old boy was looking at my 7 yr old´s Nintendo DS and says "I know this Nintendo DS has a chip, but how do I get to eat it???"

Lucia

What do you say when your eldest son tell you this: "Penises are cool, I have a penis - so I'm cool. You don't have a penis mama...so you are not cool."

Denise