Please share with me your embarrassing toddler in supermarkets moments

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Please, make me feel better!

Just today going around an indoor market. Grabbing fruit and veg randomly and continuously running away. He's not even a toddler any more. He's 4.

My dd (now aged 22 but was about 2 at the time) was fine in Tesco one day with me,my mother and her brother

All was well-ds was sat in the trolley and she was being a big girl walking next to the trolley as I pushed it along

Then she started to have a paddy cos I refused to let her buy the ’pretty box’ (a box of 12 condoms)

So I asked my mother to keep an eye on her brother while I took her outside to calm down

She got that wound up I ended up slinging her over my shoulder with her screaming ‘HELP!HELP!THIS IS NOT MY MUMMY!IM BEING KIDNAPPED!’

A large part of my soul died that wet,cold Tuesday back in 2000...

DS was about 2 when he chased a poor old man around the supermarket shouting "TRACTOR, TRACTOR".

It was a mobility scooter... 🤦🏼‍♀️😬

I needed the loo so wheeled DS pram into the baby changing room (which had a toilet in it) in Tesco.
Was in and out in 2 minutes, and as I was wheeling the pram back out (there was a small queue as the normal toilet was out of order) DS announces 'Bye bye mummy poo poo!' I was mortified. And it was only a wee, honest!!

Not in a supermarket but a dept. store loo.

3 year old dd at the top of her voice, 'My mummy's got fur on her bottom!'

Refused to go to the loo/sit on the potty- I knew she was desperate to wee but she still wouldn’t go. Promptly weed in M and S food hall, ran, slipped in her own wee, fell headlong -bumped head-huge kerfuffle- and prompted an M and S first aid response because of banged head. It was so embarrassing- all our fault -cringe!
The M and S staff were wonderful though!
I should have bundle out at the off!!!!

I was talking to my dm but could hear ds repeating something over and over trying to get my attention. When I turned to listen I realised he was saying "mommy, that lady has a beard" over and over again. It was actually a man with long hair in a pony tail.

Another time I was in a lingerie dept with 5yo. He points up to a wall and says"why does it say t shirt when there's no t shirts hanging there?" It was a wall full of t shirt bras so I told him I didn't know, didn't feel like getting into a conversation about types of bra with a 5yo boy... Then we turned a corner and he pointed to another sign and said "mum, what does push up mean?" to which another customer couldn't control her laughter and We quickly left the store

On a quiet but full train carriage my LO announced that a man had hit her. Concerned, my friend and I asked which man. She turned and pointed to a poor guy in the corner and yelled: THAT ONE! Poor guy was mortified.

Placed almost 2 year old on cashier counter in M&S whilst seeking card in coat pocket. Little one mooching through my bag finds tampon and tries to insert it through front of trousers in front of many, many shoppers who had all been cooing over him mere seconds earlier.

got on a bus one day with 3 year old DC. After about 5 minutes a young lad with bright blue hair got on. I cringed, knowing what was coming.

"mummy?" no. "mummy?" no, shhh. tell me in a minute "mummy!! that man looks like a smurf. why does he have blue hair?" because he wants blue hair now shush. entire bus is silent and im staring at the ground, trying to get DC to play with me instead of chatting. Im thinking i've won when he pipes up with "mummy? when im older can i have blue hair?" yes, you can have any colour hair you like. "and can my skin be brown like that man over there?". . i got off the bus.

DD1 was under 2 when she managed to drop a sock. A lovely olde guy picked it up and helpfully tried to put it back on her, so she kicked him in the face .

About a year later we went to Lidl, it was a long way from home, so not our usual supermarket. DD1 sat in the trolley shouting, "where's the champagne, we need champagne" the whole way round. No idea why as we don't normally buy champagne.

My then 2 ish yo DS was a little fruit bat and loved grapes in particular. Problem was he couldnt say the gr sound properly yet an i have not so fond memories of chasing an excited child that was screaming rapes at the top of his voice

Mine was normally quite a compliant child when out and about but one day while I was very pregnant she was a hell beast in the supermarket. I just remember her lying in the middle of the aisle spread out and taking up as much room as possible, arms flailing and crying. She was so strong and I was struggling to pick her up and cart her off like I would have done if I wasn’t pregnant. It was just mortifying.

Not a supermarket, but my recently potty trained son did a massive wee all over the post office floor. Thankfully they were lovely about it as I was 9 months pregnant at the time and clearly very stressed!

Running down the aisle away from me, screaming, “Please don’t hurt me mummy.”

I have no idea where it came from, but I’d have called social services on me .

My DS doesn't watch we're he is going and they had a koperberg pyramid in the middle of Tesco..... safe to say some must of been on the edge and he did hit it with a good force walking backwards and yea quite a few crates burst haha he's only 3! Just so Clumsey!

My toddler wanting to continue sitting on the ride on cars. We had already spent 30 mins on them and it was time to. Que laying face down on the floor crying. When I tried to carry him out he threw himself down again and people gave me such evils I'm pretty sure they thought I dropped him and left him on the floor to cry!

Not a supermarket, not my child but there was an "incident" in b&q when I was last in there, a family were looking at a bathroom suite, quiet and toddler pulled down training pants and climbed onto the display toilet, she only looked about 2. Staff thankfully found it super amusing and cute.

My daughter (toilet training) weed all over the floor in waitrose.

Mine age 3, very conversationally in the supermarket; "Mummy, you know some people have got black faces? Well I don't like people like that."
me: "Er, no, you don't think that, everyone is different and that's great and it's very rude to judge people's skin or looks..." (plus whatever else I could manage to say to desperately try and convince onlookers that she hadn't heard this at home)
Her: "I just don't. In fact, I hate them. I hate the way those faces look. I HATE PEOPLE WITH BLACK FACES!"
Me: sinks through floor, horrified by our new role as Most Racist Family Ever...

Fweakout you poor thing!

I like the kid doing ymca sorry forgot whose it was he sounds great

Ive been called fat by kids one of those things they just tell the truth

No quite a toddler story but I think this counts.
This is while I was babysitting my niece while her mum worked, I also collected her other daughter at the end of a school day.
So DN 1 who was 18 months was in the pram and DN 2 who was 7 years old went to the park since DN 2 had been good at school (she had a behaviour report system in place due to complications at school) and while at the park we met a little girl about the same age as my DN, she was dark skinned, after a little while of play - her mum and I sat talking - the little girl asked her mum for a drink, my DN upon realising this was her mum asked ‘Why is your mummy white and you are brown?’
Que mortification...
She meant no malice from the question, purely curiosity, thankfully the woman just laughed and said ‘because her daddy is black.’
Her reply? ‘Oh, okay.’

I did apologise profusely to the woman but she paid it no mind, we just sat there talking after that while they played.

You've reminded me. DS' school was an International one in Rome, with children from all over the world.So one day ds, about 4, says "we've got a new girl in our class.She's a brownie"
DH and I had never ever heard him comment on skin colour before and launched into an explanation of how/why this happens.
"Yes I know that!" he said," but she's a proper brownie.She was wearing her uniform and everything"
Duh!

"she's a brownie" that should be.