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FROM THE MOUTHS OF CHILDREN...

  A Sunday school class was studying the Ten  Commandments. They were ready to discuss the last one.   The teacher asked if  anyone could tell her what   it was.   Susie raised  her hand, stood tall, and  quoted, "Thou shall not   take  the covers  off the neighbor's wife."

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  I had been teaching my three-year old daughter,  Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer.   For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat  after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I 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."

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  And one particular four-year old prayed, "And  forgive us our trash baskets   as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."

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  A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you  can't make me a better   boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good  time like I am."

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  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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  The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike,  and as he preached, he   moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike  cord as he went. Then he   moved to one side, getting  wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before   jerking it again.  After  several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third pew leaned toward her  mother and whispered, "If he gets loose,  will he hurt  us?"

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  Six-year old Angie and her four-year old brother Joel  were sitting together   in church.  Joel  giggled, sang and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister   had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out  loud in church." "Why?   Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.  Angie pointed  to the back of the  church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."

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  A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin,  5, Ryan, 3. The boys   began to argue over who would get the first pancake.   Their mother saw the   opportunity for a moral  lesson. "If Jesus  were  sitting here, He would say   'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.'  Kevin turned to his   younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"

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  A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year old son ran   up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the  shore, where a seagull lay   dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and   went to Heaven,"  the dad replied. The boy thought a moment and then said,   "Did God  throw him back down?"

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  After the church service a little boy told the  pastor, "When I grow up, I'm   going to give you some money." "Well,  thank you,"  the pastor replied,  "but why?" "Because my daddy says  you're one  of the poorest preachers we've ever had."

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  A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table,  she turned to their   six-year old daughter and said, "Would you like to  say the blessing?" "I   wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.  "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife  answered.  The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I  invite all these people to dinner?"

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A three-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens. "How did you know," his mother asked? "Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."

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 Another three-year old put his shoes on by himself. His mother noticed the left was on the right foot. "Son, your shoes are on the wrong feet." He looked up at her with a raised brow and said, "Don't kid me, Mom. I KNOW they're my feet."

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 On the first day of school, the Kindergarten teacher said, "If anyone has to go to the bathroom, hold up two fingers."  little voice from the back of the room asked, "How will that help?"
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 A mother and her young son returned from the grocery store and began putting away the groceries. The boy opened the box of animal crackers and spread them all over the table. "What are you doing?" his mother asked. "The box says you can't eat them if the seal is broken," the boy explained. "I'm looking for the seal."