"Don't Argue"
Don't Argue with Children!
This is for all those teachers out
there.
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The
teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow
a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat
was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed
by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could
not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl
said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah". The teacher asked,
"What if Jonah went to hell?" The little girl replied,"Then you ask him".
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while
they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's
work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently,
she asked what the drawing was The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."
The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl
replied, "They will in a minute."
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with
her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to
"honor" thy Father and thy Mother," she asked, "is there a
commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family)
answered, "Thou shall not kill."
An honest seven-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy
Brown had kissed her after class. "How did that happen?" gasped
her mother. "It wasn't easy," admitted the young lady, "but three
girls helped me catch him."
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do
the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her
mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast
on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively
asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother
replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make
me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl
thought about this revelation for while and then said, "Momma,
how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"
A three-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens.
On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother that
there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens. "How did you
know?" his mother asked. "Daddy picked them up and looked
underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was
trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all
grownup and say, 'There's Kay, she's a lawyer' or 'That's Joey.
He's a doctor.'" A small voice at the back of the room rang out,
"And there's the teacher. She's dead."
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood.
Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I
stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and
I would turn red in the face." "Yes," the class said. "Then why
is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position
the blood doesn't run into my feet?"? A little fellow shouted,
"Cause yer feet ain't empty!"
Bruce Benninghoff
bruce@prolynx.com
