The following three kids' quotes are from our children. ~ Lois
Our son, Jamie, 3, and I had collected some leaves on a walk and I was helping him glue them onto paper. I said, "We're having a 'Me and Mom Time' now aren't we?" He said very happily, "Yeah! Not a "Joy and Jeff and Mom Time!"
Our son, Jeff, 4, came into our bedroom, crying late one night, saying he was afraid. I went over to his room with him and asked what he was afraid of. He told me he heard noises and said, "I think King Herod is in these walls!" I told him how King Herod died a long time ago. Jeff asked, "Could it be that he's dead now?" I assured him that he was safe from the wicked king. In telling this story, with the active imaginations of children, maybe we as parents and Sunday school teachers would do well to add that this evil king can no longer hurt little children.
My husband had given blood for a friend at church, and our daughter, Joy, 4, said, "Daddy gave blood for Mr. Wells! I want to keep my blood all day!" Then she stuck her daddy's blood donor sticker on her pajamas and said, "This is Daddy's shed blood!" (Just a note to say that she has given blood herself years later as an adult.)
As seen in www.effectiveparenting.com - Used by permission ~ Even though we were on a shoestring grad-student budget, my wife insisted we pay off the hospital bill when our son was born. Now we had to figure out how to meet our other financial obligations. We were discussing this one night when the baby began crying for a diaper change. As my wife picked him up, she sighed, "He's the only thing in this house that's paid for… and he leaks."
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