Leigh Richmond & Walt Richmond's "Poppa Needs Shorts" (short story, humor, free)

4 year old Oley learns the intricacies of "shorts" of "electrics", in his own way...

See also.

1. Henry Kuttner's "Call Him Demon" (download): Another story about how the thought processes of children & adults differ.

Collected in.

1. Judith Merril (ed)'s "The 9th Annual of the Year's Best SF" (1964).

Fact sheet.

First published: Analog, January 1964.
Download full text from Project Gutenberg, Manybooks.
Download audio read by Patti Cunningham from LibriVox "Coffee Break Collection Vol 1".
Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.