Kidding Moments 29
‘Mama, is her face melting?’ my three year old son asked upon seeing his grandmother. I had to explain that what he saw were wrinkles that come with aging.
Just before Christmas, my daughter picked up her doll and said, ‘I hope I get a baby that talks next year! I’m so bored,’ Well, that was a good enough hint for baby number two!
A teacher once asked her kindergarten kids to try doing a multiplication sum without using tables. Derrick, the prefect of the class, wrote on the floor. And as the teacher approached to ask what was wrong, he looked up and said, ‘You said we should not use tables.’
My four year old daughter, Amondi, was in the supermarket with me when we came across another mother and her fussy son. Amondi started talking to the child who became even fussier, and started to cry. The mother upon seeing this quickly interjected that he was probably hungry. It was then that Amondi parted the baby affectionately saying, ‘If you are hungry, you can drink from my breast, it’s okay.’
Myra, my very inquisitive daughter, asks her father one day when they are upcountry, ‘When goats grow up do they become cows?’ Her absent minded father having not heard the question answers with a firm nod—just as always.
‘Mum, if Jesus had waited to be born in our house, he would have had space in my bedroom, isn’t it?’ Asked my son on the evening after the Christmas Sunday school service.
‘Dad, why do you not taste the pages of the book as my teachers do while going to the next page,’ my son asked the father one evening as he was assisting him with his homework.
Do you have a Kidding moment?
Send it to BabyLove@integral-media.co.ke
Parenting Moments
A man was driving his family back home after a visit to their parents when the baby began crying. The mother tried effortlessly to calm him down. Suddenly, the father bellowed, shut up I cannot see!
A toddler stood amazed at an array of grocery in the supermarket. The mother walked over to see what caught his interest. After a while and not being able to establish what he was looking at, she said, ‘Come on Dan, let’s go, those are not trees that you can climb, they are broccoli.’
‘When I grow up I want to marry daddy,’ a young girl was telling their house-help. Then the mother walked into the room and said, ‘Oh no you can’t. I got him first.’
My three year old son was always curious to have our newborn participate in our conversations and nod or laugh when we laughed. So one time he went to teach him the hi-fives. I had to say, ‘Babies do not like high-fives,’ to stop him from disturbing his three weeks old sister.
A mother told his son who could not be stopped from jumping off every high surface in the house – table, seat, kitchen counter and the like,‘Keep on jumping. If you break your legs, don’t come running to me.’
‘No, sweetie, pee does not come from peanuts,’ Said the mother of a child who was asking a question in a supermarket.
Do you have a Parenting moment? Send it to BabyLove@integral-media.co.ke