25. The Alternate Route
“I was pregnant and working as a preschool teacher. One of the little girls was very curious about my pregnancy so we were talking about it. Somehow we got on the subject of how the baby might come out. She looked me dead in the face and said, ‘You know, they’re going to have to cut it out of you.’ As you can imagine I was kind of surprised but managed to deflect and say, ‘Well, if they don’t cut it out of me, what are some other ways that the baby might come out?’ Again, she looked at me dead in the face and said, ‘I think that baby might just crawl right out of your mouth.’”
26. Probably True
“My 3-year-old daughter stood next to her new brother and looked at him for a while, then turned to me and said, “Daddy, it’s a monster … we should bury it.”