What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

We haven't any and you're too young.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

With a sort of mental squint.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!