Whats the best quote you have heard from a parent in passing?

Exasperated parent one morning( 5 Primary aged kids) “Perhaps Mrs Redsquirrel would like to take you home and bring you back tomorrow.” As she pushed him through the door as he declared his love for me.

Hahaa this is brilliant

My dm’s favourite phrase and one I often say to my own dc’s is “I don’t care about what’s fair - I care about peace and quiet”!

Loving this thread.....

Friend to her son on a walk in the Lancashire Hills. Very calm.

"XXX please put the sheep poo down".

When my dear departed DM was quizzing my 6 / 7 year old son at very multi-cultural school who was thoroughly enamoured with the Five Pillars of Islam, she became generationally concerned at his lack of RE with regard to Christianity, and being occasionally prone to un PC sarcasm she said "And do you sing to Allah at assembly?"

His reply, totally innocently was "No, we sing to the piano".

It was the ultimate bass drop.

On the phone with a customer, a very posh man booking expensive flights. Trying to be very professional. He was talking to a child in the background. He didn’t know that I speak his home language...

In between a very business like professional call...

DC no. wait a minute

DC no go to the toilet and wait for daddy.

No, leave your pants on!

Not on the floor!

DC no. Don’t put your hands in it!

I did suggest I would happily call him back to complete the call later but he insisted on carrying on. His call with me never deviated from professional either. Included on the booking was a 2 year old DC!

"Stop behaving like a child". Unfortunately it was me to my 7 year old!

My Grandad to my younger brother and 3 boy cousins... "don't think, your not good at it"

Passed 2 Mums whilst dog walking.
They were discussing home schooling and one said "I must admit I opened the wine at 4:30 yesterday"

Carried on walking, passed a couple more who stopped to admire ddog and chat about homeschooling and lockdown and I mentioned what previous passersby had said-that Mum looked at me and said
"we opened the wine at lunchtime yesterday"

Really tickled me

My father always told us to "play quiet reading games" when we were too rowdy. We all love reading so it definitely worked!

“Please take that bogie into the garden” So DS did, walked around the garden, brought it back in... and then ate it.

I also stole from Georgette Heyer “ Your conversation is as edifying as always, but I believe we can dispense with it”

Me: 'DD! you are more important than a crisp!'

Woman crossing the road behind me behind me, 'snurkleflrurprah'

I totally nicked my friend's favourite saying to her DC: "You know I can't hear you when you use your whiny voice"

A dad telling his daughter to 'get down and stop playing on the cannon'. I bet there was a sentence he never thought he'd say.

'Will you please stop licking my mole!'

Overheard in the swimming pool changing rooms

Oh god, I totally misread the thread title and thought it was asking about things parents had said before passing. As in, parents’ final words...
The first few responses totally threw me before I went back to check the title

My dad always used to say "you've delighted us enough" which I think he stole from Jane Austen... Probably justified with 3 daughters though

"No, you can't drive the car home because you are four. Now please get in the back like I asked you to five minutes ago"

“If you Google an alpaca there will be trouble” - me to daughter who was deploying her best bedtime procrastination techniques.

To a small child who had got herself lost in M&S and was crying to her mum that she’d thought the mum had left without her
‘ I would NEVER EVER leave you, NEVER. Think of all those months you spent growing in my tummy. Would I go to all that trouble just to leave you in Marksies ?’ Followed by a big hug...

Sitting in the garden this last weekend in the sunshine.

Heard a male voice in a neighbouring garden wail “ohhh nooooo, please don’t go out and leave me alone with the children”.

Followed by the giggles of a small group of small children.

I did once utter the immortal line “Will whoever left an eyeball on the mantelpiece kindly remove it!”

@Bobbiepin now that would be a gifted child!

I’m crying right now 🤣🤣