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In this silly story Gabe tries to keep himself out of trouble by making up the most ridiculous excuse. His friends think it's hilarious, but Gabe quickly regrets his decision.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Oliver gets to bring his friend Rory with him to watch the Olympics in Paris. Oliver loves watching the Olympics, but Rory has much different plans while visiting Paris.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Nathaniel is determined to get the last piece of cake. That wouldn't seem too hard if he didn't have 14 brothers and 11 sisters. Luckily Nathaniel's friend, Jake, has a plan.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

*Sorry Daisy - Happy Birthday!!!

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In this silly story Andrew stumbles upon the world's biggest mess while searching for his missing book. It could take twenty years to find his book in the mess, but luckily his sister's friend Abby has the perfect plan.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story a future astronaut learns of an upcoming eclipse. Even with special eclipse glasses, the boy fears his uncle won't let him watch. Good thing his friend has the perfect plan to avoid missing this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story a squirrel and a porcupine decide they want to become holiday heroes. With so many different holidays how does Squirrel Day not already exist?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story find out what it might have been like to work in a castle during the Middle Ages. What job would you have liked to do?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story find out what it would be like to show up to school and be the only student in class. How would you feel if it was just you and your teacher?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Nico makes some unkind comments about birds which will have him paying the ultimate price unless he's willing to apologize. So how exactly do birds punish those who say mean things? You may not want to know...

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story three friends register for after-school clubs. Sadly, not all clubs are created equal. And not all clubs can be the very popular Junior Detectives Club. But the Strong Kids Club could be fun too, right? What kid doesn't want to spend an hour lifting heavy iron bars over their head?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, a new student is cautioned to watch out for the school principal, known as The Princi-BULL. But how scary can one principal possibly be? It's not as though they have dungeons under the school. Or do they?

Warning: This goofy story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

Life is all peachy until you get stung by a bee for the very first time. In this silly story, Ava will do anything to avoid getting stung, even if that means moving to Antarctica.

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Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Please listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Jake and Greta convince their parents to go on a family vacation. Tropical paradise sure seems nice, however there does seem to be something a little strange about the hotel. Find out what it's like to stay at ... the Monkey Hotel.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In today's silly story, a couple of friends find out happens when you acquire more toys than you ever dreamed possible.

Warning: This goofy story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this week's silly story, Mila and Dylan are determined to trade places. So how exactly does the shortest kid in class switch with the tallest kid in class? Surely the answer can be found in a movie.

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Warning: This story may result in listeners experiencing smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, CJ and Clayton's parents decide that "it's time for a little change." Sadly that change means having to eat more vegetables. Luckily for CJ and Clayton, their good friend Alison has the perfect plan to make this problem go away.

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Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

New Year's Eve is around the corner. Skylar and Axel are determined to stay awake until midnight. With just the right amount of nachos and loud music it should be a walk in the park, right?

Note: The audio quality of this episode turned out a bit wonky. I hope your ears don't suffer too much.

Warning: This goofy story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In today's silly story for kids, Kaia and Hunter have a strange encounter with a gingerbread cookie. Since when did cookies learn how to talk?

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Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, find out what happens when grownups laugh at some of the ridiculous things little kids say.

Special shout out this week to Felicity and Sebby.

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Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, Sophia is forced to decide if she likes unicorns or mermaids better. As she learns more and more about the two different mythical creatures she discovers plenty of cool facts as well as some rather strange ones. If only deciding was as easy choosing the world's greatest cheeseburger.

Warning: This goofy story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story a talented and busy engineer meets his niece and nephew for the first time. He wants to get involved and play with them, but can't help himself from looking for ways to improve their games. Uncle Ned is about to learn the hard way that some games are best left as is.

Warning: This goofy story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, two brothers decide to play the Say-Yes-to-Everything game. They just have to make sure they don't get caught by the principal who has decided to ban this game for all students.

Warning: This silly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this week's goofy story, the Spooky Creature Alliance is on a mission to save Halloween from becoming too... cute.

Warning: This silly story may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Stella's older cousin warns her about hair that can start growing ANYWHERE. If Stella isn't careful she might end up completely covered in hair. Not exactly the look she's going for.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

Gabriel and and Nate have one thing in common. They both dread Picture Day. For some unknown reason their photos never turn out how they would like. It's bad enough having their families see their photos, but now their school is creating a yearbook to share with EVERYONE!

Gabriel and Nate need to think of a plan and fast.

Warning: This silly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

Reagan and Lincoln, for the first time ever, have been asked by their parents to share a birthday party. All they have to do is agree on the theme, entertainment, and cake. Easy, right? WRONG! How often do brothers and sisters ever agree on anything? Fortunately that's where the party planner comes in. Though Reagan and Lincoln discover their party planner likes to do things a little bit differently.

Warning: This silly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

Alex is the kid in town that wins every trophy. Winning trophies at the upcoming Town Games should be no different, until Alex learns that his town and the next town over have decided to combine their Town Games. Now Alex will be up against Kathryn, the girl who wins every trophy in her town. Will their best friends, Nate and Axel, have any influence over who wins? Find out in this action packed silly story.

Warning: This goofy story may result in listeners experiencing smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

What happens when you make friends with the coolest person, but no one else believes they exist? [Invisible friend problems] Fortunately there's a potion for that.

Find out what it might be like to have an invisible friend in this week's silly story.

Warning: This goofy story may result in listeners experiencing smiles, snorts, and possibly some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

One day Max makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The next thing he knows he's being cast on the hit television show, Mega Chef Junior. The winner of this cooking competition is to be awarded their very own restaurant, which sounds really cool to Max. Unfortunately he'll have to compete against Ajrun, Grace, and Will. These three kids have been cooking for years and have shared their culinary skills with the rich and famous. Will a PB&J chef have what it takes to go head-to-head with some of the finest young chefs in the world? Find out in, Mega Chef Junior.

Warning: This stilly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this superhero themed story, Joaquín meets a girl named Lucila at the Superhero Academy. Lucila is tasked with helping Joaquín discover his hidden superpower. Unfortunately for Joaquín, some of Lucila's experiments are a little unusual. Will Joaquín ever discover his power?

Warning: This story may result in smiles, snorts, and possible LOLs. Please listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story for kids, Margaret is off to her grandmother's house for the summer. Five weeks of getting mistaken for a baby and with absolutely no chance of video games. Desperate to keep working on her gaming channel, Margaret wonders if she can somehow turn Grandma into a gamer!

Warning: This story may result in smiles, snorts, and possible LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, Nick's summer break is nearly ruined when his parents decide to give him chores to do. Fortunately, taking out the garbage doesn't seem like the worst job in the world. That is until he meets a raccoon who seems to have it in for Nick. His new chore starts chewing up more TV time than Nick would like. Listen to find out how Nick battles back against Ricky Raccoon.

Warning: This funny story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even LOLs. Listen at you're own discretion.

In this silly story for kids, Julian dreams of someday driving his own ice cream truck. Unfortunately he has to wait until he's sixteen. Things begin looking up when he learns that there is such a thing as an ice cream bike. Perhaps he'll be able to sell ice cream sooner than expected.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may induce smiles, snorts, and possible LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this camp-themed story, we meet Joseph, David, and Patrick who are off to summer camp together. Joseph is excited for the water activities; David is excited for the land adventures; and Patrick... well Patrick is wishing he could just spend summer vacation on his comfy couch instead.

This particular camp ends up being far different than what anyone could have expected.

Happy Summer Break, everyone! (and perhaps Winter Break for our listeners in New Zealand and Australia?)

Warning: This silly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possible LOLs. Please listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Ethan and Brooklyn decide to build a pillow fort like no other. Their motto is 'go big or go home!' Elaborate pillow forts sure sound like fun ...until your parents see what you've done.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

James and Sophie just want to be able to have fun. Why do they always have to ask their parents permission to do anything? Why do their parents love saying 'no'? These two kids find out what happens when you ask questions one too many times.

Warning: This silly story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possible LOLs. Listen at your own discretion!

Twin brothers, Ryan and Logan, discover that their father, King Albert, has to choose one of them to eventually take over as king. Cousin Ned organizes a medieval tournament to show King Albert which prince is most deserving to inherit the throne. Everyone, including King Albert, is shocked by the results. Which prince will be chosen?

Warning: This silly story for kids may cause listeners to smile, snort, and possibly even laugh out loud. Listen at your own discretion. And of course, don't forget to subscribe for more!

In this silly story, Kian gets invited to audition for the leading part in a movie. He's been preparing his whole life for this moment. Unfortunately he has not prepared for having to bring his sister, Colleen, along too. Will his sister ruin his shot at becoming a movie star?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, strange snorting sounds, and possibly some laughing out loud. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story we meet Ethan, a kid who wants nothing more than a relaxing weekend at home with no plans. His dad has other ideas and surprises Ethan with a father-son camping trip. Maybe not the worst way to spend a weekend... unless your dad is the snoring world champion.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in listeners smiling, snorting, or possibly laughing out loud. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story we meet Aliyah. A girl could loves contests and competitions, but always lets her nerves get in the way. Things begin to look up when her grandmother gives her a special family heirloom. At first glance this heirloom looks anything but special, but Aliyah's grandmother convinces her that the heirloom might be just what she needs to become a great competitor.

Warning: This funny story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even laughs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, we meet Rose, a girl who has an extremely busy schedule. She's fully booked, all the time, doing clubs, lessons, and other activities. Rose is so used to having her day completely mapped out that runs into a problem when one of her lessons gets cancelled. She's not going to have to use her imagination or anything weird like that, is she?

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, or even possible laughter (maybe even out loud!). Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, Josephine experiences her first Pyjama Day at school which makes her wish she could wear her pyjamas everyday. With some clever thinking she might just get her way, however sometimes what we think we want is not actually what we want at all.

Disclaimer: This funny story for kids may lead to smiles, snorts, and even possible laughter. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story we meet Tai, whose family is EXTREME! They love the thrills, chills, and excitement of extreme activities. Tai on the other hand is only extreme when it comes to safety. When Tai and his friends encounter quicksand, it may be up to him to find his inner 'EXTREME!'

Warning: This goofy story may result in listeners experiencing smiles, snorts, and possible bursts of laughter. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story Carter can't wait until his birthday party. He's almost certain he'll be getting a new pet dog (parents don't always keep the best secrets), but an unusual class field trip threatens to mess with Carter's birthday plans.

In this silly story, Julia meets her new neighbours who turn out to be space aliens. At first her new neighbours seem great, but then Julia begins to suspect that her new neighbours might be up to no good. Julia decides to break out her best detective skills to see if she can get to the bottom it, but what she discovers is nothing like she had expected.

WARNING: This goofy story may result in listeners experiencing smiles, snorts, and possible burst of laughter. Listen at your own discretion.

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In this silly story Jayan keeps getting mistaken for looking like someone else. His sister Rayna decides to give him a makeover to stop this from happening, but Rayna takes things a little too far.

Warning: This goofy story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and possibly even some LOLs. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story we meet Brayden, aka 'the principal's kid,' who wishes the other kids didn't know he was the principal's kid. Everyone expects him to be an expert rule follower. They also worry he'll tell his dad if they do anything wrong. Brayden hopes things will be different at his new school, but things take an unexpected turn when he meets up with the biggest rule breaker in school history.

Warning: This funny story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, and listeners possibly laughing out loud. Listen at your own discretion.

In this silly story, Miles is asked to babysit his little brother who can be a bit of a handful. Miles allows his little brother to watch videos on their dad's computer as long as he doesn't press the mysterious red button. Little brothers are great at doing as they're told, right? Right?!?

Warning: This funny story for kids may result in smiles, snorts, or listeners possibly laughing out loud. Listen at your own discretion.

In this St. Patrick's Day themed story for kids, Carly dreams of catching a leprechaun. She has already built countless leprechaun traps trying to do so. Maybe this will be the year she pulls it off. Though Carly's about to learn that catching a leprechaun may not be as great as it seems.

Warning: This funny story for kids may result in smiles, giggles, and listeners possibly laughing out loud. It also contains a poorly done Irish accent, which may be hard on some ears. Listen at your own discretion.

Gabriel refuses to go down without a fight. Though he also can't help but wonder if all of this trouble is even worth it. Maybe he should never have listened to what grownups always talk about at the dinner table.