BABIES IN THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS...

...AND OTHER FUNNY CHILDHOOD EXPLANATIONS! You know those times when you are driving with your kids in the car and there is time to talk. Conversation with kids can be so random. My kids like to hear stories from my childhood since I had six siblings and we could get pretty crazy. One thing leads to another and pretty soon we are talking about funny things we thought or imagined to explain everyday questions. For example, Kaylee told us she used to think there were mice (dressed in little clothes) living in the traffic lights who scurried around connecting wires to make the lights change from red to green and then green to yellow and back to red again. That's when Jeff chimed in to say he had a similar explanation, except he thought it was babies holding different colored flashlights! We had a good laugh about that one. When people would talk about horse power in cars, I used to think they actually killed horses and took their power to run the car. Good stuff. Of course, later on when the real story of how traffic lights work, or how cars get their horse power is revealed, it makes more sense!

This all led to discussion of funny or complicated stories from all different cultures and societies around the world, and in history. You can see why the Greeks and Romans needed their Gods, and the Native Americans needed their Spirit Guides. I guess as Human Beings, we are born with the innate desire to explain the unknown.

So come on now... share your funny childhood myths or stories!