Kids thought grandad was an urn

[Funnythem]

My dad died in 2005 . 2 of my children were already born. My middle 2 born after his death . Anyway I kept his ashes on a shelve. If we were looking for something we may say its next to grandad . Said this for years . My middle 2 never had a grandad. And they actually thought grandad was a jar/ urn . They never knew grandads were a living people.

They are older now I was just reflecting. Seems so odd they thought that .

Honestly, kids are pretty thick sometimes! They accept things at face value and don't have the frames of reference that we do as adults.

It's why we shouldn't let them make important decisions!

🤣 it was so odd when I realised

Everytime my little boy sneezes I say 'oh, bless you' and it turns out he thought the name for a sneeze is a 'bless you'. He sneezed the other day and said, 'that was a big bless you'.

I remember asking my mum what she meant by grandad’s ashes after he died. She told me they were what you leave behind when you die. For years I thought that some kind of compartment opened up from your side and ashes came out when you died.

@Funnythem no it seems so odd that you would keep your fathers ashes on display for 19 years!!!! that is a heck of a long time to be looking at an urn!! it is quite sad that your kids though their grandad is an urn.

I have two dd to different dads. When youngest was old enough to understand we would explain dh is your daddy. Exh is dd1 daddy.

One day she says to me "who's dd1 mummy?"

Why on earth is that strange? Why shouldn't she have his urn wherever she wants it? What a horrible post

Not offended some people will find it strange that's ok. Didn't realise it was 19 years though 🤣

It's a perfectly normal thing to do for me too, I have an urn in a cabinet so it seemed such a weird thing to pick at!

Hardly a newsflash moment of different people do things differently 😂

My friends dad's ashes have been on her living room shelf for around 12 years now, she just can't bring herself to scatter them still

This made me think I wonder what the grandchildren think when we say becareful with granny and grandad when they touch the paper weights we have made from ashes 🤣

Is it wrong that I find this absolutely bloody hilarious? 🤣🤣

My husband and I share the same birthday (10th May). Our children assumed for many years that all parents share a birthday and that parents' birthdays were like mothers day or fathers day 🤣

We just never thought to explain that, and just assumed they knew it....clearly not lol

Sorry OP but this really tickled me 🙊

And I don't think it's sad that the ashes were in your house for so long. It's kind of sweet that he was up there still with you all.

You should have seen the look on my DD1’s face when she realised that BIL was DH’s brother.

She hadn’t clicked, even though they both called PIL “Mum and dad”.

Although the highlight in our house has always been the day that DS1, then 6, saw his teacher in the supermarket with her husband and was actually mind blown that Mrs Little had a husband, a child and a first name 😂 He came home chatting at a rate of knots telling me all about it.

When dd was in year 1, she came home and said her teacher calls her "Morning Lucy"

🤣🤣🤣 it is funny how their little minds think. But them when we think a bit more deeper you can understand their logic . Still funny though

As a child I asked my dad how he knew that our new kitten was a boy and without blinking he told me "by the colour of his eyes" I was a fully fledged adult before I questioned his honesty, never occurred to me that he wasn't telling me a known fact

When my daughter was about 3 she kept calling breasts elbows. Very very odd, really couldn't understand it, kept correcting her, she'd get it right for a while and then revert. Then I finally realised that every time she elbowed me in the breast I would loudly say "elbows" to make her stop.

#SewingBees I came on to say the exact same thing - funny it happened funnier I am not the only one!!!

When DD1 was 10 a friend asked her what we (Dh and me) were called.
'Mum and Dad' she replied. 'No, what are their names?!'

'MUM and DAD!' Turned out she didn't realise parents had actual names of their own