From the mouths of babes (post your funnies)

by Cappuccino OC 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Cappuccino OC

  Ketchup I love that Elsewhere.

  Heaven, my daughter has asked the same question and I don't know what to say. She says, "I want god to listen to me & respond to my prayers but I've never heard his until now." I agree with you Heaven those questions are SOO hard.

  I'll try to brain storm & get back to you. If you find any answers let me know.

  Thanks,

  Capp

  ps. thank you for your comment on the '80's pictures. You are too KIND. I grew up thinking I was the Ugly Duckling in the family. (that's what people would tell me)
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  Solace

  Awww, thanks Elsewhere for offering to kick Comfs a*s for me. You are such a sweetie although Im pretty sure I could take him myself.

  Seriously though, Comf may have a point. Kids usually believe whatever their parents tell them. I mean who would ever think their parents would knowingly lie to them? I have a hard time with the Santa thing and usually copp out and say, "Im not sure, I never celebrated it growing up, go ask your dad". I dont want to lie to him and probably shouldnt answer something that Im not even sure of myself. Kids can really teach us alot about ourselves if we let them, ya' know?
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  rosalyn

  One little guy that was being hauled back to the bathroom for a spanking yelled "Help me Jehovah" Laughter filled the hall and won himself a reprieve that time.

  My two month baby boy was mildy feeling the effects of garlic salad dressing I had consumed. Being breastfed, he ate what I ate but several hours later. While at an intimate gathering for the Tuesday night book study in my father's rec room, Ben made his first comment. Resounding belches from both ends of his little body. Dead silence.Followed by Laughter: Good hearty laughter. Even my somewhat austere father while, so red in the face, was very amused by his little grandson. So I guess it's safe to say out of the mouths and bottoms of babes?

  Being a good little witness at the time, I only used that salad dressing on non-meeting nights after that.

  rosalyn
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  Elsewhere

  Heaven,

  I don't have any kids, but if I did I would say something like: "No on really knows for sure if there is a god or not. Some people do believe it, some people don't (like me). Feel free to explore different ideas, but don't feel like you to have to follow anyone else's ideas on the matter."

  One of my favorite sayings is: "Follow your heart and you will never be lost."
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  Solace

  Elsewhere,

  Thank you for the good advice. Are you sure you dont have kids? My guess is that you will make a good parent someday, among other things.
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  joannadandy

  Not mine, my sisters: A car full of African Americans pulls up next to my parents, where we grew up let's just say not a lot of diversity, so she yells out the open car windows "Hey dad look! It's the Jackson Five!"

  Same sister different story: They were shoe shopping and she was trying some on. When the salesman asked her what she thought of them, she tried to think of the biggest word she could to impress him so she said in a vey sweet and thrilled voice, "Oh my well, I think they are just really nauseating"--she had no idea what the word actually meant.
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  Solace

  Rosalyn, HELP ME JEHOVAH!! That is too funny! Why didnt I think of that!

  Joanna, That just reminded me of a time when the kids were playing with Play-doh. They were talking about why you shouldnt eat it. One said, "It will make you sick" and my son goes, "yeah, you will get "CONSUMATED" instead of "constapated". Im sure it was a mispronunciation, its not like we use this word every day but still, very funny. I suppose I should be putting all this into a baby book for when he's older, huh?
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  joannadandy

  Rosalyn your story reminded me of my best friends little brother...he had to be like 3 or 4 at the time, and was acting up, so his mom was marching him downstairs to admister some corporal punishment. They were walking up the isle, he grabbed her face squishing her cheeks in both his little hands and turned her to look him in the eye, and he yelled "MOMMY I LOVE YOU!"
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  Sabine

  When my son was three, at the memorial, he sat patiently watching the crackers go by - then the wine. He looked at me and asked loudly "Where's the cheese?" He had been to enough wine parties to know you must serve cheese with wine and crackers..come on!!