Through a Child's Eyes

Oh to be a child again. No worries, no cares. So naive and innocent. I just wanted to share a few things I've heard from children through the past.

-When visited by a local church a girl and her mother were given a church calendar. After the mother viewed it, she handed it to the child and proceeded talking with the visitors. After a few moments the child stands up and forces the calendar back towards the visitors and states, "I don't want to go to your church, You have "chore" practice on Wednesday nights."

-After searching through her brother's stash of video games (mind you some were not child intended) my sister comes across a game with vampires on the cover and the name Apocalypse. Not knowing what the word means, she asks her mother. Mother has been teaching her to look up meanings of words she's unsure of, so she breaks out the dictionary. This is what she reads:
one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom
Looking at her mother she says, "So mom, this is a game about Jewish Vampires". Needless to say, we didn't play that game!!! We were too busy on the floor laughing!!!

-A child came bursting through the front door calling for her mother. "Mom, you've got to come out here. There's a "Japanese" cat on our front porch.

-"There's a bug in my room and it smells like fruit loops."

-On the ride to school, there is an advertisement for dressed catfish. Child reads it aloud and looks questioningly at her mother. "Mom, they play dress up with their fish?"


When I was living at home my little sister liked to make up words and names for things. Mind you she's 12 years my junior. These were some of her words and what she said they meant.

Intecticator (in-tek-di-cador): When you play with a gadget and you just don't really know what it is. (It was actually an old hand-held video game, that no longer worked.)

Desestipated (de-zest-i-pay-ted): When you are so hungry, you could eat two happy meals. (We actually thought she was saying she was "constipated")

Enawena (in-ah-win-ah): I love you. (This was our favorite by far. We still use it occasionally.)

One morning she woke up and didn't want to go to "play school". She was about 4 and began fake coughing. She said, "Mommy I can't go to Mrs. ____ today. I'm sick." "What's wrong sweetie?" "I've got the Magnolia".

It's amazing with what they come up with!!!