Pure and innocent child logic! I was three years old when one of my grandfathers died. He died of a heart attack in the living room. I thought, “How could he die in the LIVING room??” (I know Mr. Crane used this idea in a cartoon a few years ago, but surely many children have thought it before.).Also I saw older women with large fat deposits in their upper arms, and thought they had big muscles. And in our town many of us had immigrant grandparents who spoke “broken English.” We thought that as people got older, that’s how they talked..Old people (like me, now) are a mystery to children. In the absence of knowledge, children develop many sweet and humorous theories about us. Don’t be offended — hearken back to your own days as a child.
Pure and innocent child logic! I was three years old when one of my grandfathers died. He died of a heart attack in the living room. I thought, “How could he die in the LIVING room??” (I know Mr. Crane used this idea in a cartoon a few years ago, but surely many children have thought it before.).Also I saw older women with large fat deposits in their upper arms, and thought they had big muscles. And in our town many of us had immigrant grandparents who spoke “broken English.” We thought that as people got older, that’s how they talked..Old people (like me, now) are a mystery to children. In the absence of knowledge, children develop many sweet and humorous theories about us. Don’t be offended — hearken back to your own days as a child.