Joke042: Loving Children


The Most Caring Child Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once
talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of
the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner
was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an
elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon
seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old
gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor,
the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

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Barney

A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As
the doctor looked down her ears with an otoscope, he asked,
"Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?"
The little girl stayed silent.
Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked down her
throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster
down there?"
Again, the little girl was silent.
Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he
listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll
hear Barney in there?"
"oh, no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.
Barney's on my underpants."

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Discouraged?

As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch
a local Little League baseball game that was being played in
a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the
first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was.
"We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile.
"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very
discouraged."
"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his
face.
"Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat
yet,"

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Roles And How We Play Them
Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in my life, I stop
and think about little Jamie Scott.
Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother
told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she
feared  he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were
awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie
rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement.
"Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those words that
will remain a lesson to me, "I've been chosen to clap and
cheer."