A question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds:

"What does love mean?"

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think...

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri-age4

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." Karen - age 4

A woman invited some people to dinner. At the table, she tuned to her six-year-old daughter and said: "Would you like to say the blessing?"

"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.

"Just say what you hear Mommy say," the woman answered. The daughter bowed her head and said: "Lord, why did I invite all these people to dinner?"

A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore, where a sea gull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.

"He died and went to Heaven," the dad replied.

The boy thought a moment and then said: "Did God throw him back down?"

After being told that I threw her old toothbrush in the bin because it was "gedaan" (old) Lisa asked "Is grandpa also gedaan? Me: "Yes" Lisa: But we can't throw him in the dustbin"!!!

How Does a Person Decide Who to Marry?

"You flip a nickel, and heads means you stay with him and tails means you try the next one." Kally, age 9

How Can a Stranger Tell if Two People are Married? 

"You might have to guess based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids." Derrick, age 8

What the Children Would Do on a First Date That Was Turning Sour?

"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." Craig, age9

When is It Okay to Kiss Someone?

"When they're rich!" Pam, age 7

"The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." Curt, age 7

What Advice Do You Have for a Young Couple About to Be Married?  

"The first thing I'd say to them is: 'Listen up, youngins ... I got something to say to you. Why in the heck do you wanna get married, anyway?" Craig, age 9

Both of my children mastered the computer at early ages, including turning the computer off and on and using pull-down menus. However, my three-year-old son also seemed to pick up the terminology. Lately, when his sister is annoying him and he wants her to be quiet he says, "Shut down!"

"Sir, would you like some of my candy?"  

"Thank you, young man. that`s very generous of you."

"Is it tasty?" "Sure is." "That's strange - both my guinea pig and my cat spit it out.