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You may have fun in finding the following “articles”:

 The Frog and the Eyes            
 Computer Artist                       When the lap is taken            Cats stand up?  
 Concentrate                              Being adult                             Cow and Calf  
 But I don’t like that taste!      The telescope                          Who says „Eey-ore“? 
 The drilling machine                Don’t warm it up                    Explaining “to wither”

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The Frog and the Eyes

My friend from university times, Spiess, is with his grandchild Hanna, three and a half years, next to a water lily pond and there is really a frog on a leaf, blowing up his cheeks. Unique, of unique beauty, he thinks and says: “Hanna, look, there, the frog on the leaf, isn’t it nice?” Hanna looks and looks, but can’t find it. Spiess tries again, pointing at the frog with arm and fingers: “There, next to the many flowers, can you see it?” Hanna looks and looks…, and says after a moment: “Grandpa, I can’t see so far, I’m yet so small, and my eyes still need to grow!”

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Computer Artist
Joan, not yet aged 3, produces on our big PC this screen, while I am working with my laptop. I, totally surprised: “Yey, Jaon, such a screen I’ve never seen before! How did you get it?” He, totally cool: “All automatically!” and continues: “You have your computer and I have mine!”
In consequence: he knows hwo to get there and I still don’t….

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When the lap is taken
Erika’s cousin, as grandmother, had the little sister on her arm. Her elder brother, 2 years and a quarter, became very jealous and advised grandma, short and to the point: “Lay her aside!” 
Grandma explained that this was not possible.
So, emphasizing his desire, he replied: “Just throw her away!”
(With thanks to Erika Schmidt)

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                                         Cats stand up?
Mother is shopping in H&M, for three hours, looking for clothes, being accompanied by her son Joan (2,5 years) and little sister Amaya (6 Months). Joan is a cat and crawls along the floor. All want to get on to the next department, so mother urges Joan to speed up a bit: “Joan, just stand up and use your two legs.”
Joan, full of criticism: “But Mami, cats can’t stand up!”

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Concentrate?
Joan’s mother is learning in the work room. She hears Joan’s little steps come along the floor and immediately his father’s voice: “Joan, please don’t disturb Mami!” Joan quickly: “But I don’t disturb her!” Seconds afterwards the door opens and Joan, full of best feelings: “Mami, you concentrate?”

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Being adult
His mother answers Joan’s question, that they all will be in Germany next summer again, also because Mom and Dad want to marry.

Joan: “I also want to marry!”

Mother: “Well, you may celebrate our wedding with us, but you can’t marry yet, you would need to be adult, and this means that you wish to spend all your life jointly. But later on you can look for someone to marry, e.g. Leni, or Bryoney, or Loa.”

Joan: “Neyyyy! They are all not adult!”

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Cow and Calf
Joan and his mother play with a little wooden cow and her calf, whereby the first one suckles the latter one.
Joan: “I would like to say: Don’t smack so much, little calf!” (Little sister Amaya, five months, smacked sometimes during her first weeks, and was a bit blamed for that.)

A little bit later, he points at the cow: “She is full of milk!”
Mother: “Yes, she has a lot of milk for her little calf.”

Joan, with his measuring fingers on the cow’s head: “She is full of milk, up to the horns!”

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But I don’t like that taste!

We eat a lot of delicious fish, we believe.....  Our grandchildren see this somehow differently.

Miriam and her family were our guests and one day, at lunch, she again expressed her standard saying “But I don’t like that taste!”  Half the time of their visit was over and I said to her mother that this today took me the highest degree of self-control not to intervene and that I would like to talk with her daughter, once again, and whether she –as her mother- would agree. She agreed.

Before next day’s lunch I questioned her closely: “Miri”, I said, “can you imagine that there are millions of hungry children on this world, and that hundreds of thousands must collect their food on the big cities’ garbage mountains, just to get at least a bit to eat?” She gets pensive.

I insist: “Look, the food is different here from the one in Germany, but your grandmother offers us only excellent stuff. Therefore, I wouldn’t like to hear your saying “But I don’t like that taste!” any more.”

She, ever so spontaneously: “Oh well, then I think it silently”.
… and she never said it again …

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Who says „Eey-ore“?

Laila, three years, ha an amazing logic! We have supper and I ask everyone to stay a moment silent because I want to demonstrate something with her. OK, everyone is listening.

I: Laila, which animal says woof-woof?
She smiles: a dog!

I: and which one says oink, oink?
She: a wild boar! (She had just learned this one)… I imitate a higher squeaking piglet and ask her: so?
She: a little wild boar!

Everybody: great, Laila, great!

Next example.
I: and which one says Eey-ore, Eey-ore?
She gets very thoughtful; one can almost see her thoughts flitting around.
Her mother, a little bit pushing: well, Laila, who says Eey-ore?

She, with an unimaginable smile on her face: the Grandfather!

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Kira, four years, has unrolled all the paper
in the bathroom.
Her father: „But what is that!!??“
Kira: “I needed a telescope!”

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His mother tries to explain the term „to wither“ by saying: that’s when the roses’ flowers hang down. He, with his 2,5 years being proud of his knowledge: and their tail, too!
 

Joan lets his drilling machine slip down and steps, yet a bit cautious, on it. His mother takes it away and puts it up on the cupboard.
Joan, full of surprise: “And how could I get up there, now?”

“Don’t warm it up” he said, sitting on the electric stove...