Yesterday, as we waited patiently (or not so patiently) at a kitchen showroom…
I asked my husband to stop the toddler from climbing into one of the display cupboards. He responded by telling me (tongue firmly in cheek) that Noey liked being in the cupboard and didn’t want to get out. As I was about to laugh and just as the very posh kitchen design lady walked up to us, Izzy stepped forward and said to her father in a VERY loud and exasperated voice…
“For goodness sake, just grow some balls and get him out!”
I can’t believe my kid said that… right there, right then.
Mind you, as far as embarrassing kid things go, I think I’ll struggle to top the moment baby Noah vomited on a shiny new black Volvo in the car park.
What have your kids done that make you think…
“I can’t believe they just did that!?!?”
Come on, share! After all, if you don’t laugh about it you cry right?
Lol, I love it!
I can’t believe Im going to share this.. but my eldest (about to turn 11) was about 6 years old and dropped the F-bomb (in context) at the dinner table… in front of my parents and my (Very judgemental) In Laws.
Im sure there’s a hundred other times my kids have done/said things that Ive cringed and thought ‘i cant believe they just did that’ …but that was one that springs to mind.
I love it when they come out with something they’ve overheard, often that you didn’t realise they had, and they’re word perfect and in context.
My then 6 year old was at my dad’s work having a special treat. My dad works at a zoo and we were looking at tiny baby lions in their den. He would not be quiet and when told off muttered under his breath “well, that’s just f*cked”.
Bloody snowboarding gang of 18 year olds on the plane who got repeatedly shooshed by all the parents on the plane- I blame them! ;)
Disturbingly, that sounds like a quote. The question is “of whom” does izzy quote. :-P
And is it wrong to admit I giggled. I would have thought the presence of balls were confirmed by the four kids?
Haha, I love it!
We’ve been pretty lucky so far (with Max only being 2 & 1/2), but he has started repeating everything we say at the moment so I have to be very mindful of what I say.
The other day I spilled milk onto the floor whilst I was making Max a drink. He looked at me and said ‘that was naughty Mumma, look at my face, I’m very cross with you’. He sounded so much like me that I think I might have said that to him one too many times…
That is freaking HILARIOUS!
If I was the kitchen lady I would have died laughing, but I get the impression she probably wouldn’t have seen the funny side ;-)
I think my most mortifying moment was when I was shopping with Miss 3 – and she announced in her (loudest) ‘outside voice’ “Mummy, let me climb through your bum!”
The little old ladies in the aisle shuffled away in a hurry as I stood there not sure whether to laugh or abandon my shopping and run.
oops! yep, my boy 6 has just started telling his friends stories at school who tell their parents who then re tell me. hmm. that is interesting. especially where a mum I barely know said ‘i hear your husband once had his mother vomit over his feet for several hours as he couldn’t be bothered moving – that sounded like quite a boat trip…’
oh yes – at least it wasn’t a story about me!!
Oh Kate that is hilarious !!!!! My 8 yr old, said a massive bad swear word at school. The same day that I had to go and see his teacher for parent/teacher interviews. So embarrasing. We dont even swear much? well we do a bit, but have never ever said the word he said. I cant even repeat in type !
Love it!! My daughter has done plenty of embarrassing things. But the worst was the first time she saw a newly arrived Sudanese family in our very Anglosaxon community. My darking 4yo told their kids they should have a bath and scrub really hard to get clean like her. I was mortified! Apparently when I told her to scrub the black off her feet in the bath from wearing no shoes outside she was actually listening!