Tell me your backhanded compliments from children

[MysticMary]

Inspired by DD (age 3) just asking me "mummy, why are your boobs so long?"
😂

Not so backhanded but I love it when my 7 year old DD says “mummy, can I please have that dress/skirt/shirt etc when I grow up?” Honestly, it makes my day (week?) every time 😂😂😂

And from my son after asking me why I was putting on makeup (I answered to make myself beautiful), he walked off saying, ‘My mummy is the beautiful-est. she is not like the other mummies, she is more.’

God love him. The nicest compliment I ever had.

That's a compliment 😂😂These are amazing

Why have you got such hairy arms ?

Mummy, I love your spiky little hedgehog legs 😁

Mummy your tummy is lovely and squashy. Just like Shrek's.

Our son regularly tells me he likes the black stripes I have added to my hair…I guess I don’t have much black left as he used to like my white stripes.

He always tells me I’m like Jafar from Aladdin in everyway in the live action version.

I love thé way your elbows are so squishy 😳

I'm 50 today and we were looking through old photos. My 12 year old said "mum, your face hasn't changed but your body has".

This is some of my little gems thus far:
12 month old pointed to a relatives cross hung on the wall which has Jesus on. Then said "mummy". We laughed for ages because she could see the hair was long and straggly like mine (no disrespect to Jesus) but I was like, do I have a beard?

I once had my hair curled at the hairdressers and got "mummy you look like a beautiful lion" then my other child said no it's more like those curly dog ears (think she meant a king Charles spaniel).

I got a long military style coat which made me look like Dracula, apparently.

I got my eye brows tinted and my youngest was scared of me and my 9 year old said, wow will they stay like that 🤣

My eldest DC7 loves my squishy, wrinkly Mum tum. If I'm ever getting changed or I'm wandering around in my Bra he always shouts "BELLY!!" And goes to cuddle it 😅

On holiday last week, I'd scrubbed up for a night out and my youngest GC said, "nan, you look so young. Are you really 100?".

Still trying to figure that one out

Toddler DD asked me to build a castle for her toy bunny out of magnetic tiles. When I finished she said, "That's very pretty, mummy! But Bunny doesn't like it" and proceeded to take it apart.

Also once had, "Oh mummy - you're not wearing your rings! You're not pretty any more..."

“You have a lovely face, mummy. Here’s your eyes, and here’s your nose, and there’s your lips, and there’s your chin. And there’s your other chin.”

Not sure if this is a backhanded compliment to me or teacher, but:

'I love Mrs X. She's soft and cuddly, just like you.' (We're both overweight. Also both kind, nurturing people, I like to think!)

"Mummy, you have drawn on your eyes" when I put makeup on.

Grandson to DH: "Come on, Grandpa, another game of football! "
DH, jokingly: "Ooh, no lad, I'm very old!"
Grandson, in a gentle voice: " Yes, but you've had a good life..."

Really sweet nice 12 year old taking a photo of me after getting ready for a night out, looks at the photo “oh, that one isn’t so good, you don’t look like that in real life” 🙌

Your hair looks beautiful mummy, I love the silver stripes (at it least it reminded me I needed my roots done)

My niece once asked my sister what life was like during the war (my sister was born in 1978)

Howling

ds1 to ds2 (talking g about homework in a subject I cover at work): "You have to remember, ds2, Mum is a very useful resource."

Mummy you're so big... but strong?!?

(I'm only a size 16 cheeky fucker)

Dd1 was adamant dh was on tv - it was tiger woods. Dh is very white. She also declared she liked my wobbly bits (after dtds were born)!

That I looked pretty today like her step-mum. I'll take it!