I have worked for at least eight years with children. Whether as a teacher’s assistant, in a day care, or as a coach. My experience in the job field has been predominantly with kids.

With that being said there are moments and comments that are made that either make you turn your head for a double take or make you question everyone’s thought process. Here are some of the best comments and questions made by kids so far that I have had the fortunate contact with.

1.While picking a country for a project a boy looked at the card he received very confused.

“Why is it telling me that I have China? I thought I needed to pick a country?”

“Yes honey, you have China”

Rolls eyes

“China is a continent. Do you honestly think I’m really that stupid?”

2.While passing out worksheets in class, I overhear a group of girls talking

“How do they make colored paper?”

“They don’t have colored trees, so how do they do it?”

“Do you think they just inject the tree with dye, so when they cut it down it is already that color?”

“Oh my gosh yes! That sounds right”

3.While working on a map activity a student raised his hand to ask me a question.

“What does the D.C mean on the map?”

“It means the District of Columbia”

“Oh, so if it is in South America, why is it on the U.S map?”

“ummm no honey it’s Washington D.C”

“oooooh, the one by the Pacific Ocean”

“No that is Washington State, the capital of our country is Washington D.C”

“I know, Washington is in the west”

“Wrong Washington”
“There’s two?!”

“Yes, Washington State and Washington D.C”

“No, that’s not right”

4.While at basketball practice one day, we were talking about what a few of the girls learned during their health and biology classes.

“Coach, men and women can get breast cancer right?”

“yes”

“Then how is it that men can only get prostate cancer?”

“Well, men are the only gender that have a prostate”

She then proceeded to argue with me that I was wrong, and that both men and women have prostates. We had a very interesting anatomy lesson that day.

5.One of the teachers was putting duct tape flags on their pencils to know they belonged to her classroom. In the process, two girls were having a discussion on what the tape was made out of.

“Well why do they call it duct tape then?”

“The saliva from ducks is what makes it sticky”

“You’re stupid, ducks can't spit”

“No, you’re stupid, ducks have tongues so they have to have spit”

“Actually guys, it is a special type of glue”

“Yeah, made out of duck saliva”

I still believe those two girls believe that theory to this day.

I love working with kids. The older you get, they will always keep you feeling young. They also, however, say the craziest things.