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paints

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The things children say
« on: February 23, 2019, 12:20:36 pm »
A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day, a construction crew came in and began building a house on the empty lot. The family's 5-year-old daughter became interested in all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers.

Eventually, the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they took coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the first week, the men presented her with a pay envelope which contained $20.00. The little girl took this home to her mother, who said all the appropriate words of admiration, and suggested that they take the money she received to the bank to start a savings account.

When they talked to the bank teller, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had earned her very own pay check at such a young age. The child proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us."

"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will if those *bleep* at Home Depot ever deliver the *bleep*' sheet rock..."

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Re: The things children say
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2019, 03:42:45 pm »
You  never know what is going to come out the mouths of babes, they  pick up so much from the  grown ups. The  first time  my youngest one got me was when he was two. Now  first you have to know they were raised on a farm and we  did not have  colored people in our little town or county. We came to the city to shop and I was in the check out line and one is  just in front of me and my son turned to me and wanted to know why he was so black. Took a little  talking to him. But the man was not  upset. Just smiled and I told him my kids were  little  country  bumkins .    He continued for  several years to  get me.  Boy was I glad when he hit 5 then it  qit.

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Re: The things children say
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2019, 08:03:16 pm »
The first word my nephew ever said was sh**. 

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Re: The things children say
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2019, 06:24:42 am »
My 2 year old grandson is starting to talk.  I have warned my daughter and son-in-law to watch their words carefully or they may be repeated in public!
Have a wonderful day!

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Re: The things children say
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2019, 06:50:38 am »
Children only repeat what they have heard, so watch what you say around children.  One day it will not be funny anymore.

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Re: The things children say
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2019, 08:12:39 am »
Fortunately my 3 year old grandson so far does not use the foul mouth language of his father (who only shows up once in a while).   Most of the time he just sounds way smarter than the age he is. which is always shocking people.

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