We were trying to put our son - who has a non-verbal learning disorder - to sleep. He was resisting and his comment was quite surprising: “But it’s Elul!”

“What difference does that make? It’s time to go to bed!” We responded.

He said that his morah taught that in Elul we need to wake up, so how do we expect him to sleep?

We were discussing where to make Sheva Brochos for my sibling’s wedding and we just couldn’t figure out how to make a Mechitza in the location where we planned to do the Sheva Brochos. My eight-year-old niece with special needs, who happened to have been playing at our house at the time. surprised us all by saying, “Take the shower curtain rod and shower curtain and presto you have a Mechitza.”

So my brother told her that she could gain a lot of weight and stand there and she will be the Mechitza. Naturally, she didn’t respond.

CBA, Milton, NJ

After Y.M. got an immunization that hurt more than he expected, he looked the nurse straight in the eye and exclaimed “You’re fired!”

My son was watching me clean and asked me, “Mommy, can we go to Bubby’s house?”

“No,” I told him, “Bubby’s working.”

“Where does Bubby work?”

“Bubby works in the hospital.”

“Is Bubby learning to become a doctor?”

“No, Bubby works in the medical records department.” He thought about that for a little bit then asked me... “Mommy, are you learning to become a cleaning lady?”

By the time we get to the motzei matza part of our seder, Y.M. was starved. He had no patience to wait and started making an elaborate matza, marror, and charoses sandwich. We told him that we are only up to korach, so he replied with authority: “This is MY minhag!” and kept on eating.

“Banging in Banks”

My 3-year-old developmentally delayed son does not talk yet. He uses a lot of pointing and gesturing with very few words to make his needs known.

One morning as my husband was leaving the house, my son was ‘questioning’ him as usual as to where he was going.

My husband’s response was: “I am going to the bank.”

Later on in the morning, my little one asked me: “Where is Totty?”

I decided to let him answer his own question by asking him rhetorically,” Where is Totty?”

He purposefully strode over to the table and gave a ‘bang’! It dawned on me that he was saying ‘bank’.

So I asked him: “Totty went to the bank?” “Yeah,” he answered, delighted that I understood him!! —

TK