Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy,
flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry,
extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles,
they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
Jean de La Bruyère
An eighth grade teacher was leading a discussion on the
qualifications for being president of the United States .
After the teacher commented that a person must be a natural-
born citizen. One of the students raised her hand, "Does
that mean that if you were born by Caesarean section that
you can't be president?
A few years ago we were desperately trying to sell our house,
which was situated on a busy thoroughfare.
Our real estate agent decided to have open-house
inspection nearly every day to promote the sale.
We instructed the children not to talk to anyone about the house.
One evening a man took our seven-year-old daughter aside
and asked if our house had any secrets
he should know.
Her first reaction was to smile and ignore his question.
But he became more persistent and, finally,
she confessed there was one secret but she could not tell it to him.
"Now we're getting somewhere," he said.
"Tell me the secret. I promise I won't tell anyone."
She looked him straight in the eye before whispering,
"We have monsters in our sewer."
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time,
the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Edgar W. Howe
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