Kids do say the darndest things, and the funniest.
My son thought about that for a minute then replied, "My teeth are placed into my mouth with special mortar.The reason why there has been a TV show about this is because it’s all true. My husband said, "It would blow your teeth right out of your head." I explained that it would be too windy on the highway with the window down. My son complained vociferously saying that he wanted it down. He rolled it up as we were getting on the highway. One last one, on the way home from grampa's house one Sunday, my husband had rolled my son's window down. "No, you're not going to be grinded." Three Each day, he asked if his friend was coming over,Īnd each day, I'd remind him that the boy was grounded and couldn't come over until next week. When he was about three and a half, his favorite neighbor playmate was grounded. I need some deodorant." Then, pointing to his underarm. On one visit to the bathroom, he noticed his dad's deodorant. One evening when he was about three, we were trying to put him to bed, he needed to go to the bathroom. Having two preschoolers at home has provided me with ample opportunities to hear kids saying the darnest things. Return from Kids Say the Darndest Things to Your Language Guide home She noticed that a boy and his dad were following the same path through … It may be some funny sayings that your child uses, or a childs imperfect understanding of the world, or an unexpected combination of words as your young one learns his native language.Ī visit to the "meet" market Just this morning Olivia, my eight-year-old, and I were at the grocery store. There is not denying it: funny things kids say make the grownups around them laugh.
This page is a place to publish funny kid stories. You probably even hear funny things kids say in grocery stores. Most people have children in their lives, either their own children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews or children of friends and neighbors.
The TV show Kids Say the Darndest Things is no longer on the air, but that doesnt mean that children today arent still saying funny things. Tammy Wynette even had a country song entitled Kids Say the Darndest Things in the early 70s. There were a number of spin offs of this show: in the UK, Michael Barrymore hosted Kids Say the Funniest Things in Australia, Andrew Daddo hosted Kidspeak and Singapore had two similar shows: Kids Talk Back was hosted by Andrew Lim and Gurmits Small Talk was hosted by Gurmit Singh. Kids say the darndest things was the most popular segment of his show and became an American institution. Millions of Americans tuned in and over the course of his show, he interviewed more than 20,000 children. The children invariably said the darndest things much to the amusement of the audience.Īrt Linkletter ended each of his shows by interviewing several children. They sat on kid-sized chairs on a raised platform so that the host could walk easily between then and ask them questions. On the show, Bill Cosby or Art Linkletter had three or four children on stage. The premise of the show is that kids say funny things, and you can capture funny footage by asking children simple questions. Folks from my parents generation will remember a regular segment by that title on Art Linkletters House Party. In the late 1990s, here in the US, a TV show aired called Kids Say the Darndest Things hosted by Bill Cosby.