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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…

“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.”

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 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?”…

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…

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,…

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 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…

This reminds me of something yesterday at work. A colleague was relating a conversation he had with his young daughter, just a bit over 2 years old. They were discussing geography and… “Where does mommy live?” “Minneapolis.” “Where does grandma live?” “Baltimore.” “Where does grandpa live?” “Baltimore.” “And where does daddy live?” “At work!” Needless…

What happens to you if you can not read? Well, since you’ll probably be staying in Kindergarten, less homework!

Johnny: “Dad, stop drinking my root beer!!! Do I get free refills?” Dad: “Sure — I backwashed!”

A mother was teaching her three-year-old daughter The Lord’s Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was ready to solo. The mother listened with pride, as she carefully enunciated each word right up to the end. “And lead us not into temptation”, she prayed, “but…