Please share with me your embarrassing toddler in supermarkets moments

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Please, make me feel better!

Oh lord @Hydrogenbeatsoxygen I've been there! Just the other week my two year old did the most enormous fountain of vomit (including the free banana he had just eaten) all down himself, the pram and the floor in the clothing section of Tesco. I ended up crying as multiple people walked past and ignored us while I tried to contain it with a pack of baby wipes.

Just re-read.

Aisle, not isle!

Took DS to the supermarket last week and I look a lot younger than I actually am, I hate it! Anyway DS calls random men daddy except it weren’t a random man he was pointing and shouting at by the Asda tills... oh no it was a random teenage boy in school uniform. Even though I said “don’t be silly that’s not Daddy” everyone was looking at me, doesn’t help I look younger especially with makeup, that everyone probably thought DS was telling the truth I wanted the ground to swallow me.

He also had a corker of a paddy in soft play the other day.. threw his drink and it went everywhere and refused to eat his lunch.. he’s too young to be unsupervised still so I made him stay there till I’d finished, he then decided to eat.. however I embarrassed myself even more when I went to put him in the pram to leave and pulled the strap as he decided to lean over and try grab the pram strap himself I knocked him flying out of the pram.. luckily he laughed and didn’t cry but I just cringed the full time I was there because of the stares I got from flooring my child!

My DS was not long out of nappies and I was forever having to hoik up his trousers at the back. He had accordingly learnt the phrase 'builder's bum'. Walking down the freezer aisle in Tesco with him pottering along slightly behind me, and he bellows proudly, 'Mummy, LOOK - I've got builder's willy!'

Had to take loads of condoms out of the stroller once they beeped at the security. Turns out my DD took them from the cashier desk while I was paying and packing. Well... a strange choice of stuff to be sneaked

I've had to stop saying "we need milk" in the supermarket because DS3, sitting in the trolley,takes it upon himself to pull my top down and expose my bra to the entire store whilst frantically trying to latch himself on through my bra 🙈

We were in Boots with my toddler, maybe 1.5 year old. He was walking around and we were doing our shopping, when we realised he had grabbed a box of condoms off a bottom shelf. So my husband started chasing him around the shop, which made my son, of course, run around as well, condoms firmly in grip.

Not the supermarket. The bank. "Mummy. That lady has a special hole.' Pointing at random lady. "So does that lady and that one. " I was 7 months pregnant. We'd had a 'sanitised for a 3 year old' chat about child birth recently.....

Not me but a friend of mine took her 3 year old to Asda and was looking for the guacamole and her LO was shouting
FUCK A MOLE! at the top of her lungs! 😂😂

Mine didn't tantrum much but when she did - oh boy!

I vividly remember a mega tantrum at the checkout of Tescos where DD went and hid under the checkout station whilst screaming her head off. There was a pause in the screaming whilst one wellie came flying out from under the till and shot across the shop. This was closely followed by the other wellie.

I was so embarrassed. I actually had to crawl under the checkout area to get her back out.

I do also remember though how kind other shoppers were. Two different people went and retived the wellies (which had been flung in different directions) and placed them back next to me whilst I struggled to get DD out from under the till . There were looks of support not annoyance which nearly made me cry but did help me get through it. I don't miss the toddler days although the pre teen days can be pretty blooming challenging too!

Three come to mind but I’ll save the worst for last.

When she was just turned 2 we went shopping on Christmas Eve to collect our order, I grabbed some red cabbage (the pickled stuff) and DD announces she didn’t want it. I said that was fine it was for me and she screamed ‘NO!’ and threw it out of the trolley. Bright purple mess all over the floor and glass everywhere. I had to stand with it whilst DH went to find help.

The second one I wasn’t present for, DH took her shopping when she was teething and it was a hot day. She managed to get all the way to the tills before saying ‘Poo!’ And then pooing through her nappy, shorts and the seat of the trolley all on to the floor. I can just imagine his face now.

Finally we were toilet training our 2yo DD and I needed the loo myself, so we went into the baby change in Sainsbury’s which has a toilet cubical too.
She did her wee and was very proud of herself then I was caught a bit short and needed to do a poo.
I was lightning quick but she was quicker ‘Oh well done Mummy! Really good poo Mummy!’ She shouted very loudly. Not too bad as we were in there alone.
We washed our hands and left the room to find her dad.
When she gets to him says ‘I did a wee Daddy!’ DH enthusiastically congratulated her and then she continued... ‘Yes! And Mummy did a BIG BIG POO! Good girl Mummy!’ He doubled over in stitches over the trolley and I went bright red and she patted me on the bum.

Two incidents spring to mind. One in Gap with my son age 2 who took the hand off a dummy and sprinted for the exit. Another time he had a tantrum at a food checkout, I picked him up onto my hip and he punched me in full the face. The large queue behind me gasped loudly. I grabbed my bags and quickly left trying to stop tears of pain and humiliation.

chilledteacher the other week in Sby's I said something to DS about dinner.... at the word "dinner" he shouted HO and pulled my top right down.

We stopped bfing almost a year ago

When my son was about two he kept seeing an ad for the toy Beados on tv. We went to Home Bargains and he saw them and excitedly shouted out. Unfortunately for me his Bs at that point sounded like Ps. Yup, he yelled "LOOK MUM, PEADOS!"

Another time he was walking down an aisle with an oven tray. He dropped it (and the place was very quiet) and he looked at it and went "OH SH-T!" I swear I heard giggling from the next aisle.

Worst was actually in the very quiet bank! Where we’d been queuing for some time (teller was being ludicrously slow!) Dd about 3 and out of nappies at this point and did a very loud very obvious fart...except “oh no mummy that’s more than a trump” cue quick departure to mother care changing room next door for massive cleanup and my choosing to do the bank thing another day!

Funniest was dn in supermarket and bizarrely YMCA came on the instore music dn knows ALL the words and moves and “put on the show right here” as it were, even using a promotional display as a makeshift stage! That kid will be famous one day

We had an awful one recently... A man behind us at the checkout had longer hair.. (I have long hair) and DD aged not quite 2 pointed at him and said 'Lady hair! Funny! Mummy, man lady hair!... I was cringing behind the trolley.. thankfully he saw the funny side of it ! .. I was glad to get out of Lidl

Not in a supermarket but on a pretty full bus

Lady rings the bell proceeds to the doors of the bus
Doors open
Before she could even think about stepping off the bus
My two year old shouts
"GET OFF THE BUS!!"

This thread has made my evening (cold-filled teething baby who hasn't eaten all day and is making up with bf, plus she was trying to feed while I gave her Calpol meaning I have sticky tits).

She's a year on Tuesday so I have got off lightly so far, but a couple of months ago a woman said "What is your baby eating?". She'd grabbed a yellow pepper from the shelf and had munched her way through almost half of it without me noticing... That's how we discovered that she is pretty good with whole fruit and veg...

1. DD used to have a noo-noo - you know, one of those bits of cloth that she would rub between her fingers - which became known in our house as "noo-ing." One day we were in the supermarket queue and a middle-aged and very middle-class looking lady in front of us kept looking down and frowning at my DD. I thought what a snooty cow she was, then realised that DD had her hand up the lady's skirt and was noo-ing her underslip. Embarrrrassing!

1. Pushing DD round in the pram and VERY fat lady walks by - "Mummy, why has that lady got no knees?!" Gulp!

My eldest when she was about two pulled my top down managed to grab my bra and partially pop my boob out too.
She asked a man why he was in a pram, he was in a wheelchair, luckily he was lovely.
Another time whilst putting a trolly away she swung the long bit of chain for the first trolly and it wrapped around a person's crutch, thankfully didn't send them flying, was crouched on the floor untangling him apologizing like crazy.

I wasn't there at the time but apparently DS said to DP really loudly 'Daddy your penis is broken". We still don't know why he said it 😂

M'y two (aged 2&3) pushed over the cosmetic jewelry displays in a posh shopping center and proceeded to both tantrum.
I didn't have a trolley with me (otherwise I would have chucked them both in it) and I was out of my depth so I just sat down in the middle of it all while people around me stepped over us and tutted.

Oh, it was a proud moment.

Standing in an aisle with dd, who’s 3, when a very fat man walked past. The man’s bare stomach was hanging down from under his jumper. Not alone did Dd shout, «Mummy, look at that man’s tummy!», she actually reached out and patted it as he went by.

My 3 year old loudly shouted "quick mummy, come look at this" when in our local small store. I found him in the next aisle standing pointing at a very large bearded man. My son then said " either that's santa or he is just a fat man who eats too much" I could not apologise enough or get out of there fast enough