A child’s point of view
Fresh Minds See Things Differently – a child’s point of view:
1. NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer
evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up
and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the
shock, I heard my 5-year old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom!
that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’
2. OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a
note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed
by this child are not necessarily those of his parents’
3. KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar.
During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year
old daughter to answer the phone. ‘Mommy can’t come to the
phone to talk to you right now. ‘She’s hitting the bottle.’
4. MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the
women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst
into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover.
The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, ‘What’s
the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?’
5. POLICE #1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary
school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old.
Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, ‘Are you a
cop?’ Yes,’ I answered and continued writing the report. ‘My
mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is
that right?’ ‘Yes, that’s right,’ I told her. ‘Well, then,’ she
said as she extended her foot toward me, ‘would you please tie
my shoe?’
6. POLICE #2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front
of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner,
Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. ‘Is
that a dog you got back there?’ ‘It sure is,’ I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of
the van. Finally he said, ‘What’d he do?’
7. ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to
elderly shut-ins I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my
afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various
appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and
wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false
teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable
barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, ‘The
tooth fairy will never believe this!’
8. DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When
she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, ‘Daddy, you
shouldn’t wear that suit.’ ‘And why not, darling?’ ‘You know
that it always gives you a headache the next morning.’
9. DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our
minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his
collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year old son and his playmates
had found a dead robin. Feeling that a proper burial should be
performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting.
They dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and
with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his
father always sang:
‘Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and into the hole he goes.’
10. SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school, I’m just
wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t
write and they won’t let me talk!’
11. BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as
he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell
out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it.
What he saw was on old leaf that had been pressed in
between the pages. ‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called
out. ‘What have you got there, dear?’ With astonishment in
the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s
underwear.’
Sometimes the best lesson in life comes from the innocent minds of
children yet unaltered by today’s society.
