children

  • Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?

    A family had lived in Brooklyn for three years, and their eight-year-old son had attended a Brooklyn public school for the past two years. The people of Brooklyn are renowned for their unusual, if not unique, manner of speaking, and the two years of school had given the young fellow an accent that would be…

  • Hahaha

    What do u call, a hippopotamus that dances? A hiphopanominus

  • Laughing Baby

    A baby boy was just born. He had all his pieces and looked quite normal, except that he was laughing – I mean laughing real hard. All the doctors and nurses were examining the little guy in front of his worried parents. He just kept on laughing, his tiny fists all closed and tears rolling…

  • 36 Truths About Children

    From a San Diego Father who has identified 35 truths he learned from his children: There is no such thing as childproofing your house. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. A 4-year-old’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. If…

  • The Whisper

    A mother took her little boy to church. While in church the little boy said, “Mommy, I have to pee.” The mother said to the little boy, “It’s not appropriate to say the word ‘pee’ in church. So, from now on whenever you have to ‘pee’ just tell me that you have to ‘whisper.’” The…

  • Attack of the Abstract Noun

    “An abstract noun,” the teacher said, “is something you can think of, but you can’t touch it. Can you give me an example of one?” “Sure,” a teenage boy replied. “My father’s new car.”

  • Quite a Handful

    Natalie had three very active young sons and they were quite a handful. One summer evening she was playing cowboys and Indians with them in her front garden when one of the boys “shot” her and shouted “Bang! You’re dead, Mum,” so Natalie fell down. Her next door neighbour had been watching all this and…

  • Alligator

    Alligator One day, Grandma sent her grandson Johnny down to the water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him. He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Grandma’s kitchen. “Well now, where’s my bucket and where’s my water?”…

  • “Home Alone”

    St. Paul, MN The hit movie “Home Alone” about a boy thwarting burglars with imaginative mayhem, wasn’t total fantasy. Just ask the guy who tried to break in while 13-year-old Ryan Hendrickson was home alone. Ryan was watching television Wednesday night when he heard a noise that sounded like a window screen being cut. “I…

  • Stoplight!

    A kindergarten teacher was giving her students a homework assignment. She said, “Students, I know you can do this. If you are going anywhere tonight, then watch how your parents drive in relation to the stoplight. This means, watch how they drive and what they say when the stoplight turns green, when it turns red,…

  • The Young Mother

    An eight year old girl tried checking a book out of the library, entitled ‘Advice for Young Mothers’. The librarian, being a typically nosey and puritanical librarian, asked, “Why do you want to check out this particular book, dear?” The little girl replied, “Because I collect moths.”

  • A Father Watched His Daughter…

    A father watched his daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and innocent his little girl was. He went over to her and noticed she was looking at two spiders mating. “Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?” she asked. “They’re mating,” her father replied. “What do you call…