The wisdom of the ages.

[nairiporter]

As an elementary school teacher, I have the awesome privilege to work with kids aged 6-10 for most of my time. To talk with them, discuss important and funny issues, teach them interesting and useful things, but also learn from them. Yes, kids can teach us to look at things from a different perspective, one that we are not used to, or have forgotten a long time ago. And sometimes they ask the most hilarious questions! But after the initial giggles, you realise there is actually much more sense in what they want to know than they can even begin to imagine. And no, "I don't know" is not an option!

Examples...

"What would you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?"

"Why do girls go to the night-clubs wearing evening dresses? If it's a night-club, shouldn't they be wearing night-gowns?"

"If "love is truly blind", then why is erotic lingerie so popular with adults?"

"If Americans throw rice at weddings, does it mean Asians throw hamburgers at their weddings?"

"If a rabbit's paw brings good luck, then what happened to the rabbit?"

"Why don't they make the whole plane from the same unbreakable material as the black box?"

"How did that "No tresspassing" sign get into the middle of that grass lawn?"

"If the traffic cops control how the drivers drive, who controls how the traffic cops drive?"

"Why is it called "tourist season" if we cannot shoot at tourists?"

"If clothes shrink in the washer, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"

"If nothing sticks to teflon, how was the teflon attached to the frying pan?"

"Why is there only one Commission on Monopolies?"

"If people came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys in the mountain?"

"If you were born neither a boy nor a girl, what would you be?"

"Why does God let people die, instead of letting them live and saving all that work with making new people?"

How would you have responded to these? And what other funny questions have you been asked by kids? How did you respond? :-)