Schoolyard Dreamer Gifts

'I didn't want to peak too soon.'

"Don't worry, dear. You'll grow."

"My political platform focuses on more ice cream and more frisbee chasing, with less chores and fewer baths."

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

'Remember, Edward, inside every 'F' student is a 'D' student trying to get out.'

"I like going to school...and I like coming home from school. It's all the stuff in the middle that gives me trouble."

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

'I'm sure that you are highly qualified. It's just that we're not hiring anyone at the third grade level.'

Tree house.

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

"Holy cow, Kenny, look at the size of that thing! It's huge, I tell ya'! And the teeth! The teeth!"

Ricky discovers only cartoon cats can fly.

"Do you think that will count as our 'Fifteen minutes of fame'?"

Girl to boy: 'If flowers could fly, they'd be butterflies.'

Children's Dreams on Christmas Eve

"Recess does things to a man."

"She said that girls mature faster than boys, so I pulled her hair."

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

'Don't let them know you're a prodigy. If they find out, they'll take away your teddy bear.'

'I reckon we have grounds for a libel action, don't you?.'

"I'll have the usual."

Young Doctor, Young Nurse, Young Undertaker

“Hands, Rachel. Clap your hands. Why on earth would I say, ‘If you’re happy and you know it, slap Sam’?”

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

'I can change! I swear!'

I miss recess!

'I don't think re-living your childhood means you can go apple scrumping in next doors garden.'

'Very good, Jeffrey! - You are so creative!'

'Now, Billy, why don't you tell the class why you want to be a pirate when you grow up.'

'I thought you wanted him to have all the things you never had.'

Little girl shows her dog her shiny shoes.

A Grade Two student explains why he is so eager to get back to school.

Cocoa. Make it a double. Sure, Myles. Coming up. Here ya go. Double today; everything okay? Oh yeah, sure. What's not okay about realizing 3rd grade means a whole bunch of homework and Sally Anne Peters wanting to talk about feelings? Tell me all this weirdness ends soon. Triple on the house.

'I can't take Barbie to Show and Tell...she doesn't have a thing to wear!'

'Homework done only $1.00' 'Homework eaten only $0.50'