Last month we published a skittish feature about how children perceive their grandparents. Here are some more examples:

1.   A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own   childhood was like. “We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a   swing made from a tyre; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We   rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the   woods.”   The   little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said,   “I sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”

2.   My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Grandma, do you   know how you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo and I   said, “No, how are we alike?” “You’re both old,” he   replied.

3.   A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather’s   word processor. She told him she was writing a   story.  
“What’s   it about?” he asked. “I   don’t know,” she replied. “I can’t read.”