Feel Like Buying...

4 yr-old Jackie has been displaying signs of an inherited impulsive shopping disposition...

Jackie (squatting, admiring and touching a low-hanging cookery toy set): Mum....I feel like buying this....

Mum: No! What did I tell you, Jackie!

Jackie: No...I say I only feel like buying, feel only... I am not buying!

My Ambition

Jerrie: Jackie, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Jackie: Hmmmm...
Jerrie: Do you want to be a doctor, a singer, a teacher, a chef...
Jackie: I want to be a dog, a black dog.

Look at my hungry face!

4-yr old Jackie: Mummy, you see what happened to my face...look at my face. (Jackie's sulking)
Mum: Oh, what happened to your face, Jackie? (Puzzled, mum touched Jackie's face.)
Jackie: You just look at my face... (sulking even more...)
Mum: There's nothing on your face, Jackie. Are you alright?
Jackie: I am hungry. That's why I look like that... Can you buy something for me to eat?

How is Gender Relevant?

At the dining table...

Mum: Come on Jerrie, sit properly!
Jerrie: What....
Mum: Put your legs down, you are not behaving like a girl.
Jerrie: What?
Mum: I say you don't want to be mistaken as a boy, do you?
Jerrie: Why do people need to know whether I am a boy or girl?
Mum:......

Busy Kid

Dad: Jackie, you will have to practise your songs when you reach home.
Jackie: No, I can't. I have no time.
Dad: What?
Jackie: I'm very busy, I'll need to brush my teeth, wear my perjamas, drink my milk and sleep.

No Outing Please!

(It's Teachers' Day, a Public Holiday the following day.)

Jackie: Where are we going tomorrow, daddy?
Dad: No where, we are staying at home.
Jackie: Yeah!!!
Dad: Why yeah, Jackie?
Jackie: I don't know which pair of shoes to wear.

Friends

Dad: Jerrie, do you play with your ballet class mates? Are they your friends?
Jerrie: What?
Dad: Would you call them friends?
Jerrie: No.
Dad: No?
Jerrie: No, I don't call them friends. I call them by their names.

Dentist=Pain

Jerrie: Mum said you have a tooth decay. Is there pain?
Jackie: Yes.
Jerrie: Oh, you feel the pain?
Jackie: Yes....But not now, when I go to the dentist.

Bottle Caps and Smiles

7 year-old Jerrie has a query...

Jerrie: Why do adults have to smile when they open new bottle caps?

Mum: What do you mean, why do they need to smile?

Jerrie: Ah, you adults do this, eerrr.... (showing a face all squeezed up, with gritting teeth while trying to open the bottle cap.)

Children and Bad People

Mum teaching 4-year-old Jackie

Mum: Jackie, you cannot simply buy everything you see and want.

Jackie: Yes, mum, we cannot waste money.

Mum: That’s right! What happens if you spent all the money?

Jackie: You’ll become children.

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Mum: Jackie, don’t you anyhow run, stay close to me.

Jackie: why?

Mum: You know there are bad people around, what if they take you away!

Jackie: I’ll have to stay in the jail?

Lizards

Mum with 3-year-old Jackie

Jackie: Mum, I don’t like those lizards in the bathroom...

Mum: Oh, why?

Jackie: They are not nice!

Mum: What do you mean, why do you think they are not nice?

Jackie: They don’t have long hair.


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Jackie: Mum, lizards don’t use toilet paper after pooing, correct?

Mum: Yup...

Jackie: I know why lizards don't use toilet paper.

Mum: Oh, you do, tell me why.

Jackie: Because, they don’t have hands.