During the usual discussion of how school went I have recently started mentioning what writing assignments the children completed each day.
Me: "Will wrote middle sentences about a priest who worked with the lepers."
Maggie (interrupting): "I remember when we had leprechauns in preschool once. They knocked down all the chairs and tables."
Me: "There is a slight difference between lepers and leprechauns, dear."
Will: "That didn't REALLY happen, there are no such thing... are there?"
Maggie (very indignantly): "I'm thinking about it right now. So it IS true!"
Tim and I looked at each other and tears started coming out our eyes we were trying not to break out laughing.
A 4 year old's logic seems to be similar to talking heads on the TV, "I'm thinking about it, so it MUST be true."
Two Sundays ago, the Gospel was about Jesus curing the lepers. My 6 year old, later on, was talking about the leprechans helped by Jesus. Since our parish has a children's liturgy where the 3 to 6 year olds go off to hear the Word, Bill and I were really baffled about what was being taught...until my oldest son corrected her and said they were lepers, not leprechans. Happy that my 9 year old actually listened to the Gospel!
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