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Children's Tact: Grandmother's Bear Story

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 20, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 21

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Children's Tact: Grandmother's Bear Story

—Children have more tact than they get credit for. When her grandmother had told the six-year-old a long yarn about a fabulous bear that used to go around the country eating up all the children who disobeyed their parents, the bright child looked into the wrinkled face and said, “Grandma, were there any bears of that kind around when you were a girl?” And when the old lady assured her that bears of that kind were a recent invention, she simply replied, “I thought there could n't have been any, or I should n't have had any grandmother.” On another occasion of equal importance, when asked whether she believed what she was told, she naively replied, “No; I think it is the biggest mistake I ever heard.”