(Cute FW I got a while ago...)

Slow down for three 분 to read this. It is so worth it. Touching words from the mouth of babes.. A group of professional people posed this 질문 to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does 사랑 mean?'
The 답변 they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what 당신 think:


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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8


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'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
당신 just know that your name is 안전한, 안전 in their mouth.'

Billy - age 4


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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5


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'Love is when 당신 go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give 당신 any of theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6


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'Love is what makes 당신 smile when you're tired.'

Terri - age 4


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'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'

Danny - age 7


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'Love is when 당신 키스 all the time. Then when 당신 get tired of kissing, 당신 still want to be together and 당신 talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'

Emily - age 8


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'Love is what's in the room with 당신 at 크리스마스 if 당신 stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)


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'If 당신 want to learn to 사랑 better, 당신 should start with a friend who 당신 hate,'

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million 더 많이 Nikka's on this planet)


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'Love is when 당신 tell a guy 당신 like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'

Noelle - age 7


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'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still 프렌즈 even after they know each other so well.'

Tommy - age 6


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'During my 피아노 recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'

Cindy - age 8


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'My mommy loves me 더 많이 than anybody
당신 don't see anyone else 키싱 me to sleep at night..'

Clare - age 6


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'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'

Elaine-age 5


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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'

Chris - age 7


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'Love is when your 강아지 licks your face even after 당신 left him alone all day.'

Mary Ann - age 4


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'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones..'

Lauren - age 4


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'When 당신 사랑 somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7


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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6


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'You really shouldn't say 'I 사랑 you' unless 당신 mean it. But if 당신 mean it, 당신 should say it a lot. People forget.'

Jessica - age 8


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And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four 년 old child whose 다음 door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently 로스트 his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'