your children show
up and ask what
you’re eating?
— @MOMMAJESSIEC
Four-year-old student:
Mrs. P., did you notice
I’m getting taller?
Me: I thought you
looked taller.
innocently, “And
where do they keep
their pancakes?”
— ASIYAH BAKSH,
Hamilton
If you open a candy
wrapper in the middle
of a forest with nobody
around, how long until
My sister was out for a
walk with her three-
year-old son. On the
walk, she pointed out
an empty nest, telling
her son, “That’s a bird’s
nest. The birds keep
their eggs in there.”
Her son looked up
at her and asked
“We can speak freely now. I’ve secured the line.”
CONAN DE VRIES
reader’s digest
66 may 2020
AS KIDS SEE IT