Kids! Why we love 'em!

[ahippiechic]

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four-year-old boy whose next door neighbor was an elderly man. The man had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing. I just helped him cry."

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Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture had a different color hair than the other family members. One child suggested that he was adopted.

A little girl said, "I know all about adoptions because I was adopted."

"What does it mean to be adopted?" asked another child.

"It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy."

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A four-year-old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As the doctor looked into her ears with an otiscope he asked, "Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?"

The little girl stayed silent.

Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked down her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster down there?"

Again, the little girl was silent.

Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?"

"Oh, no!" the little girl replied. "God is in my heart. Barney's on my underpants."

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As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home.

I sat down behind the bench on the first- base line and asked one of the boys what the score was.

"We're behind fourteen to nothing," he told me with a smile.

"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."

"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."


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Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and thin! k about little Jamie Scott.

Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.

On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what, Mom?" he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer."

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Originally posted by ahippiechic

Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?"

"Oh, no!" the little girl replied. "God is in my heart. Barney's on my underpants."



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awww how cute...

[Juggalette]

AWWWWW I am going to have to send that to a couple of people . My son was in preschool and there was a kid in his class that needed to go to speech therapy but was too scared , my son went up to him and the teacher and said he would go with him so every day he went with the lil boy to his therapy and sat quitely while he learned , I was so proud of him when his teacher told me that I started crying. Kids you gotta love em .