Beech Tree News Network

You may recall entertainer, Art Linkletter, once had a TV show called Kids Say the Darndest Things…. They did and do your kids; my kids; everybody’s kids. 
    Our only grandson, Lute (Luther), came home from first day at pre-school, all down and delighted:  “You just don’t know what kind of bad day I’ve had”, he said. Asked what went wrong he said, “They me color in the lines.”
    Graduation to a higher grade can be traumatic for a youngster. When our friends’ son graduated to first from kindergarten after lunch the first day he began putting his coat on to go home.  They told him he couldn’t go home yet he would have to stay the day.  He thought a moment and said, “Who signed me up for this anyway?”  Kids have wonderful misfires.  One day our middle granddaughter, Katey, about three, asked her mother if she could watch the video, “Hot dogs go to heaven” (All Dogs go to Heaven). 
    When our oldest granddaughter, Bettsy, was asked to say the blessing, she would say (She too was about three at the time), “Let us bawky-poo” (let us thank you for the food).kids pick up things from play school, you of course knew that.  When our youngest granddaughter, Annie’s dad was helping her with her drinking straw he accidently bent it.  Supposedly she meant to say “Oh daddy…you broke my straw.” Instead she said, “Dang it daddy, you broke my heart.”  One night Annie was preparing for bed.  Her eye doctor had given her a child pair of glasses, with clear lenses.  A sample no doubt.  She came in wearing her night clothes, house shoes and her “glasses”.  Climbing up into her daddy’s lap, he asked her why the glasses.  “Well duh”, she said, “I just took my contacts out.”  At church “mother’s day out”, the kids were asked their favorite food; to write it down and tell how to prepare it-they were just learning how to print.  One kid wrote, “My favorite food is a peanut butter and jeddy sandwich.   “You out the peanut butter and jeddy on bread.  Then you put in the oven for four hours.”
    At the beginning of mentioned Art Linkletter and his kids show: “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”  One time Art went way out on thin ice and asked where babies came from.  One little guy said, “Well I think it starts when they get married.  You know at the end when the preacher tells the boy he can kiss the girl.  It’s just a little kiss then.  Then they go off on a trip together- I think they sleep with each other.  I think they do some more kissing, I don’t know how much- but more than at the wedding. ““Then when they get home and sleep with each other again, I think they really kiss and kiss, and kiss some more, this time.”  “Then they get a baby.”  Well spoken.
                                Kindest regards……