To the editor:
I had almost decided not to bother doing this, but then I read “Cup ‘O Joe” by Joseph Cyr in a recent paper, and that changed my mind, so here goes. I’ve had a daycare for many years and have heard my share of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” I started writing them down in a book years ago and would like to share some of them with you. The children’s names who said these remarks have been omitted as you can see.
Boy No. 3’s father was up on a ladder putting Christmas lights on the house. Boy No. 3 hollered up to him and said, “If you fall off that ladder and break your neck, don’t come crying to me.”
Boy No. 1 said to Boy No. 2, “Do you have a sister?” Boy No. 2, “No, after I came out of my mother’s belly they cancelled it so she didn’t have any more kids.”
I was taking the children outside to play and I told Boy No. 1 to go to the bathroom before we went out. He said, “Oh, I don’t have to; I already went to the bathroom two months ago.”
Girl No. 2 had the hiccups, and every time she tried to talk she would “hick.” She got frustrated and yelled, “Stop it mouth!”
Girl No. 2 and Boy No. 1 were fighting over the toys, and Girl No. 2 said to Boy No. 1, “Now I’m not going to marry you when we grow up, you little jerk.”
It was Jan. 29, and when Boy No. 2’s mother came to pick him up, she asked him what he did in nursery school that day. He said, “We learned about if the warthog comes out of the ground and sees his shadow, we’ll have six more weeks of winter.”
Boy No. 1 was looking at a book and there was a picture of a person having a CAT scan. He asked me how it worked, and I told him it was a machine that was used to see inside a person’s body. He then said, “What, is there a cat inside there that rips you open?”
Boy No. 2 had a cold and all the other children had caught it except the baby. I said, “Don’t get close to the baby, you’ll give her your cold. Boy No. pointed to one of the other children and said, “I don’t have a cold any longer, I gave it to her.”
Boy No. 1 said, “My Grampy has a friend named Grammy.”
Girl No. 1 brought a doll called Baby Checkup to daycare one day. She had a make-believe instrument to give the doll shots, and Boy No. 2 said to Girl No. 1, “Hold her, I’ve got to give her a rooster (booster) shot.”
Jeannette Bouchard
Houlton
