children

The teacher asks his students to spell the word “before”. The first kid tries: “B-E-F-O-H-R.” “No”, says the teacher, “that’s wrong!” Another kid: “B-E-E-F-O-R.” “No, no,” says the teacher. “Anyjoke else?” A little boy raises his hand: “B-E-F-O-R-E!” “Now, that’s right!” beams the teacher. “Now, Washington, use this word ‘before’ in a sentence!” and the…

I don’t get why we teach little kids the popular saying “Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye.” And we wonder what is with all the violence? I mean come on that’s like 100% emo.

Three boys are walking along the beach one day when they see a cave. The first boy goes in and is just looking at a banknote on a big rock when a ghostly voice calls out, “I am the ghost of Auntie Mabel and this five dollars stays on the table!” The second boy goes…

A fourth-grade teacher was giving her pupils a lesson in logic. “Here is the situation,” she said. “A man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help. His wife hears the commotion, knows he can’t swim, and…

Little Johnny’s Joke Little Johnny was sitting on his backyard swing set with some of his sixth grade schoolmates one Saturday when they started to tell some jokes to each other. Little Susie started off by saying, “Knock, knock?” Everyone answered, “Who’s there?” Susie says, “Boo!” Everyone replied, “Boo who?” To which Susie said, “Why…

Two little kids are in a hospital, lying on stretchers next to each other, outside the operating room. The first kid leans over and asks, “What are you in here for?” The second kid says, “I’m in here to get my tonsils out and I’m a little nervous.” The first kid says, “You’ve got nothing…

The arithmetic teacher had written 10.9 on the blackboard and had then rubbed out the decimal point to show the effect of multiplying this number by ten. “Johnny,” the teacher asked, “where is the decimal point now?” “On the eraser!” came back the quick reply.

My husband and I had just finished tucking our five young ones into bed one evening when we heard sobbing coming from three-year-old Billy’s room. Rushing to his side, we found him crying hysterically. He had accidentally swallowed a penny and was sure he was going to die – no amount of talking could change…

Q: Why did the boy wear a diaper to the party? A: He didn’t want to be a party pooper.

Summer was over and the teacher was asking the class about their vacations. She turned to little Johnny and asked what he did over the summer. “We visited my grandmother in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” he said. “That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word,” the teacher said, “Can you tell the class how you spell that?” Little…

Little four-year-old Jenny was looking at her new baby brother for the first time. He was fast asleep. After staring at her tiny, motionless baby brother for a few minutes, Jenny looked up at her mother and asked plaintively, “Didn’t he come with batteries?”

A boy and his father were playing catch in the front yard when the boy saw a honey bee. He ran over and stomped it. “That was a honey bee,” his father said, “one of our friends. For stomping him you will do without honey for a week.” Later the boy saw a butterfly, so…