Kids say the cutest things

[fireheart]

From a little girl today to her mum: "Mummy, what's cash?"



Any other cute ones?

[tollbaby]

My kids (8 and 11) don't seem to have much concept of where money comes from. My daughter wanted McDonald's for dinner the other night. We can't, I said, Mummy has no money. So she pipes up, "Just go to the bank and get some more. They always have lots!" .... err, if only it was that easy LOL

[elsporko]

^ My parents used the fact that I didn't understand money well to their advantage

Me: Can I have this comic book?

Mom: No, we just bought you one last month and can't afford another

Me: Okay


*19 years later looking at the comic book*

Me: This only cost a dollar. Like hell they couldn't afford to buy me one every month.

[Merriweather]

^ My parents used the fact that I didn't understand money well to their advantage

Me: Can I have this comic book?

Mom: No, we just bought you one last month and can't afford another

Me: Okay


*19 years later looking at the comic book*

Me: This only cost a dollar. Like hell they couldn't afford to buy me one every month.

Oh, they can be SO cute when they don't get the concept of amounts of money. When my DD was just two and a half years old, we had a dog that had a bad habit of dashing out when the front door was open. Definitely a no-no in military housing. DD had been taught not to open the screen door, to get a grown up, as we could stop the dog and she couldn't. So of course, eventually, she opened the screen door, dog dashed out, and I was in the middle of something and had to wait a few minutes to go track her down - and she was nabbed by animal control.

So we had to go downtown, and bail her out of the pound. Definitely an unexpected dent on that month's budget. So i sat DD down, and had a straight talk on how she had opened the door when she knew she shouldn't have, and we'd had to pay a lot of money to get her puppy back, so don't ask for toys or anything when we go to the store for a while. She was very solemn, apologized, and said ok, it was worth it to have her puppy home.

I didn't realize just how much she took it to heart, though, til almost two weeks later, we were at the grocery store. She picked up a small candy bar, looked at it, then gently put it back on the shelf, saying "I'd really like to have that candy, but I know we spent all our money on getting my puppy back, so that's ok".

[infinitemonkies]

Here's an awesome one that made me crack up:

In the lobby of the hotel, Guest is checking out, and her 7 year-old daughter observes: "Fat people need to learn that wearing skinny jeans don't make you skinny, they make you look even fatter."

[fireheart]

I think I've mentioned it before, but this one requires a bit of background:

In some stores, there is a plastic guard dog sitting in a location with a coin slot in its head. Money gets put in it which goes to the Royal Society for the Blind.

I served a 3-year-old girl and her mum. Towards the end, the little girl pipes up "Mummy, the dog has a headache!"

Turns out she thought the dog's coin slot meant it had a headache and she needed to "fix it" by putting money in its head.

[Sheldonrs]

Then there's the adorable kid I see sometimes at my bus stop who can't be more than 10 or 11 who almost always asks me if he can bum a cigarette from me.

Doesn't get any cuter than that!

[Boozy]

Some kids aren't angels, but why bring that up in a thread about cute things children say?

Let those of us that like these kinds of stories have our fun, okay?

[Green_Fairy]

i babysit a 7 year old and i noticed in her room she has a poster of the jonas brothers. she took a sharpie to two of them, giving them eye-patches, black teeth, scars, ect. i asked her why she didn't do that to the one in the center and she said "he's funny looking enough. doesn't need my help"

she's adorable ^_^

[Ree]

I walked by the bathroom the other night when I was babysitting my granddaughter.
She was sitting on the toilet, going potty, and she had done it all by herself.
I clapped my hands and said, "Good girl. Grandma's so proud of you. You did it all by yourself. What a big girl you are."

She said, "Now Grandma's turn."
I said, "Oh no, sweetie, Grandma doesn't need to use the potty right now."

Fast forward about 20 minutes, and I was in the bathroom. The door came swinging open, and there was my granddaughter, clapping her little hands in glee, and smiling, saying, "Oh Grandma, good girl."

[Green_Fairy]

picked up The Boy's daughter today. as we were pulling up to my house (where she's been like...3 times in the past 2 years), she said "Green Fairy's house!"
i...kinda got a little giddy that she remembered. and she actually remembered my name is pretty awesome too.

[Primer]

Back in the Dark Ages, when I was but a tot, my mom took me with her to get some work done on her car. As was common way back then, places used to give toys to the little kids that came through. The mechanic gave me a little crash-car, and Mom prompted me with, "Now what do you say?" I smiled brightly and said, "Charge it!"

[Mishi]

I have two...make that three:
The other night:
Me: "JazzyBee, close your robe please, you're not Hugh Hefner."
JazzyBee: "Mummy, why aren't I Hugh Hefner?"

Later that night:
She was posing in her PJ's, tucking her hair behind her ears, smiling, tilting her head and generally admiring her reflection. I asked "Are you going to be a model?"
JazzyBee answered "Nope, I'm going to be a star."
Me: "Why do you want to be a star sweetheart?"
JazzyBee - "Because models don't get to eat ice cream and stars get to eat whatever they want!!"

The other morning:
JazzyBee: "Mummy, I like 1 and 0 the best."
Me: "Why's that sweetheart?"
JazzyBee: "They make my computer run."

...I've never told her about binary...

[PentUpRage]

Couple of years ago I attempted to sell my house, my daughter was 8 at the time. The Realtor sign had one of those clear plastic boxes attached to it for the information sheets and one day my daughter says "mom, I check that box every day and NO ONE ever puts money in there!

[Seshat]

My niece, to my mother, looking at her breasts. "Nanny, you've got big ones of those."

(My sister-in-law is slightly built. My side of the family is more - uh - generous.)