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Things only children can get away with saying...

66 replies

SchnizelVonKrumm · 17/04/2025 14:30

DS(4) is very pleased with some new pants I bought him with a dinosaur design. So pleased that he wanted to wear them straightaway, and couldn't wait to show DP when he got home from work, saying "Daddy, I've got a surprise for you under my trousers!". It was so innocent and funny!

What have your children said that only a little child could get away with?

OP posts:
DilemmaDelilah · 18/04/2025 17:38

My eldest once announced loudly to me that 'Daddy's in the bath with NO clothes on!'

ParsnipPuree · 18/04/2025 17:48

My ds at reception at primary saying “I played with a nice brown boy at break!”

Daffodilsarefading · 18/04/2025 17:52

Ds when he was about 3, mummy is that man having a baby? About an overweight friend of ours.

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 18/04/2025 18:02

ArtemisiaTheArtist · 17/04/2025 15:00

DD was about four and saw an African gentleman in the street wearing his church robes whilst we went by on a bus.

"Mummy, WHY is that man in his pyjamas?"

She's grown up now.

I was out and about with the little girl I was nannying when a man with one leg passed us, and she pointed him out with an excited cry of 'Look, a pirate!!' 😳

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 18/04/2025 18:05

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 17/04/2025 21:20

Why’s that lady got an orange face? (Pointing to my over made up boss, who I had bumped into and was chatting with, in the street)

Oh God, your boss?!! 😄

User16042025 · 18/04/2025 18:09

Not very exciting but my 2.5year old out of the blue said to me 'Mummy, you have a very big bum don't you?'

PauliesWalnuts · 18/04/2025 18:10

My cousin once asked my dad’s cousin why his head was on upside down - he was bald with a beard.
And my mum raced out of nursery on the first day to tell my mum “I have met two boys with the same face!”. It was my friend’s younger brothers who were identical twins.

GingerLiberalFeminist · 18/04/2025 18:16

DD is 2 and in the dangerous "repeating phase". I've had to pull DH up after DD repeated "Mummy has a very lovely bottom" 😅😅😅

CurlewKate · 18/04/2025 19:02

My niece (a farm child) told her teacher that her dad had been castrated. It was a vasectomy, for clarity!

SpringIsSpringing25 · 18/04/2025 19:04

SchnizelVonKrumm · 17/04/2025 14:36

They were suitably admired, yes! It was so cute. I wish I was still of an age where new pants were that exciting! 😅

I bet your DH thinks Yournew pants are something to be admired!!

Cheepcheepcheep · 18/04/2025 19:09

My eldest has a friend at nursery whose mum is a SAHM - she’s utterly lovely but I have extreme jealousy that they can afford nursery breaks for her mum on a single salary! Nursery is next to the gym and friend’s mum often drops her DD and then heads to the gym for a couple of hours.

We had a campaign of a few weeks with DD berating me for not going to the gym straight after drop off. “Pleeeeease go to the gym after you drop me off mummy’ ‘Mummy please, you have to go to the gym!’ ‘why aren’t you like X’s mummy going to the gym all the time?’

No idea why she was so fixated, X’s mum is lovely and maybe she wanted me to be like her but ‘sorry darling, I’m off to work’ didn’t cut it for some reason!

If DH had demanded I go to the gym to be like some other random woman he’d be looking at the thick end of a decree nisi 😂 anyway I can’t be arsed

Fizbosshoes · 18/04/2025 19:10

When DD was about 2, she found a tampon that had fallen out of a box in the cupboard, she took it to DH and said "here you are Daddy, you stick it up your bum!!!" BlushBlushBlush

When she was a bit older (maybe 9) I was doing a workout dvd, the presenter did an intro about how if you continued with the workout regularly, you'd see changes to your body, DD "I don't think its working for you mummy!!" 😂

NW3Lady · 18/04/2025 19:20

My 4 year-old to our neighbour…

’We can see you in your pyjamas through our window you know!’

Cognacsoft · 18/04/2025 19:22

When dd was little she sucked her thumb. Because of this if ndn's cats tried too poo in our garden I would shoo them off with a psssst.
Ds, the older brother, told my friend that Mummy pisses at the cats.

He also told everyone that he caught crabs in Corfu.
Yes, real ones in a bucket! I clarified quickly.

Adhdmum2 · 18/04/2025 19:31

Exclusively breastfed daughter up to age 2. When walking through the underwear section of matalan, DD innocently announces upon sign of the bras "I love boobies".... Good for you darling

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 18/04/2025 19:33

Reported.

SchnizelVonKrumm · 18/04/2025 20:19

SpringIsSpringing25 · 18/04/2025 19:04

I bet your DH thinks Yournew pants are something to be admired!!

Well I'm a few months post c-section so maybe he will be once my massive granny pants era ends! 😅

OP posts:
Crikeyalmighty · 18/04/2025 20:24

On coming from a pub loo when my son was around 3 - mummy’s just had a big poo

SpringIsSpringing25 · 18/04/2025 21:05

SchnizelVonKrumm · 18/04/2025 20:19

Well I'm a few months post c-section so maybe he will be once my massive granny pants era ends! 😅

I'm sure they will.

he might even have a thing about you in granny pants aka Bridget jones!!

ILoveChocolateAndCheese · 18/04/2025 21:30

My DD was about 4years old we were out for the day and went to the toilet, then both washed our hands. My DD watched a lady walk out of a cubical straight out of the toilets without even attempting to wash her hands. In that child quiet (loud) voice said, she didn't wash her hands thats disgusting.TBF I couldn't argue...

wizzbitt · 18/04/2025 21:32

My DD 7 has no filter and is ASC - although I’m not sure if the two are linked. She has said the following at the top of her voice - are you pregnant? To a lady who wasn’t pregnant. Thankfully she laughed. She berated another woman for smoking, again woman just laughed and agreed she should stop smoking. She had a habit of greeting our elderly neighbours “hello old people!” I have since explained why a “hello” is just fine so now when she sees them she says to me, again at the top of her voice, “oh look it’s our old neighbours, don’t worry I won’t call them old when I see them!” Of course they and half the street have heard her at this point.
I’m hoping as she gets older she’ll develop some sort of filter.

Thecomfortador · 18/04/2025 21:43

Walking in Heaton Park with ds1, I forget how old. Group of hasidic Jewish men walking towards us, a couple of them older with long beards -in a loud voice - mummy, who are those funny wizard men?

HÆLTHEPAIN · 18/04/2025 22:10

At 4, I exclaimed excitedly to my father that the woman’s (orange & round) hat in front of us on the bus looked just like a Belisha beacon.

She wasn’t impressed.

GettingMySpringOn · 18/04/2025 22:14

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 18/04/2025 19:33

Reported.

Haha why how bizzare

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 18/04/2025 22:16

GettingMySpringOn · 18/04/2025 22:14

Haha why how bizzare

Not the thread ,the crypto recovery post was an advert.
Nothing bizarre in reporting adverts.

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