The honesty of children (part 124...)

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 Mum makes me ride in the stroller too.”

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As I was nursing my baby, my cousin's six-year-old daughter, came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was doing.
After mulling over my answers, she remarked, “My mum has some of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them.”

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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 paediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunisation shots to children. One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her injection.
“No, no, no!” she screamed.
“Lizzie,” scolded her mother, "that's not polite behaviour.”
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 son innocently said to me, “Dad, I know babies come from mummies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?”
After I hemmed and hawed awhile, my son finally spoke up in disgust, “You don't have to make up something, Dad. It’s okay 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?”