Reader’s Digest Canada – September 2019

see an entire box of tam-

pons deployed* WHAT?

— @NOTTHEWORSTMOM

Last winter, there was a

buildup of ice on our

sidewalk, so I went out

to spread salt on it. I had

told my three-year-old

son that I was doing so

to prevent people from

After a while I asked,

“Why are you crying

so much?”

He shouted, “I

wanted to flush!”

— JUDITH PARNETT

My kid: Mommy, these

little Nerf guns don’t

shoot very far.

Me: *turning around to

My six-year-old loved

his pet fish. He watched

and fed it faithfully,

morning and night. But

one day, while he was

in school, his fish died,

so I flushed it down the

toilet. I told him when

he got home, and he

was inconsolable.

Nothing I said helped.

“While I’m concerned about your son, I’m more worried about your dog.

He has eaten an awful lot of homework.”

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reader’s digest

52 september 2019

AS KIDS SEE IT