Dear Editor,
Rabbi Zobin mentions a few `howlers' which children produce
as they learn language and expressions [Pesach issue]. These
amusing anecdotes surely occur in every home at some time,
and it would be interesting to hear of other readers'
experiences.
My own favorites are of the small boy who was told to draw a
picture on parshas Bereishis at school. There was a
man and a woman, flowers and trees, and an obvious car in the
foreground.
"Why the car?"
"That's for Hashem to drive them out of Gan Eden."
Then there was one which took quite a few minutes to figure
out. "Daddy is sitting on the learn." To a small child who is
told not to disturb when Daddy is learning, there is no
difference than when Daddy is `benching.'
Finally, a five-year-old boy just learning to read English,
was helping himself generously to the wine. When his father
reprimanded him, he explained in justification, "But Daddy,
it says: Serve child (chilled)."
From L.K.
