What are the "wisest" things your kids have said?

[msdznyduck]

When DS16 was in kindergarten, he came home and told us that a first grader told him that if you eat crackers, you don't have to brush your teeth.......and he should know....he was in FIRST grade, (unlike only being in kindergarten.)
We still kid him about that one.

What "wise" things have your little ones said?

 

[FTWFAN]

I will try to make this short.....

When youngest DD(now 7) was born, she had severe heart complications and we were not sure if she would make it or not! At that time, oldest DD(now 15) was 8. After a couple of months, youngest became much better and her prognosis good. Oldest DD came home from school one day asking if I would help her raise money for the American Heart Association. I asked her when the money was due. Her answer, "Day after tomorrow"! I told her no way was I going out begging for money on such short notice. She strongly put her foot down, hands on her hips and said....."Fine! Don't! But just remember, if everyone felt the way you do Nanabug might not be alive today!" She quickly put me in my place. Using her words, I raised almost $100 the next day at work!!!!!

Out of the mouths of babes!!!!!!

 

[Dancind]

Our first WDW trip was right after DD's 8th birthday. She was pretty shy back then, and really didn't like to do (or eat) anything she wasn't already well familiar with. Our trip was in early May, and it was pretty uncrowded at the parks, so there were lots of times when various CM's would try and engage her. For instance, offering to let her wear an engineer's hat at the monorail station, and help the CM's inside the gate. She wasn't having any of it. Two nights before we left, we went to the Hoop Dee Doo review, and were seated upstairs. At one point, they put the spotlight on her, and she made a dive for under the table. But when they said they were going to pick people to be in the show, she got up and RAN downstairs, and right up to the stage. They had already picked everyone, but they took her backstage, wrapped her in a blanket, and gave her a line. She did great! On the way home on the airplane, she told me, "Mom, if you never try anything new, life would be very boring". She's kind of lived by that ever since.

 

[Microcell]

My DD came home from her first day of Kindergarten last year and I said, what did you learn today? She replied "Well, I learned how to read." I could not stop laughing!! I told her to get to work and make some money then! School was far too easy for her!

 

[Feralpeg]

When DD was about 7, something happened and I said "great minds think alike". She promptly replied, "No, Mom, great minds think for themselves." I was totally blown away. Several years later, she told me that she'd heard it in a movie. I still thought it was pretty great that she had picked up on it.

 

[Missy1961]

My 5 yr old niece creates new meanings for words. For instance, she calls appetizers "hold overs" because her mom would ask her "do you want something to hold you over?" when dinner would be late.

 

[leighe]

When my little brother was about 4 (I was 6 or 7 and I only vaguely remember this but my mom has told it a lot) he started asking all these questions about God.
"Mom, could God be in my closet?"
"Yes, Josh."
"Could God be in my toybox?"
"Well, yes, he could."
"Could God be at preschool?"
"Yeah Josh, I guess so."

and on and on for like, two days. Mom later found out that his last Sunday school lesson was about God being everywhere all the time.

So we're getting ready to get in the car for me to go to gymnastics and Josh gets in and he won't scoot over. Of course I start pushing him and being obnoxious and my mom is trying to get my sister in the carseat ( she was about 6 months) ( I do remember this part). So mom has had it and says,
"Josh, scoot over right now."
"Mom, I can't!"
"Josh we do not have time for this. I said move over."
Mom says that he looked at her with this totally serious look on his face and said, "Mom I can't! God's sitting there. If I scoot I'll squoosh him"

My mom replied, "Leigh, go around. We don't want Josh to sit on God."

I think that is so cute and funny! Many people might make better decisions if they thought "God is sitting there."

 

[Purrrrfecta]

Just said to my son (8 yrs old) that certain tennis players (he loves tennis) are wonderful fathers and husbands, but others have loads of girlfriends, and that if he becomes a professional I do not want him to have that many, and he said screaming in the parking lot of the grocery store,

"ARE YOU CRAZY? I WOULD NEVER HAVE THAT MANY GIRLFRIENDS, I WOULD NOT WANT AIDS!!!!!!!"

I didn't even know he knew what AIDS meant. Go figure! He is like a sponge when it comes to knowledge.

 

[mommytutu]

It's amazing how much "knowledge" these kids have!

Alec, who just turned 7 this week, told my mom a few months ago that if she would just cut up her credit cards she would have more money.

 

[disykat]

Leighe's post reminded me of what my now 9 year old son said - I think he was 4. He didn't want to hold my hand to cross the street, but knew I wanted him to be safe. So he held his hand up in the air and said "I'm holding God's hand."