Childhood Exploration Gifts

'Are you the opposite sex, or am I?'

"What do you mean, it's not an educational toy? I'd have to learn to ride it!"

'Can I be a boy today'

Playing in a stream.

"I don't really believe in the tooth fairy anymore, but if it pays, I play!"

"Wow! You've got free-range children."

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

Uncle demonstrating chemical experiments to children

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"Go away, he's not done playing Cowboys and Indians yet."

'I don't know what 'peer pressure' is, but it makes a GREAT excuse!'

A boy acting suspiciously

Ricky discovers only cartoon cats can fly.

Boy makes snowman around a lamp post.

"Dammit, Pooh - don't let the heffalumps win!"

"So, what do you do for play?"

'He licked all my tongue depressors.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

Imagination

'Can Anna come out and ride?'

'I lost a fight with a mud puddle.'

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry trip.

Typical bored kid of the New Millennium

"I've always wanted to live on a lake so I can go boating and fishing. Since we don't live on a lake, I thought I'd make my own."

'People have been known to lose an eye when a wink goes seriously wrong.'

"Its's a beautiful day. Why don't you play outside?"

'How am I going to get all this back in the tube?'

Toilet Training

Mistaken identity.

Little Pink Girl and Her Pink Horse

"Coming soon...what I did over summer vacation...the podcast!"

"All this time I've been trying to get her to walk, and all it took was a phone."

Child development. How children change.

Sticking out tongue

"If you wear these caps backwards, they keep the sun out of your eyes."