Kids Say the Darndest Things
You never know what your kids are going to say, but you can be sure that they are always listening and drawing conclusions, often with unexpected results:
An example of this was interchange between my wife and my daughter Becca:
"Mom, how do they make milk? Do they just squeeze it out into the buckets?"
My wife responded, "Yep, they just squeeze it out into the buckets."
Becca then asked, "And then they get the "stink" out before they put it into the jugs?"
My wife was perplexed and asked "What stink?"
Becca came back, "You know, the stink out of the milk."
It was then that my wife realized she was referring to the "stink" from the cow farms that we used to drive past often on our way out to our house. My daughter thought the "stink" she smelled passing the cow farms had to be removed from the milk somehow so that we would actually be able to drink it.
Not a bad conclusion for a 4-year old. Just makes you wonder how long that question had been percolating in her brain!
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