Old bears still run and some still climb trees. Old zebras still run like the wind. Old whales still swim thousands of miles. We humans must be an inferior species. We can't do what our grandkids can do.

Kids are amazing. I think that Art Linkletter said, "Kids do amazing things."

Well, I checked on that at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137313/. Art Linkletter never said that. He and Bill Cosby co-hosted a show called Kids Say the Darndest Things.

I was absolutely wrong. But I must be the inventor of "Kids do amazing things."

I did find that cowboys can do amazing things at http://www.bookreviewclub.com/childrens/stuart_cowboys.shtml but we are not talking about cowboys.

With those diversions, let me get to the point. The point is this: Kids can do things that we old folks can't do.

It's not really fare is it? When you get older you should be able to do more things because of your years of practice.

Here are some examples of things my grandkids and other kids can do and the things we old folks do instead:

Kids: Run, skip, jump, do cartwheels, stand on their heads.

Old: Walk with a cane, watch cloud formations.

Kids: Learn to speak Italian, French, Mogollon, and Chinese before they are two years old.

Old: Eat at Italian, French, Mogollon, and Chinese restaurants. (It's a fact. It's almost impossible to become fluent in a foreign language when you are over 25 years old. Stop picking on those Mexican immigrants.)

Kids: Learn to play Mozart and other serious music on the piano, violin, flute, guitar, and banjo before they are six to ten years old.

Old: Play Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater on the piano with two fingers.

Kids: Do back flips on the trampoline in the back yard.

Old: Flip falling hairs off clothes.

Kids: Laugh at silly little jokes.

Old: Are silly little jokes.

Kids: Quickly learn difficult subjects. By high school they are ready for calculus and physics.

Old: Ribs and joints are calcified and they take a physic.

Kids: Have a great interest in sex.

Old: Can't remember anything about sex.

Well, that about covers it.

Oh! There was one other thing. Maybe it will come back to me later.

John T Jones, Ph.D.

Jones was a vice president of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary having the major responsibility for research and development and certain engineering functions. After he retired, he became editor of an international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of IWS, sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He is a direct mail and mail order marketer and operates a dozen websites.

He has written three technical books, four novels (Bull, Revenge on the Mogollon Rim, Bone China, and In No Way Guilty), and many published papers on business, marketing, engineering and other topics. Details on many of these topics can be found at his personal web site.

Jones is a hack poet and amateur landscape painter. He lives in Idaho with his wife of 52 years. He has five children, three in medicine, a lawyer, and a portrait artist. The Jones’ have thirty-two talented grandchildren (many with special musical talent and skills), and one great grand child.

Jones is a prolific writer which started when he was an engineering professor at Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!). He doesn’t know how to stop.