September 28th, 2008
(Questions on love and marriage posed to kids aged 5 to 10)
Pure thoughts. That’s what grown-ups say that every child has. Now is it really? The Q & A below are stuff that has been circulating and re-circulating via email for ages. We assume that these were taken from the American television series of the same title hosted by Bill Cosby in the late ‘90s.
It’s fun to read how kids try to answer complicated concepts like love and marriage. It’s amusing how their innocence and candor sometimes hits the mark or totally misses it.
Pure thoughts? Maybe not. Tainted thoughts? Now were talking…
What is marriage?
Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don’t have to give her back to her parents.
~ Eric, age 6
When somebody’s been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, ‘I’ll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get divorced, but you got to do one particular thing for me. Then she says yes, but she’s wondering what the thing is and whether it’s naughty or not. She can’t wait to find out.
~ Anita, age 9
