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To ask you to tell me a story where your DC have humiliated you...

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HuskyBlueEyes · 25/02/2014 00:10

Its 12am, i'm not tired and curious as to what lovely things your DC have done/said which is resulted in severe cringing on your behalf...

4 yr DS announced to the till lady today that she was a "pretend lady because ladies don't have face hair..."

He asked me the other day why I didn't have facial hair like dad and I said women don't get it. This till lady did have a rather noticeable amount of upper lip hair and I packed the items with rather flushed cheeks after a quiet apology. She wasn't very amused, and luckily DS picked up on her facial expression and avoided anymore talking... The shame.

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TicTicBOOM · 25/02/2014 08:49

DS went through a stage of calling out "DADDY!!!" to every black man he saw. We live in a very white area, the only black man he knew at the time was DH... I got a lot of Grin from the accused but I was mortified!

He got a sticker from the lady in the greengrocer. Woman behind him acted impressed and asked if she could have one too. DS declared "Nope, stickers are for little boys and you are a old lady!" Blush

ClemencePoesy · 25/02/2014 08:35

My 12 year old told his stepmum he heard me fart in the room above him that morning, I was present at the time but found it really funny as I knew he was completely making it up. I'm sure she just thought I was lying in bed farting like some windy slattern.

Like steff I've had my toddler try to pull down my top and scream, 'these are my mummy' s boobies' whilst having a chat with someone who was a mere acquaintance. The joys of extended bf I guess.

They are normally extremely polite, well brought up boys...honest.

sadiekillmouski · 25/02/2014 03:31

My best friend's son, at about age three, was taken to Easter Mass. As such young children will do, he began to fidgit. His dear Grandmother whispered to him "Now Tommy, don't you want to be good for Jesus?" And Tommy replied, clear as a bell, "No! I hate Jesus!" Tommy is now twenty two and will never live that one down...

flyingspaghettimonster · 25/02/2014 03:31

Last weeks daughter (10) was asked by her guidance counselor what her career goal is. She thought about it and I assumed she was going to say 'biologist' or 'geneticist' as she is keen to be just like her father. No - apparently her new choice is 'cashier'. This lead to a discussion about how cashiers don't get to keep all the money in the tills and that it is a job, not a career (the guidance counselor told her all this). Fast forward to the weekend and we went to the video store - a local one run by some true movie lovers and their very loyal staff. Right at the till, in front of the owner and several employees, she asks "mommy, is working in the video store a career, or is it a dead end job like a cashier?" - that was a fun one to wriggle out of.

Unimaginativecow · 25/02/2014 03:25

MIL got my DS1 a rocking chair for his birthday and he asked if it had vibrators meaning like DC2's baby bouncer. Then he looked MIL in the eye and said "do you have a vibrator".

SoldAtAuction · 25/02/2014 02:56

DD, aged 3, saw a very fat man standing beside us, huffing and puffing, while we waited to cross the street.
She asked very loudly, if the "the man was having constractions?"She may not have got the word quite right, but he knew what she meant!Blush

Joysmum · 25/02/2014 02:02

When breast feeding in public, my DD daughter decided to unlatch and lean back to scream like she was being murdered which resulted in everyone turning to look at me with my breast fully on show Blush

She also went through a stage of calling random men 'dad' because she thought dad meant man Grin

RonaldMcDonald · 25/02/2014 01:55

Told my grandmother's minister that mummy didn't believe in God, she believes in wine....

steff13 · 25/02/2014 01:50

#1 son, at age 2, pulled down my shirt at the library and said "boobies."

At age 3, he went up to a man at the park that and told him he shouldn't smoke because smoking is "bad, and yucky, and it will make you sick."
At age 6, we took him to the ER because we thought he had appendicitis. They took his temperature rectally, which he had never experienced before. They sent us back out to the waiting room, and he suddenly shouted (REALLY loudly), "hey, what did that guy do to my butt?!"

#2 son, at age 2, told the cashier at Target she didn't have a penis because she was a girl, and girls don't have penises.

At age 3, he pointed at a woman we followed out of the ladies' room at Walmart and said, "mommy, that lady didn't wash her hands!" in front of all of the people waiting to check out.

Bubblegoose · 25/02/2014 01:37

DD (speaking loudly in local language): Mummy, that lady is really fat!
Me (in English): Don't say that, it's really rude.
DD (in local language): Mummy, why are you telling me in English not to say that lady there is really fat?

StarSwirl92 · 25/02/2014 00:53

My little brother shouted at a couple walking their dog at the beach 'Look its the ugliest dog in the world!' and 'There it is again!' when they walked by.