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Docia Shares a Story: On Beginnings and Endings

by Docia Zavitkovsky
July/August 2006
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We were sitting around the dinner table, talking as we often do, about how young children put things into words that make us chuckle and at the same time amaze us with their insight.

June Patterson remembered how a teacher of a group of four year olds was going to have a baby and the children had a surprise party for her. In the midst of it, one of the children came up to her and whispered in her ear, “You better get some clothes for him �" they come out naked, you know.”

I remembered a one year old playing in the backyard in his playpen, sans clothes in order to get the full benefit of the sun. Two neighbor boys came by and stopped to watch for a few minutes. Then one of the boys turned to the other and said, “This one just arrived.”

This reminded Betsy Hiteshew of the almost five-year-old boy whose father was a minister. Henny Penny, the child care center’s favorite pet (a chicken) died. The children held a meeting and decided to bury Henny Penny and have a small service for her. Any child who wished could say a few words. One child said that Henny ...

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