The way children see things

HONESTY

My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fi shed it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago."

OPINIONS

On the fi rst day of school, a fi rst-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."

SCHOOL

A little girl had just fi nished her fi rst 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!"

THE ELDERLY

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shutins, I used to take my four-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs, unfailingly intrigued her. 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!"

BIBLE

A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fi ngered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an 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!"