"When my 2-year-old daughter and I moved into our first home, she once came over and gave me a hug, with her arms really tight around my neck.
I pulled away and said, 'OW — why would you do that?' She pointed across the room at nothing and said, 'That man's doing it to that man.'" -k1rsty
"I overheard a little girl — referring to the new day care employee — say, 'Her eyes are pretty.
I wanna wear them on my charm bracelet.'" -Lokis_thor-obing_ass
"My daughter, at 4, was looking out the window and asked "where are all those people walking to".
I turned to look and she was pointing to an empty cemetery." - Beagle, PhD (@beaglephd)
"Two days after my daughter turned two, we told her our fish died, knowing she wouldn't fully understand.
She nodded solemnly and said, 'Everybody goes on the big train — bye bye.'" -lalaland16
"Daughter, age 4, raised in 100% secular home presses ear to my pregnant abdomen carrying future baby brother whose gender is at this time yet unknown. Whatcha doing, I say. Daughter - my brother is telling me all about god, mama.
I can’t quite remember anymore. He’s reminding me." -TheeMermaidQueen (@Mermaids4Kamala)
"When my son was 5 years old, he told me he couldn't wait for me to die so he could have his own zombie.
I've slept with one eye open ever since." -Imgodson
"My kid's friend hit a floating bubble, and it split into two. She said it gave birth and that it was romantic.
Then she suddenly popped them both and said, 'Murder is more romantic.'" -fatlittleyorkies
"My friend's sister never spoke a word until she was about 5 years old, when one night at dinner she suddenly said, 'You're not my real family.
My real family died in a fire.'" -Josh Carter, Facebook
"One day my 2-year-old started talking about someone named 'Grandma.' My mom goes by 'Mem' and my mother-in-law goes by 'Nonna,' so I started asking her questions about who Grandma was. My daughter said that she 'looks like you and Mem,' so I thought she might have been seeing my grandmother who passed away...
"One day, I asked her if Grandma was here, and she said — in her little singsong voice — 'Not yet! You have to waaaaaaait...' No thanks, I'm good." -cranemaiden
"When my husband was deployed, my 2-year-old slept in my bed with me. Well, one night, he pointed next to me and whispered that there was a monster there.
I said, 'It's OK — whenever you feel scared, just say a little prayer.' So I started to say one, and then he put his hand on my mouth to stop me, and whispered, 'Shhhh — he doesn't like that.'" -Amy Elizabeth Aiman, Facebook
"My 2-year-old daughter was playing with her toy kitchen, and I saw that she'd put a plastic baby figure in one of the pans and was sautéing it.
When I told her we don't cook babies, she said, 'It's just to take the skin off.'"
-cerinamroth
"One day, the girl I babysat was playing with her dolls, and she ripped the head off of one and put it in a box. I looked inside the box, and there were a whole bunch of stray heads in there.
I asked her what she was doing this for and she replied, 'Practicing.'" -theofficialmistake
"We were at the dinner table when my nephew just stopped, suddenly got very serious, and made direct eye contact with me, saying, 'I'm going to find you. I'm going to find you.
I'm going to find you...'" -Jazmin Hernandez, Facebook
"I was alone with my 4-year-old daughter when she began staring out a dark window and said, 'She's here.'" -dcwinger12
"I was asleep on the couch when I suddenly had the feeling someone was watching me. I opened my eyes and there were my 3- and 4-year-olds, standing next to my face.
Then they smiled, and said, 'We were watching you.'" -Cori Dio Sawyer, Facebook