When the kids start talking

I have this blogger friend, Marcy, whose blog(Tales of the Kids) I very keenly follow. She writes these interesting anecdotes about her kids (Cathy & Miles) and their antics. She records every little triumphs of their childhood in her writings, like about the questions her 6 year old asks her sometimes (Who invented shower?? Really!!?? Who did?) Or the really enlivening observations of her 5 year old (Did you know that fishes don't have any feet?!). It is so witty and hilarious and always a pleasure to read. As a veteran mother she can provide some pretty valuable insight to the inner circles of motherdom.

So, anyways, I was reading the recent article she wrote about things little kids can say sometimes and I realised that I too have stories to tell about similar experiences with street smart kids, in fact I was one myself. So here I present those and some from what I've heard from my peeps.

Once, one of my little cousin saw one of those prismatic rainbow reflection in an oil puddle. He ran back home and got his mum to show it to her and as I recall he said, 'Look ma, a dead rainbow!!'
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One of my friends, when she was little, once asked her dad when colour was invented. She believed that the world was Black & White once upon a time.
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When I was little I once asked my dad why he worked for money when that was simply available for our disposal at the ATM.
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My 4 year old niece recently asked her mother, 'What is the purpose of date?' And was very upset when we couldn't give her a satisfying answer, she even gave me a disappointed look and asked if I ever went to school.
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A four year old nephew of one of my friends had just watched a super hero movie and couldn't seem to get enough of it. He had turned into a big fan of the actor who played the superhero. So, thinking that he might enjoy them, my friend got him a couple of other movies of that actor, one of which happened to be a romantic tragedy (Don't ask why?!) where the actor is ambushed, dogged and murdered. Needless to say watching that movie broke the little guys heart, but what he couldn't understand and kept asking us over & again for the next few days was, 'Why didn't he fly away when he was being chased like in the super hero movie?'
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One of my colleagues, who is a graphic designer, was once with his wife at a workshop for little kids, something like a summer camp. So anyways, he was there teaching them basic computer applications like MS Paint, etc. When he finished explaining the paint brush & the colour palette to many curious eyes between age of 4 and 8 yrs, one little boy asked him, 'Who refills the colours in the computer when they are over?' Before he could think of something to say, another little girl answered, 'God does!'
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We have a hired help at home. She has little daughter of age 4. This little girl has a best friend at her pre-school, she admires a lot. One fine day, she asked her mother to make her like her best friend. Her very confused mother asked her how was she supposed to do that. To this the little girl replied, 'Oh, its simple. Just take her (the little girl's friend!) and divide her into two and make one of the parts into me!' It's okay to say that the mother was left dumbfounded.
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