My 5 year old daughter, Latika, wanted to know how I knew that my sister was going to have a baby? So I pointed out her big tummy, saying, "the baby grows in the stomach, and when it is big enough, it comes out." That evening, we encountered a fat man in the lift, when we went to visit my mother. My little one gaped at his stomach for a few minutes, and then, much to his embarrassment, and mine said, "look mummy, this man is going to have a baby.

- Gopi Wadhwa

One day, as I was feeding my two month old daughter, my servant walked into the room without knocking on the door. Needless to say, we did not take the matter lightly, and he was fired. When we were hiring a new servant, Nitin, my 6 year old, piped up, "Mummy, tell him not to walk into your room when you are feeding Anjali."

-Nita Vaswani

Last month, as we were returning to Mumbai by the Chennai Express, my family got friendly with a couple of school teachers from the next compartment. They were enchanted by my two daughters Srishti and Omika, especially Omika, the younger one. They had brought along some fruits with them, and offered some to Omika, saying, "Which fruit would you like to have? We have bananas, oranges, grapes, chikoos and apples." Much to their surprise, Omika answered "strawberries." A little later, Omika returned to us with a slice of cheese. My husband told her that it was not correct to take so many things from these aunties. Srishti, who loves cheese, was tempted to have some, so she quietly slid into the next compartment and told the teachers, "My younger sister wants one more slice."

- Sunita Chawla