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AIBU to think my DD (2.5yrs) is a philosophical genius?

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LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 03/12/2011 20:32

... to come out with this little gem:

"If you're happy and you know it, can you really show it?"

Grin
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StealthPolarBear · 05/12/2011 20:31

I love these especially fish mo cry and the little boy whose first sentence was about his mum's winky :)

pranma · 05/12/2011 21:18

When my dss heard people talking about something that happened before he was born he said,'Ah that was when I was playing chess with God'.he was nearly 4 at the time.

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 05/12/2011 21:21

7 yr old DS shone a torch on the ceiling and moved the light beam quickly - then he asked me if that was the speed of light Grin.

ViviPrudolf · 05/12/2011 21:21

I heart this thread

ReadySteadyDrink · 05/12/2011 21:39

When DS was 18 months he pointed to a tree outside and said "look, tree broken". He was looking at a tree in winter that had lost all its leaves.

funnypeculiar · 05/12/2011 21:45

Dd (5): I can actually hear God you know...
Me: Really, what does he say?
Dd: That I'm right

Pretty much sums up her life philosophy.

FiveHoursSleep · 05/12/2011 21:46

DD3 is 5, and was eating breakfast while gazing up at our Elf on the Shelf a couple of days ago.
Fresh from her latest RE lesson , she said 'Mummy, the Elf on the Shelf is a bit like Jesus isn't he?'
I wasn't really listening so just said ' Is he, dear?'
To which she replied, 'Yes, he only really works if you believe in him.' Hmm
Out of the mouths of babes....

anonacfr · 05/12/2011 22:46

Grin funnypeculiar

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LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 05/12/2011 22:48

:) Aren't they brilliant?

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Shelley33 · 05/12/2011 22:56

the little girl I nanny at the age of 3 announced recently that once Mary Poppins dies, then it's her daddy's turn Shock I made a mental note to contact Julie Andrews somehow and ask her not to pop her clogs anytime soon....

A previous charge also once asked me If I was a miracle just like baby jesus Smile

Bustle · 05/12/2011 22:59

In the supermarket yesterday, Dd2 wanted something and I replied that I'd not got enough money. She said " we'll have to buy it in the 30 seconds in between you getting paid and all the money going on bills then!" . She's 8.

stinkingbishop · 05/12/2011 23:00

DS was wee, can't remember how old, asked me his first rhetorical question: 'Why do fish swim in the sea?' Cue me scrambling for various answers including muscle warmth, catching prey etc...'Because the grass isn't wet enough.'

He has just sent off his UCAS to study Philosophy at various fine establishments of the land.

Here's hoping...

down2earthwithabump · 05/12/2011 23:26

These are brilliant. What a genius generation!
A while back DD (then 3) was trying to understand the concept of God being everywhere... not an easy concept to understand for anyone. So she kept asking "Did Jesus hear that".

Days later, after a lull in her vocal attempts to understand this, she was sat on the loo and made a particularly loud "plop" sound... to which she said "Did Jesus hear that?" to which I could only reply "yes, He probably did!" I wonder what conversations she would have with funnypeculiar's DD!!

grovel · 05/12/2011 23:31

My DS, at the age of 4, wanted any Christmas present from Marks Expensive.

He also had a nightmare and came and told us (when he was 6) that "Jesus bit me". Two days later he told us he had a heart attack in his leg and could not go to school.

down2earthwithabump · 05/12/2011 23:33

And from religion to ethics/politics...
This from last week:
DD: Why are the children not in school today Mummy?
Me: Because it is a strike day.
DD: Ooo is everyone wearing stripes today?
Me: No striKe not striPe.
DD: What is a strike?
Me: When lots of people think they should be paid more for their work they all stop working together until they get more money.
DD: Oh...
Me: Some people have too much money, some don't have enough. But the people with too much don't want to share. What do YOU think we should do about it?
DD: watch cbeebies!Smile

Not quite sure she is cutting the philosophical edge like some of the others on here!

down2earthwithabump · 05/12/2011 23:45

Marthasharbour (lovely name btw), I agree with Stealth, the missing winky episode; it's hilarious Grin. You have to keep a note of that for future speeches!

Loopy, MNHQ should put some of these (asking our permission obviously) in a book alongside some of the other just wonderful threads like the grandparent's house one from a few weeks back... it would sell and be such warm and lovely reading. Thanks for starting it.

CheerfulYank · 06/12/2011 00:05

Ds has come out with some real corkers...whenever I would ask him how he knew he would say "God told me before I was born. I was a man, then I died and lived with God, then I was a baby in your you-ter-iss." :o

LinusVanPelt · 06/12/2011 00:18

Goodynuff your DS has genuinely helped me in the grief process with that perfect, simple statement. Please thank him for me! :)

My dd is not-quite-two. She has a book about the nativity that her Nana gave her for Advent, and upon having baby Jesus pointed out and named for her she looked up at Nana with a delighted, cheeky glint in her eye and said "Baby Jesus is Rascal!"

:)

leftmymistletoeatthedoor · 06/12/2011 00:45

Ds asks a variation of the 'how did the first person to know something know they knew it?' Question every day in life...

Ds: how do builders know how to build things
Me: they go to college and they watch the other builders and they learn
Ds: how do the other builders know?
Me: well, they did the same when they were young
Ds: and how did the first builders know
Me: arrrgggghhhh
Ds (small pause) and how did they know how to make bricks mummy?

It is cute but it drives me round the twist because he asks it about everything all of the time.

stinkingbishop · 06/12/2011 08:22

My son's great grannies died in rapid succession. Both very stern, proper, immaculately groomed ladies.

On hearing the news of the second death DS said 'Oh good, she'll be able to show her where the toilets and hairbrushes are in heaven.'

Aw...

Goodynuff · 06/12/2011 14:00

LinusVanPelt I did thank him, and he was quite pleased to have helped. Smile I hope you find the strength you need

mumofthreekids · 06/12/2011 14:33

Yesterday my 4yo DD told me that "bad dreams never come true but good dreams sometimes do..."

Grin FiveHoursSleep

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LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 06/12/2011 17:43

I agree downto, would make a lovely book. Ask MNHQ perhaps?

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nightingale452 · 08/12/2011 16:10

When DD1 was around 4 she asked me 'when did God die?' I thought she was getting mixed up and told her all about Jesus and the crucifixion and she replied 'no I know about all that, I mean when did God die?' I was a bit flummoxed by this and told her that he hasn't exactly died and that's kind of the point, to which she countered 'well how did he get into heaven then?' I think that was the point at which I told her to ask the vicar.

prozacpopsie · 08/12/2011 17:57

DS (aged 2): Why did the weasel go pop?

Not philosophical but SO touching, this one...

DS (aged 5, few weeks ago, sitting on loo doing poo) made a heart shape with his hands and said: 'Deep, deep, deep, deep, deep in my heart is a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny forever kiss, just for you.'

Cue blubbing from mummy.