Note from Valerie: I absolutely love getting those e-mails that tell of the cute things that kids say - and misunderstand - particularly around the church. The following was shared with me and I thought I would pass it on. For those not in the Fresno First Baptist Church fellowship let me give you a few background details. Joy is Joy Nolte, our choir director. The person who passed this story on to me is Ray Callahan, he leads the children’s music program on Sonday mornings. I got a good laugh out of it - I hope that you do too!
The funniest thing was passed on to me by Joy on Sunday morning, about how kids misinterpret some things said in passing. It goes something like this:
Joy came up to me, and asked what ‘dropping the rock’ meant. Not knowing what she was talking about, she mentioned that the kids said I’ve been using this comment about rocks, dropping rocks, putting down the rocks, kids waiting for rocks to drop, and I still had no clue, and somewhat worried that the kids thought I had been threatening them with rocks. Confused, I asked Joy to clarify, and she said that some of the girls were wanting to do the solo part, and thought that they were already picked, but now I’m letting others try out for the solos, and the girls said that I told everyone that I haven’t put down the rocks yet. Listening to what Joy was saying, I stood there and thought back to my practicing with the kids, then it came to me. I then explained to Joy that what I had said to the kids was that I wanted everyone to have a shot at the solo parts and that the decision on which of them to sing the solos parts WAS NOT SET IN STONE yet. We both had a laugh about how the kids took the phrase Set in Stone and changed it to putting down the rock. Goes to show how the young mind works and how unfamiliar some of our expressions are to the younger ones.
Posted by Valerie at September 26, 2004 03:36 PM