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Babble Talk: When the Kids Take Charge

Jen Chaney — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:02:00 GMT

Sure, kids often say cute things. But occasionally, they say wise, caring things, too.

Like this little gem, recently added to the Kids Say the Cutest Things database of adorable comments. Young Max and Sam had this to say to their mother:

"Why don't you take a time out, Mom. We think you need it."

Now, it's highly possible that the 6- and 4-year-old boys were being smart alecks. After previously being told to take time outs for their bad behavior, perhaps they thought Mom did something that also merited a little solo time in the corner.

But I prefer to read that suggestion this way: The boys could sense that their mother was tired and genuinely wanted to give her a break. Has this ever happened to you? Has one of your children looked at you and said, "Mom, take a day off" or "Dad, I think you could really use a nap"?

Personally, it hasn't happened to me yet. But I look forward to the day when it does so I can jump at the opportunity. "Yes, my son! I do need a time out. Why don't I go take one and you can make dinner, respond to some e-mails and entertain yourself for ... oh, say, the next seven hours?"

If your child has ever recognized that you needed to relax, and told you in particularly pithy fashion, let us know with a Kids Say the Cutest Things contribution of your own. But please, only post it after you' ve taken a lengthy time out. I can sense that you need one.

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Preschoolers with the Baby Blues

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:30:00 GMT

A while back, I was the nanny for a three-year-old boy whose mom had twins. When she first got home from the hospital with the babies, we were all amazed at how unreservedly sweet Thomas was to his new baby sisters.

On day three we learned the reason for his lack of jealousy. One of the newborns was squawking in the other room and he turned to me and announced, “I’m ready to take the babies back to the hospital now.”

A godmother on Babble’s Kids Say the Cutest Things has a hilarious new sibling story of her own: “My 4 year old goddaughter (who has a new baby at home) had the honor of opening the last door on the advent calendar at her preschool. Upon pulling out the baby Jesus sleeping in his manger she announced, 'UCK, the baby Jesus! I HATE BABIES!'"

You know your kids are at their wit's end when even an inanimate baby Jesus is intolerable.

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Babble Talk: Taking a Toilet Straight to South America

Jen Chaney — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:28:00 GMT

Every once in a while, kids put together a string of words that, in our wildest, most bizarre daydreams, we never could have come up with on our own. Such comments are mere toss-offs to children. But to us adults, they sound incredibly imaginative, hilarious and sometimes borderline genius.

Which brings me to the latest notable quotable from Babble's Kids Say the Cutest Things. Here's the quote, followed by the three reasons why it is brilliant:

A mother reports that her two-year-old Noah said the following while she was attempting to cut his nails, a hygenic necessity he clearly does not care for: ""Mommy, I don't like you. Go away. Go drive to Argentina on the potty."

Now, the three reasons why Noah's comment is so tremendous:

1. He isn't merely annoyed with his mother. He's also not so conventional that he merely wants her to go away. No, he has a plan: a specific destination and a means for her to get there.

2. His choice of Argentina wins points for specificity. Why Argentina, Noah? Why not Zimbabwe or New York City or the park in your neighborhood? I don't know, but you do. And that is why you are awesome.

3. Noah has invented an actual new object here: the driveable toilet, which could bring brand new meaning to the term "fuel efficient." If every parent in America could transport him or herself to another place simply by sitting on the toilet, I suspect they would embrace the concept. And just think of how much time you would save by being able to get somewhere while also taking care of that, ahem, other important business! Forget the electric car. Let's just leapfrog straight to the electric car-toilet.

Think your child has said something just as imaginative and forward-thinking as young Noah? Then add the quote to Kids Say the Cutest Things and give him a run for his Argentina-transporting money. Bonus points to any child who can turn other household appliances into modes of transportation.

Babble Talk: When Kids Speak Like Grownups

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:35:00 GMT

It always cracks me up when kids surprise me with adult language—well, not that kind of adult language, but sophisticated concepts or idioms that they’ve picked up on their own.

A while back, I was spending the weekend with the boys I used to nanny for while their parents were away. On day two, the three-year-old had the inevitable I-miss-mommy meltdown. I tried to calm him down by commiserating, saying that I missed my mom, too, since she lived far away. “She has to take an airplane to come visit me,” I said. He looked up at me and asked tearfully: “Is it a prop plane or a jet plane?” A heated discussion of the relative merits and uses of prop versus jet planes ensued.

Today’s Kids Say the Cutest Things has a quote along these lines that made me laugh out loud. A parent writes, “We recently moved to a new house. My three-year-old told me she likes this house a lot better. When I asked her why, she said, ‘At our old house, the curtains always got on my nerves.’”

Poor thing, having to put up with those awful curtains all those years…

Photo: Corbis

Babble Talk: The Three-Year-Old Philosopher

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:30:00 GMT

When I was younger, I played an odd game with myself. I would stare at my reflection in the bathroom mirror until my face became entirely unfamiliar to me, the way a word loses its meaning if you say it over and over and over.

The shift was definitive: one minute I was the little girl I thought I was; the next I was staring at an odd conglomeration of shapes and colors poured into girl form. The feeling was exhilarating, mind-altering—the six year-old’s Jim Beam.

I’ve tried this experiment as an adult, and the shift never occurs. I’m just too accustomed to taking for granted certain facts about the world—such as, the reflection in the mirror = me. But one of the reasons kids can be such good company is that they remind us to question the most mundane facts about life.

On Babble’s Kids Say the Cutest Things, a three-year-old wondered, “Why do I live in my body?” To even begin to come up with this question requires such an unself-conscious curiosity about the world that it allows room for ALL possibilities. I mean, what the heck, why can’t we live inside an airplane or a warm, lazy blanket? Why couldn’t three-year-old Chase live inside his brother’s body or his best friend's? Would he still be Chase?

The hard part is explaining that some of the best questions don’t have answers.

Photo: Daan Stringer

Babble Talk: When Even the Kiddies are Money-Conscious

Jen Chaney — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Everyone wants to save money these days. Apparently even the two-year-olds. Well, at least one does, according to an item posted in "Kids Say the Cutest Things!"

According to a recent item, a little guy named Jaxon wasn't messing around when he got a few coins into his toddler-sized hands. "We gotta put this money in my account!" he declared, referring, of course, to his piggy bank. The way some of us are accruing interest these days, Jaxon, we might all be better off if we turned our bank accounts into piggy banks.

Have you heard similar comments -- either funny or serious -- from your kids that indicate they are counting their pennies or concerned about money? Then add it to our "Kids Say the Cutest Things!" feature and see if the statement out-"awwws" Jaxon's quote, which right now only has an "awww" rating of 2.

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Babble Talk: I Dare You to Cheer Me Up

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:40:00 GMT

There’s little that’s more irritating than being around an insufferably cheerful person when you’re in a bad mood. Sometimes life is crappy and disappointing, and you just have to wallow in it for a while.

Even three year-olds understand this. On Babble’s Kids Say the Cutest Things, a parent learned that sometimes there’s no easy fix for a bad mood: “Our 3-year old was supposed to spend the afternoon with Grandma, but when my mom got sick, she was very disappointed. I thought taking her to McDonald’s (which is VERY rare) would be a special treat to cheer her up. I asked her if she wanted a Happy Meal, to which she responded, ‘No, I feel like I should have a Grumpy Meal today.’”

This little girl is an emotional realist. I mean, would Ronald McDonald cheer you up if you were phenomenally disappointed? Of course not. But I, for one, would still take a free Grumpy Meal.

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Babble Talk: Now This You Don't Hear Every Day

Jen Chaney — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:02:00 GMT

Many of the quotes added to our Kids Say the Cutest Things feature make me smile. Every once in a while, they provoke an "awww" response. But only the rarest actually makes me laugh out loud. Recently I found one that did just that. And here it is:

Writes the parent: "While shopping in Ikea, my 3-year-old daughter picked up a cheese grater and said, 'Well, you don't see this everyday.'"

One of two things is going on with this kid. Either a., her family genuinely never grates cheddar, swiss or Havarti, in which case she is merely speaking the truth. Which is still kinda funny. Or option b.: at the age of 3, she already has an incredibly well-developed sense of irony.

I prefer the latter option, which makes me think there is no telling what sort of gems this girl will come up with by the time she hits the age of 5 or 6.

Does your child also bust out some comedy classics while shopping at Ikea, maybe a gutbuster about their Swedish meatballs or the fact that they actually sell a bed called Sniglar? Then add them to our Kids Say the Cutest Things feature and let the LOLing continue.

How Do You Spell 'Burberry'?

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:30:00 GMT

It’s so much fun to hear language be manhandled by kids who are highly verbal but still preliterate. Their untrained ears find hilarious and creative sounds in words that we adults have memorized too well to really hear anymore.

When I was little, I used to think that the word “reconnoiter” was actually a phrase: wreck and order. Whenever my mom suggested that we reconnoiter a beach or a park, I thought we were going to trash the joint and then clean up after ourselves—which is, actually, pretty much what we did.

A four-year-old featured on today’s Kids Say the Cutest Things had a very sophisticated linguistic misunderstanding about her stuffed animal. Here’s how her mom or dad explained it: “My daughter has a bear that has a Burberry pattern scarf. The lady at the portrait studio asked what her bear was called and my 4 year old responded, ‘His name is BurBear, but I don't know what his last name is. It's starts with an E.’”

It makes so much sense that a four-year-old heard the “bear” in Burberry, while we adults only hear the cha-ching of the cash register.

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Babble Talk – The Color Blind Kid

Brett Singer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT

I'm not one of the people who thinks that racism is over now that Barack Obama is President. (Call me when Black people can hail a cab in Manhattan.)

That said, I do think that it's fair to hope that future generations will be less inclined to judge others by the color of their skin. This quote from Kids Say The Cutest Things illustrates this point:

Six year old Hanna.."Daddy why are Black people Black and White people White"...Daddy "Well because that is the way God made us"...Hanna "Oh..well can you tell God that my favorite color is PINK!"

Aw. Maybe one day we can all just get along. Or at least get a cab.

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Babble Talk: A Musical Response

Jen Chaney — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Since the Grammy Awards were held last night, I decided to go with a musical theme today when choosing to highlight a notable quote from Kids Say the Cutest Things. In that spirit, the award for Best Euphemism for the Hiccups goes to ... two-year-old Anastasia! Here is what she said...

After busting out a few "hics," the little girl turned to her mother and gleefully declared: "Mama, I have the hip-hops!"

If you have a case of the hip-hops, does that mean you get to be in a Kanye West video? Or that, like Jay-Z did last night, you qualify to rap alongside Christ Martin from Coldplay?

I don't know, but I kind of wish I had the hip-hops myself.

Do your kids have any musical ailments or other pithy comments you'd like to share? Then please, spit their rhymes directly into our Kids Say the Cutest Things feature.

The Zen of Not Eating, According to a Four-Year-Old

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT

I've heard kids make up some pretty good excuses not to eat: "I need to share my lunch with Zoe [the dog]." "My tummy is only hungry for cookies." "It makes me sad when you give me carrots."

But this excuse from four-year-old Noah, taken from Babble's Kids Say the Cutest Things, definitely takes the cake (no pun intended). After his mother tried in vain to get him to eat his lunch, Noah announced, "Mom, food is good and all, but you know what tastes great and is always in your mouth!? Your tongue!"

You have to admit there's something Zen about Noah's thinking--all of the striving and preparing and arguing we do for balanced meals, never pausing for a second to notice that our mouths are already full! Honestly, how many of us ever take the time to just be still for a few moments and enjoy the taste of our own tongues?

Thanks, Noah! You've really put things in perspective.

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Babble Talk: Did a Kid Really Say That?

Jen Chaney — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:02:00 GMT

Regular readers of this blog know that we often highlight particularly adorable/insightful/funny additions to Babble's Kids Say the Cutest Things feature. I was in the process of trying to find a Monday quote of the day that fit that description when I happened upon a submission that ... well ... smells a little fishy. I mean, there is no way a child actually said the following, is there?

"The machinery of capitalism is oiled with the blood of the workers." The quote is attributed to ... um ... Timmy, age 5.

Now, it's entirely possible that Timmy is a budding young Communist. Or it's possible that he was quoting that "Simpsons" episode where Homer had to break up a fight between Lisa and their Albanian exchange student, Adil: "Please, please, kids, stop fighting. Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil's got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers."

But I'm thinking someone was having a little bit of fun with Kids Say the Cutest Things. The most amusing part about it, actually? The quote scored a 3 on the "Awwww!" meter.

So, in summary: If your child recently has said something incredibly insightful and anti-capitalist, please, add it to Kids Say the Cutest Things. We don't discriminate here at Babble, even against little commie pinkos like Timmy.

Babble Talk: Kids Say the Most Violent Things

Jen Chaney — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:02:00 GMT

When teaching our children the difference between bad and good, sometimes we have to be careful that they don't push things a little too far. You know, take matters into their own hands and turn into baby vigilantes.

Which brings me to the quote of the day from Kids Say the Cutest Things, the Babble feature that literally borrows online content from the mouths of babes. Young Declan asks his mom, "Mommy, are burglars mean? Are they bad?" And she responds: "Yes, they are bad, because they steal things from people." So Declan asks...

"So that means we should hit a burglar with with something hard if we see one, right?"

Now I am not saying Declan is going to go all rogue and start attacking home invaders, especially when he has his mom to set him straight. But I am saying that if someone breaks into my house, Declan is just the sort of third-year-old I'd want to have watching my back.

Has your child said something funny/adorable/rebellious lately? Add his or her quote to Kids Say the Cutest Things and let that kid's pithiness shine.

Babble Talk: Anatomy and Physiology

Amy Kuras — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:01:00 GMT

Kids are famous for having no filter and absolutely no shame about discussing, at top volume, the more private aspects of their bodily functions and body parts. My mother still tells a story about me going to a fabric store with her when I was about the age my daughter is now, and wanting to disappear into the floor while I gleefully flipped through pattern books while annoucing "THIS person has a PENIS! This person has a VAGINA!"

So I found the following two entries in "Kids Say the Cutest Things" thoroughly hilarious.

"In trying to adjust pants that were just a little to tight, my six year-old exclaimed, 'These pants are squishing my peanuts!' -- Holden, 6"

and:

"Whenever we pass the bra and panty mannequins in the mall, it's become a habit for my 17 month old daugther to yell 'BOOBIES!!!' Noel, Virginia"

Too funny, if a little mortifying. Maybe I should send that last one to Mom.....

Want to share your own little one's bon mots with the world? Click on over to the link above!

Babble Talk: Keep That Kid Away From The Police

Brett Singer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

In general when our kids say something inappropriate, they don't mean to. That is, they just mix up a word or two.

Of course, there are mix ups and there are mix ups. Like this one:

Calls popcorn "Cop porn" – Rylee (3)

This isn't likely to be a problem. Unless you are at the movies and there is an officer of the law nearby. "Hey, Dad, thanks for the Cop Porn!" Could be a little problematic.

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Kids to Obama: Read Books, Eat More Ice Cream

JeanneSager — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:36:00 GMT

Ah, if only life were this simple. A collection of letters written by children to President-Elect Barack Obama were highlighted in the New York Times last week.

Their number one pick? A series of junk food suggestions from a little girl who thinks the president elect needs to put on some weight.

The letter is, of course, pure kid - "You look too skinny. You should eat more food. this is what you should eat:" followed by a list of foods I'd love to eat but only let my daughter have on special occasions. You can get all upset that this child doesn't value "healthy" foods, or you can look at it purely from the eyes of a child. She thinks the president looks hungry. She likes him enough to suggest he eat better. And, hey, who wouldn't want a buddy to fatten up on ice cream, buttered popcorn and cotton candy?

Others in the list were written by older children, and with that comes a bit more worldliness. Most moving to me is the letter from a twelve-year-old who says her parents are split down political lines, with one highly conservative and the other ultra-liberal. "Thank you for bringing my parents somewhat closer together. :) You are my idol Mr. Barack," she says.

I admit it; it doesn't take much to get me all weepy about the future of our country. But that letter in particular brought on the little pricks in the corner of my eyes. Because after reading about the parents who refuse to let their kids attend school on Tuesday lest they see the wrong (in their eyes) president inaugurated, it's nice to know there are parents out there who don't agree with the president-elect and are still raising kids to be thoughtful, accepting, and productive members of society.

To read the whole list - from suggestions that he get more kids reading to requests to help their families get jobs, check out the Times piece. Bring the tissues.

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Babble Talk: Dude Looks Like a Puppy

Brett Singer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

There's a routine by a comedian whose name I can't recall that I always liked. In it, the comic talks about his son and how little kids are honest to a fault. The boy walks up to heavyset woman wearing a Guess? shirt and says, "I don't know. 280? 285?" And so on.

I was reminded of that routine by today's edition of Kids Say The Cutest Things:

"I didn't know dogs can drive cars!" said by my daughter Madelyne, 3, when she saw a not so attractive person driving a car past us who resembled a dog.

On the one hand, we want our children to be honest. On the other hand, there are times when being honest is not a good idea. When you receive a birthday present you don't like, you don't say, "Gee, this sucks." You say, "Thank you for the gift."

Or if you see a person who is particularly unattractive, it probably isn't such a great idea to refer to them as a K-9. I'm just saying.

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Babble Talk: When the Kid Wants Mom to Shut It

Jen Chaney — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:02:00 GMT

So the feature is called Kids Say the Cutest Things. And I am not sure if my choice for today's quote of the day necessarily qualifies as cute. But it's brutally candid. And pretty funny.

As parents we spend a whole lot of time telling our kids to hush, quiet down or -- if it's been a particularly bad day and our nerves are frayed -- shut-up. So it's only fair that sometimes the kids turn the tables and tell us to pipe down.

Which might explain why a three-year-old boy said the following to his father: "'When is mom going to stop talking so we can get our job done?"

Answer, my child? Never. Mommies always have important things to say.

Speaking of, has your kid said something smart (or smart alecky) recently? Then post it on Kids Say the Cutest Things. If nothing else, it'll keep you quiet for a minute so your kids can finally get their work done.

Daddy Club Rule: Don't Argue Kids Shows

JeanneSager — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:24:00 GMT

I wonder if the puppy blogs miss me. Because I've been getting my much-needed (in this economy, anyway) fix of "yes, things are right in this world," from Kids Say the Cutest Things here on Babble of late.

Who doesn't want to share their kidlet's latest cutie pie saying with people who actually CARE to hear it? As in someone other than the guy at the coffee pot at work whose eyes start to glaze over just around the words "and yesterday, she said . . . "

But as we've got KSCT already taking care of the kid quotes, I'll spare you mine (or at least let you make your own guesses as to which on there might have been inspired by the three-year-old in the Sager household). As for the adult conversations - I'm sorry, you're in the same boat as the coffee guy.

Because if there's one thing my husband is slowly starting to learn, it's DON'T argue with the kid over kid stuff. We'll call it Daddy Club Rule number one. You might be in decade three of life on this planet, but let's face it - you're clueless.

Case in point - the argument last week over the dancing robot on Noggin. "It's Brobee," my husband said. "Noooo, Daddy, it's Plex," (said with appropriately exaggerated eye roll).

"Brobee."

"Plex."

You get the idea. I sat through this, and because no one likes to hear "I told you so," I stayed silent. Until the next episode of Yo Gabba Gabba came on anyway. The "magic robot?" Yeah, her name is Plex. Brobee is "the little green one."

It's not that my husband is always wrong. It's that he bothers to belabor the point with a three-year-old . . . about a TV show character. If we were fighting about the name of the president (Dick Cheney, duh), I've told him, he should go full bore. But it's a dancing fluff ball. On TV.

So Dads, this is from my husband to all of you - the first rule of Daddy Club, don't talk about kid shows.

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Babble Talk: Fighting Around the Christmas Tree

Amy Kuras — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:31:00 GMT

Yes, they believe we can change the color of traffic lights by blowing on them, that we can make whatever they want to eat magically appear, and sometimes even fall for our explanations of why the sky is blue or why water is wet – but you can’t BS kids on the really important stuff.

And never does this become more apparent than when they’re sorting out family relationships. Let’s just say I’ve learned to be verrryyy careful when I complain to my husband about certain people.

That may have been what the little one who’s my pick for the Babble kid's quote of the day had in mind – although it was most likely adorable toddler mispronunciation:

"Mommy I love all the Christmas arguments," while looking at our ornaments!

At least someone does, kiddo.

Got a sweet little quote machine in your house (and really, who doesn’t)? Click on over to our “Kids Say The Cutest Things” feature and you might see us highlighting your kid’s brilliance in a post.

Babble Talk: Kids Tackling Global Poverty

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:34:00 GMT

When my niece was six, she asked me why rich people didn’t just invite homeless people to live with them. It was winter in Boston, and she simply couldn’t understand why people with homes—including her own family—didn’t allow homeless people (“only the nice ones”) to sleep on their couches or in the guest bedrooms. While commending her altruistic impulse, I gingerly explained the safety concerns of inviting strangers into your home.

Kids’ inability to grasp the entrenchment of global pandemics—poverty, homelessness, racism—is bittersweet. At first, you’re touched by their easy, natural compassion and their hope that they’ll be able to solve these problems when they get older; but then, you’re saddened when you have to explain that the world is much harder to fix than they believe.

This could have been the thinking of the mother of a 7-year-old boy featured on today’s Kids Say the Cutest Things. While walking to the bathroom with his mom in the middle of the night, he said, "It is sad that some people don't have homes. When I grow up and am the richest man or woman in the world, I'm going to buy all the homeless people houses."

He may not be able to carry out this exact goal, but with such a good heart, this little boy is bound to contribute to society in some meaningful ways.

Photo: friendswithoutborders.org

Babble Talk: Points For Honesty

Brett Singer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT

One of the first posts I wrote on Babble was about certain words that toddler's should never, ever say in polite company. One of them was the phrase "fork and spoon."

In case you've forgotten, here's why:

(Fork - r = Fok) + (In - n = n) + Spoon = Fokkin' Spoon

Many people weighed in with their own toddler-isms, such as the child who walked around asking everyone where his stick was – except that he replaced the "st" with "d". That must have been fun.

Over at 'Kids Say The Cutest Things', this kid, I think, wins the prize. Not only does he/she say a four-letter word, he/she seems to know that he/she is saying a four-letter word. Please forgive my language... well, it's not my language, it's theirs:

mommy dosen't like when i say fire truck because i can't talk very good so I usually say fire fuck

Hard to argue with that one, right?

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Babble Talk: Kids Say the Cutest Things ... About Poop?

Jen Chaney — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Everyone poops. We know this. Entire books have been written on the subject. And obviously, children of potty training age -- or for that matter, even older -- find the word "poop" and all its scatalogical cousins absolutely hilarious.

Yet even though I am well aware of this information, I have still been amazed by the number of Kids Say the Cutest Things! submissions that have centered around toilet activity.

One example:

"Today I will go poo-poo in the big potty. And it will be very loud."

Another:

"Me: Did you poop in your diaper?

Rowan, 15 months: No.

Me: Who did, then?

Rowan: Grandma!!!"

And another, courtesy of 2-year-old Cayden:

"(Leaning on the toilet to get his bottom wiped) 'K-O-H-L-E-R. Says potty!'"

I'll concede that these fall into the funny and cute category. But they still make me wonder why parents tend to remember their kids' witty bathroom commentary so well. Is it the strange intimacy of the activity that makes everything about it seem comical? Are we suffering from Freudian-style anal fixations? Or is toilet humor simply the finest comedy known to humankind?

Perhaps I am getting a bit too philosophical about all this. But if you have theories, feel free to share them in the comments below. And if you have some funny, adorable kid quotes, scatalogical or otherwise, by all means submit them to Kids Say the Cutest Things! They can be about poop if you want. Seriously. I don't give a ... well, you know.

Babble Talk: The Wisdom of No Consequences

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:00:00 GMT

In honor of New Year’s Eve, I’d like to give a brief shout-out to two-year-old Jonathan. His quote on today’s Kids Say The Cutest Things perfectly captures the rules I think we’d all like to govern our New Year’s Eve celebrations.

When his mother told him, “If you do not listen to Mommy, there will be consequences,” Jonathan shouted, “NO CONSEQUENCES!” Man, I know how he feels. Consequences are such a drag.

Here’s to heeding Jonathan’s advice, just for tonight….

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