Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:
Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the sticky tape is
2. Mostly to clean the house
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born
How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like the rest of us
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring
3. God made my mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts
What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
Why did your mum marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mum eats a lot
2. She got too old to do anything else with him
3. My grandma says that Mum didn’t have her thinking cap on
Who’s the boss at your house?
1. My mum doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.
2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess mum is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.
What’s the difference between mums and dads?
1. Mums work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them
3. Mums have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.
What does your mother do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.
What would it take to make your mum perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.
If you could change one thing about your mum, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. I’d make my mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.
