Back in the 50s/60s in Southern California, there was a comedy radio host named Art Linkletter. As one of his regular bits, he'd invite random local children on the show and just talk to them about random things... because, you know conversations with young kids tend to go completely off the rails, especially with a comedy host. I mention this because he made sure to ask every kid, "Now, when Mommy and Daddy learned you would be on the show, was there anything they told you not to talk about?" Absolute neutral chaos.
He published what they said as "Kids Say the Darndest Things" -- the book was illustrated by a pre-Snoopy Charles Schultz. Great stuff, especially the whimsical drawing of a cat sticking its neck out of a beer bottle. That was the kid's family pets, including "a cat named Regal Pale." Great buy if you find it at a used book store.
10:45 this is how I would answer that: "because mean ppl used that word in a mean way to brown ppl to make them feel bad abt being brown. So now that word is forever a mean word to them and we shouldn't use ir."
I was visiting my brother and his family. One daughter was in 8th grade,the other a freshman in highschool. They were doing homework. I helped one niece with her Frenchamd history. The other I helped with math and English. The younger niece said to her Mom:" How come you say Uncle Brian is a moron?. He's helping us with subjects you can't help us with?". My SIL stomped her way upstairs to her bed room. Since I hadn't unpacked I got my bag and started to leave. My brother was saying something as I went out the door. It was a long time before I went back.
I work at a zoo, and while I was stationed by our Bald Eagles a little girl came up and asked me “Do eagles go to bird school?” I said that their parents teach them everything they need to know, so that’s kind of like bird school.
Here’s one my mom said I asked when I was in elementary school (but only vaguely recall): “Why do movies that are rated ‘R’ warn that they have ‘adult language’ when they actually mean cuss words which aren’t very mature at all?” To be fair, the only reason I asked that was because we’d recently had a speaker come to the school to talk to us about appropriate language on school grounds. (Personally I never swore or my my mom would’ve either whooped me OR my Dad would’ve given me a LOOONG, boring lecture about developing a vocabulary fit for a productive member of society.)
"I wish people would come up with a different word for love so it'll be easier to understand." That 7 y/o has more meaningful thoughts in an hour than I have my whole life. 😅
Few years ago, when my friend's kid was 5.... I am a transsexual woman and I befriended a lawyer who worked on some LGBT causes here in Serbia, and her 5 year old met me as I was more and more frequent of a guest in her home. One time she tried to explain to him the whole concept of who and what I am and what I have gone through. And here there is this famous movie with an old bus full of colorful characters taking place a day before WW2 started in our country (Ko to tamo peva?- Who is singing over there?), with one of the opening lines being "We're gonna ride in the same bus with Gypsies?" - everyone and their cat knows that film here and kids often quote it to impress adults. After a whole explanation my friend gave to her kid on trans issues, he asked her "We're gonna ride on the same bus as transsexuals?"
I once heard a child ask what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. To be honest, I thought the answer he got was a bit inappropriate, and rather unprofessional coming from a museum curator.
"You wouldn't happen to be throwing these out by any chance would you?" -Me in reference to a couple of sandpit toy construction vehicles at one of my dad's friend's houses. He wasn't throwing them out.
Foster siblings liked trolling me, the big brother, by asking where babies come from. I asked them if they've ever seen a pregnant woman. They say yes, and I tell them there they go. Some press further, and I tell them ill let them know when theyve got hair in their armpits.
The babysitter of the autistic kid put what our lives are like into words better than any non-autistic I’ve ever met. It’s hard being in this world when, for many of us, we cannot easily understand prejudice and injustice. We have this deep sense of justice, we can’t read people’s outsides well so we don’t judge them for it and instead focus on people’s insides and actions.
12:19 the answer to that is: "hate" isn't a bad word, this kid's parents are just idiots, and also some languages have different words for different types of love (for example, Greek language)
Re why isn’t love a super good word: it’s linguistic!! Other languages, like Japanese and Spanish, have a word for expressing something or someone you enjoy but wouldn’t say you love. English does not.
I have family friends who are lesbian couple and on our way home from dinner with them and my cousins my cousin asked her mom, mom why didn’t you marry a woman? I liked it because it was just so normal to her and she just genuinely wanted to know why her mom didn’t do it. 4:565:01
Back in the 50s/60s in Southern California, there was a comedy radio host named Art Linkletter. As one of his regular bits, he'd invite random local children on the show and just talk to them about random things... because, you know conversations with young kids tend to go completely off the rails, especially with a comedy host.
I mention this because he made sure to ask every kid, "Now, when Mommy and Daddy learned you would be on the show, was there anything they told you not to talk about?"
Absolute neutral chaos.
He published what they said as "Kids Say the Darndest Things" -- the book was illustrated by a pre-Snoopy Charles Schultz. Great stuff, especially the whimsical drawing of a cat sticking its neck out of a beer bottle. That was the kid's family pets, including "a cat named Regal Pale." Great buy if you find it at a used book store.
That book is how I found him.@@3frenchhens818
10:45 this is how I would answer that: "because mean ppl used that word in a mean way to brown ppl to make them feel bad abt being brown. So now that word is forever a mean word to them and we shouldn't use ir."
I was visiting my brother and his family. One daughter was in 8th grade,the other a freshman in highschool. They were doing homework. I helped one niece with her Frenchamd history. The other I helped with math and English. The younger niece said to her Mom:" How come you say Uncle Brian is a moron?. He's helping us with subjects you can't help us with?". My SIL stomped her way upstairs to her bed room. Since I hadn't unpacked I got my bag and started to leave. My brother was saying something as I went out the door. It was a long time before I went back.
I work at a zoo, and while I was stationed by our Bald Eagles a little girl came up and asked me “Do eagles go to bird school?” I said that their parents teach them everything they need to know, so that’s kind of like bird school.
Here’s one my mom said I asked when I was in elementary school (but only vaguely recall): “Why do movies that are rated ‘R’ warn that they have ‘adult language’ when they actually mean cuss words which aren’t very mature at all?” To be fair, the only reason I asked that was because we’d recently had a speaker come to the school to talk to us about appropriate language on school grounds. (Personally I never swore or my my mom would’ve either whooped me OR my Dad would’ve given me a LOOONG, boring lecture about developing a vocabulary fit for a productive member of society.)
"I wish people would come up with a different word for love so it'll be easier to understand."
That 7 y/o has more meaningful thoughts in an hour than I have my whole life. 😅
Few years ago, when my friend's kid was 5.... I am a transsexual woman and I befriended a lawyer who worked on some LGBT causes here in Serbia, and her 5 year old met me as I was more and more frequent of a guest in her home. One time she tried to explain to him the whole concept of who and what I am and what I have gone through. And here there is this famous movie with an old bus full of colorful characters taking place a day before WW2 started in our country (Ko to tamo peva?- Who is singing over there?), with one of the opening lines being "We're gonna ride in the same bus with Gypsies?" - everyone and their cat knows that film here and kids often quote it to impress adults. After a whole explanation my friend gave to her kid on trans issues, he asked her "We're gonna ride on the same bus as transsexuals?"
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Hey wait a minute, that's how that bad Elf Bowling movie started.
I once heard a child ask what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. To be honest, I thought the answer he got was a bit inappropriate, and rather unprofessional coming from a museum curator.
"You wouldn't happen to be throwing these out by any chance would you?" -Me in reference to a couple of sandpit toy construction vehicles at one of my dad's friend's houses. He wasn't throwing them out.
Foster siblings liked trolling me, the big brother, by asking where babies come from. I asked them if they've ever seen a pregnant woman. They say yes, and I tell them there they go.
Some press further, and I tell them ill let them know when theyve got hair in their armpits.
5:16 story
Don't let those kids watch Dragon Ball, otherwise they'll do what Goku did to Bulma to you
Kids are..... interesting people.
The babysitter of the autistic kid put what our lives are like into words better than any non-autistic I’ve ever met.
It’s hard being in this world when, for many of us, we cannot easily understand prejudice and injustice. We have this deep sense of justice, we can’t read people’s outsides well so we don’t judge them for it and instead focus on people’s insides and actions.
When I was about 11, I was told that dogs learn to bark from other dogs.
This lead to me asking how the first dog learned to bark.
12:19 the answer to that is: "hate" isn't a bad word, this kid's parents are just idiots, and also some languages have different words for different types of love (for example, Greek language)
My grandson asked me after I handed him a VHS tape of The Fox and The Hound, he asked What kind of book is this? 😂😂😂
Males can produce milk if the body is trained enough, though not sure of it would be beneficial for a baby
Apparently when I was 3 and first saw my newborn baby brother, I asked, "Why does he have a nose on his bum?"
goodness gracious 😂
Re why isn’t love a super good word: it’s linguistic!! Other languages, like Japanese and Spanish, have a word for expressing something or someone you enjoy but wouldn’t say you love. English does not.
I have family friends who are lesbian couple and on our way home from dinner with them and my cousins my cousin asked her mom, mom why didn’t you marry a woman? I liked it because it was just so normal to her and she just genuinely wanted to know why her mom didn’t do it. 4:56 5:01
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