Kids :
While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman rolled an
elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the
receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent.
Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy
slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his
hand on the man's, he said, 'I know how you feel. My mom makes me ride in
the stroller too.'.
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Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a
little wistful. 'In ten years,' I said, 'you'll want to be with your
friends and you won't go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do
now.
Carolyn shrugged. 'In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things
anyway.'
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Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving
immunization shots to children. One day I entered the examining room to
give four-year-old Lizzie her needle.
'No, no, no!' she screamed.
'Lizzie,' scolded her mother, 'that's not polite behavior.'
With that, the girl yelled even louder, 'No, thank you! No, thank you!
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On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson asked my son the
question. 'Dad, I know that babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do
they get there in the first place?' he asked innocently.
After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in
disgust. 'You don't have to make something up, Dad. It's OK if you don't
know the answer.'
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Just before I was deployed to Iraq , I sat my eight-year-old son down and
broke the news to him..
'I'm going to be away for a long time,' I told him. 'I'm going to Iraq .'
'Why?!' he asked. 'Don't you know there's a war going on over there?'
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Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children stricken
with cancer, AIDS and blood diseases. One afternoon he and his wife, Joanne
Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids.
A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients wouldn't know
that Newman was a famous movie star, explained, 'That's the man who made
this camp possible. Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing
bottle?'
Blank stares.
'Well, you've probably seen his face on his lemonade carton.'
An eight-year-old girl perked up. 'How long was he missing?'