h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have you ever marvelled at the simplicity and purity of childrens thinking?

As a young boy I was "astounded" to discover the amazing co-incidence that all of those people I knew as my Grandparents were - actually !! - my parents parents !!

Do any others out there have any similar experiences to share?

I remember when I was walking though a park with my sister, she said that we will have to hurry up cos there was some big "teddy boys" comming,
I think I misunderstud cos I ran for all I was worth trying to get away from the big "teddy bears"

manda

That sounds quite scarey!!!

I suppose what I am on about is that young kids try to make sense of the world based on whatever knowledge they already have - sometimes this leads to very entertaining - yet fascinating - insights into how children view the world. Because we "know" how things "are" this can disturb our view of the world.

Sometimes children can be remarkably outspoken. I remember a youngster asking "Mum - why has that man got a funny head? ( I am quite bald) - much to her embarrasment - any my amusement....

Thats why I like the kids program "The rug rats"
they come out with so stupid thing, but I can understand whot they are thinking, cos we used to think the same when we were kids

manda

I still think the same way now sometimes..... Which is a bit worrying for me seeing as how I'm only a few years off being 30

I remember the first time I discovered that there were people in the world who didn't go to a Catholic Church every Sunday. I had naturally assumed that churches and rosaries and grace before meals were things that everybody did, but in about kindergarten I went to stay at the house of a friend of mine because my parents needed to go out of state. His dad wore a bishop's hat, but wasn't a bishop, and they didn't say grace before dinner. I was shocked and amazed to hear that some people went to synagogues and not churches and didn't know the Hail Mary.

It was quite an epiphany for me.

I remember when I was a small child the song "The Last Unicorn" made me cry. I would wonder how God could be so mean as to let them die just for being late to the ark.