GOOD QUESTION

✦ Six-year-old (finishes dinner): What’s for dessert?

Me: We don’t always have to have dessert. Six: Then why have dinner at all?

— @Xplodingunicorn ✦ My son and I were walking in the cemetery when we came upon an ornate mausoleum. New to reading and interested in words, my son pointed to the name carved at the top and asked, “What does that say?”

I told him the family name: “Eaton.”

Now horrified, he responded, “By what?” —Audrey Maldonado Canajoharie, New York ✦ (My seven-year-old staring at my face)

Me: What is it, sweetie?

Seven: Is my nose weird, too?

— @thisonesayz ✦ After we passed the same off-ramp for the third time, it was clear that I was lost. My little girl asked, “Daddy, do you know where you’re going?”

“No,” I said.

Her reply: “Then why are you still going there?” —Dave Arandarichards Fallbrook, California