What our children THINK we're saying

I teach the 9 year olds in Primary. We're studying Church History this year. A couple weeks ago our lesson was on Joseph Smith and the confusion over which church to join. This lead to Joseph praying and receiving his first vision. Before we got to the part of the lesson where Joseph prayed, I asked the children if we were Christian. Most of the children said "No". We then talked about the name of our church and that we definately were Christian. The next week one of the children's mothers met me in the foyer as I was coming into church. She was laughing. She told me of a conversation she had had with her son the previous week. She asked him what he had learned in church. He proudly told her that he had learned he was a CATHOLIC! His mother asked him who told him that and he proudly told her that his primary teacher told him. This prompted a long talk between mother and son. She was laughing the whole time she was telling me about this little incident. I was Mortified. The word Catholic had never even come up in class. This child got the word Christian and Catholic confused and mixed up. The mother found it funny. I probably would have to if it had happened to someone else. I guess the moral of this story is we never know what these little ones are processing in their minds. I had to share a smile for the day and "the jokes on me" story. Melody (Christian Not Catholic)

thanks for sharing this laugh - I did the same thing as a kid! Sherrie