I really related to the absolutely fantastic things our little ones espouse. I used to be a newspaper columnist, too, and would often write about this topic.  My favorite thing my daughter, then 8, stated: " Ma....they ought to invent a perfume that smells like hamburgers because men like hamburgers."    PS  It would help if you'd add your email address at the end of the column so readers can easily contact you!  I had to dig and dig.