Learning Your Colors
My 4-year old son (3 at the time), Little Man, needed to clean up some toys in his room. I asked him if he needed any help and he tells me:
“Nope, I have it all under the troll.”
Kool Aid of Butterflies in My Hand
My son, Ryan, was 6 years old. We were at a nice restaurant eating lunch. Earlier in the day my son had been snacking on a packet of chewy, fruit-flavored candy called Gushers. He must have tucked one of the candies into his pocket.
Sitting in the restaurant and feeling bored, Ryan searched his pockets for a toy to play with at the table and found the candy piece. He then loudly exclaimed with great alarm:
“Uh-oh Mom, I’ve got a gusher in my pants!”
Susan Greene of Susan Greene Copywriter
Several years ago, my then four-year-old son, “Felix”, was learning his colors in Pre-K. Driving through a not-so-nice neighborhood in Houston, TX, Felix is pointing out objects and naming their color. A Stop sign is “Look Mommy, red!”; an awning is “Look, Daddy, green!”
Bear in mind that it is hot as Hades in south Texas, and our car had no A/C, so the windows were down. Pulling up to an intersection, we catch sight of a group of gang members standing on the corner. Both stoplights are out of order and covered in plastic, so everyone is taking turns passing through.
My son looks up and exclaims, loudly,
“Look Mommy, Blacks! Blacks, Mommy. Look, Blacks!”
We didn’t wait our turn.
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Those were all great!
I nearly choked on my cornflakes when I read Susan’s contribution. That was just hilarious.
Thank you for including my submission
But the other two? – FUNNY!!! Thanks for sharing
aww man, they were funny! i would love to send you some but as every sentence out of my kids mouth is in a mixture of both English and Finnish I don’t think they would be very understandable.
Funny, I think Susan’s is my favorite!
Hilarious! I love the new site.
Thanks for including my entry. My boys have said some truly iinnapropriate things over the years. Loved the other two entries tremendously.
As much as I can appreciate the humor in the “Blacks!” post – it is not a positive contribution. My daughter is bi-racial – having both Irish and Jamaican DNA. Her skin – my friends- is BROWN – and I never introduced the term – “Black” to reference a human. If we described someone by skin color we would use brown skin as a descriptive. I preferred to introduce the census type “white and blacks” when she was much older and capable of understanding the difference. I am yet to meet someone who has BLACK skin…all that story shows is that the parents talk about “BLACKS” in front of their children – and the childs comment had NOTHING to do with Crayolas. For instance – the first time my 4 year old drove through Harlem she asked – “Hey Mom, how come everyone who lives here has brown skin?”…As cute as the story about the gangbangers is – it is not an example of a child learning colors! Sheesh…