HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids)
A group of young kids were asked how to decide who to marry and here are the results which are pretty amusing.
1) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
- Alan, age 10
(2) No person really decides before they grow up who they’re going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you’re stuck with.
- Kristen, age 10
WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
(1) Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
- Camille, age 10
(2) No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
- Freddie, age 6 (very wise for his age)
HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
(1) You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids.
- Derrick, age 8
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
(1) Both don’t want any more kids.
- Lori, age 8
WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?
(1) Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
- Lynnette, age 8 (isn’t she a treasure)
(2) On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that Usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
- Martin, age 10
WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?
(1) I’d run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.
-Craig, age 9
WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
(1) When they’re rich.
- Pam, age 7
(2) The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that.
- Curt, age 7
(3) The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It’s the right thing to do.
- Howard, age 8
IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
(1) I don’t know which is better, but I’ll tell you one thing. I’m never going to have sex with my wife. I don’t want to be all grossed out.
- Theodore, age 8
(2) It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.
- Anita, age 9 (bless you child)
HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN’T GET MARRIED?
(1) There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn’t there?
- Kelvin, age 8
And the #1 Favorite is……..
HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?
(1) Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.
- Ricky, age 10
Dangles - January 23, 2012
Their grasp on grammar makes me doubt that this is real.
Derp - January 24, 2012
It’s a transcription of children’s comments, transcribed by adults. Of course the grammar is going to be corrected.
desi - January 24, 2012
The youngest is six though, and at six my niece had better grammar than most of the adults she grew up around, including her grandmother who was in her late 30s at the time.
Chet - January 24, 2012
Great to hear eight year olds discussing their future sex plans.
Rose - January 24, 2012
Why can’t I get off this page on Facebook.
Michelle - January 24, 2012
Not only the grammar but some of the answers make me doubt these were kids. Some of the answers are just stereotypical-what-you’d-want to hear responses.
jackson - January 25, 2012
Fake, wayyyyyyyyy too fake.
Jonathan - January 25, 2012
“Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
- Lynnette, age 8 (isn’t she a treasure) ”
Already well indoctrinated by our feminist culture I see.
Kim - January 25, 2012
They are just kids they are not stupid. I truly believe kids can make these comments. Some time they observe more than adults do.
Duane - January 25, 2012
you’re telling me that an 8 year old said this?
“I don’t know which is better, but I’ll tell you one thing. I’m never going to have sex with my wife. I don’t want to be all grossed out.”
FAKE FAKE FAKE. Some seem feasible, but theyre all a real stretch
Pat - January 25, 2012
Yes, Jonathan, just like the chauvinistic culture of:
It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.
- Anita, age 9 (bless you child)
stephen - January 26, 2012
this is totally fake. i’m an elementary school teacher. kids don’t talk like this
Bela - January 26, 2012
Those of you that think it’s fake probably don’t have kids, cause I have an 8, 6, and 3 yr old and I hear stuff like this all the time. And my 3 yr old has amazing grammar so I wouldn’t question this at all.
jennifer - January 26, 2012
not to there teachers, but they do the their nannys, ive taken care of a boy of 4 who didnt want to get married beacuase then he ‘can only have one girlfriend’
kel-girl - January 26, 2012
My son is 8, and I’m not sure he totally knows what sex. When I ask him he says it means love. I’m pretty sure an 8-year-old wouldn’t say that about having sex. Just my 2 cents. It was still pretty funny though.
Matt - January 26, 2012
So painfully and obviously fake. Get it together folks.
Bimal Mehra - January 26, 2012
Most amazing replies by d kids.. :=)
Morgan - January 26, 2012
I don’t know whether these responses are fake or not. But I wouldn’t doubt it, I’ve been around kids (babysitting & teaching them) for over 10 years and these responses are totally possible. It all depends on what kids they’ve interviewed. Some live with parents that are immature and feed too much of their personal lives to their kids – i.e. those that are single and have multiple partners in and out of their home (seen it!) or children of divorced home where the parents often fight or complain with their spouses of what they do wrong right in front of them. Some parents just have personal talks with their kids about these things, especially when they pick up new vocabulary and information from their classmates. Children are sponges, they absorb way more than you know and observe even the little things that you think they won’t understand! Not to mention, they know more than they’ll outright tell you.
jana - January 28, 2012
my 9 year old has impeccable grammar!! trust me, many kids out there can speak quite well! i think this is really funny, especially the one that doesnt want to have sex cause it would gross him out!!
motorbaby - January 28, 2012
Kids are wiser than you know.
Banana - January 30, 2012
Dude. I know loads of kids who are at least this intelligent; what does it say about the adults in our world if they don’t believe kids can have good grammar and speak well? Isn’t that sorta what education is all about? What, are they supposed to be stupid until middle school? High-school? College? When they get a job? Who are you to say kids can’t be intelligent. Go listen to Mozart. He started composing at age 6.
emily - January 30, 2012
What? So a child is too stupid to string together a grammatically correct sentence these days? No wonder children are getting stupider these days, what with the low expectations set by adults
motorbaby - January 30, 2012
Anyone who thinks kids are “stupid” fails to understand what kids are going through these days.
Anyway, language use it not the issue – as the author has already stated, these kids’ comments have been edited. Language is vernacular. It changes. Grammar is a prescriptive way of using language with rules. But rules can be broken and rewritten, which is what makes language vernacular.
Maybe the adults are the “stupid” ones. Maybe parents hope their kids would learn on their own or don’t have hope themselves, especially within the economy today. My parents certainly did not teach me much. I was a “stupid” kid, but learned on the street, traveling, from friends’ parents, and school.
Enough with the negativity!
Harley - February 1, 2012
Art Linkletter had a TV show called House Party. Toward the end of each show he would interview kids – typically 4 to 10 years old or so. From 1952 to 1970 he interviewed about 20,000 children. The segment was ‘Kids say the darndest things.’ I used to listen back when I was young.
You can watch a bit of this at http://youtu.be/fCHIM-bGiTI
Here is a sample exchange:
Art Linkletter: What do you think would make a perfect husband, Karen?
Karen (about 10yo): Well, a man who provides a lot of money, loves horses, and who lets you have 22 kids, and doesn’t put up a fight.
Art Linkletter: And what do you think you’ll be when you grow up?
Karen: A nun.
amanda - February 2, 2012
the people who said this is fake obviously have stupid kids. =)
Granny - February 13, 2012
If you think kids don’t sound like this then you just haven’t been around them very much. They are smarter than we give them credit for. Just watch prime time TV and then ask how these kids know as much as they do
Al - February 15, 2012
I remember making Monica Lewinsky jokes at this age. Kids are definitely capable of these types of comments.
Yasirah - February 17, 2012
It says they were asked. It doesn’t say they wrote down their answers.
Hazel - February 21, 2012
My god, this is fake, these are all lame jokes I’ve heard before, although not attributed to children.