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Why are three year olds so mortifying!?

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HairsprayBabe · 18/09/2025 13:22

Just got a call from nursery - a wellness check - DD told her key worker that "mummy is very sick from drinking too much wine" 🙃

Key worker saw me at drop off and I was clearly not drunk or hungover - she just had to check and we laughed about it.

To be clear - I drink a few times a year, Christmas, weddings ect. and never to excess, 3 max 4 drinks. My children have never seen me drunk or throwing up hungover. I haven't even had a hangover since way before I had kids.

Me and DH and extended family have openly joked about pre-kids, uni life, hen-dos, weddings etc that have included "being sick from too much wine" - not just me! Which I know is where it has likely come from but I am SO embarrassed, really looking forwards to pick up this afternoon 😬maybe I do need a wine!

Make me feel better with the lovely things your little darlings have said about you!

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AInightingale · 21/09/2025 10:33

SpencerTheRover · 21/09/2025 10:15

DH’s story from before we met:

He was on a bus with toddler DS. DS kept staring at a lady on the bus dressed in all her finery, despite being admonished for doing so.

In the end DS piped up, at the kind of volume the entire bus could hear:

‘Dad! Why has that lady got a dead fox hanging round her neck?’

He was quite right! Those things are gross, I can't believe anyone ever wore them. Emperor's new clothes moment, delivered by a child.

breakfastdinnerandtea · 21/09/2025 11:18

evtheria · 19/09/2025 07:33

I remember being on a particularly hairy flight, with lots of turbulence and when the plane was one of those smaller ones with propellers… Everyone was strapped in and silent, white knuckles gripping armrests etc. My sibling, then about 3, clearly and calmly, with the voice projection of the finest and well-trained West End actor, went “And now we are going to die.” In the following seconds I thought my mum was going to, anyway.

This is my favourite 😂😂😂 I can just picture it
Also “skeleton face” as a very close second

Wayk · 21/09/2025 12:47

DobryWieczor · 19/09/2025 23:18

When I was 3 or 4 I went to nursery with a tampon sitting in my knickers then wet myself and had to be changed. My mum was mortified when the nursery teacher presented the tampon - I think mum had said something about big ladies using them and I’d wanted to be grown up

That is so funny..

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Wayk · 21/09/2025 12:48

ZanderRooney · 19/09/2025 13:59

My son was never very creative or imaginative, more logical, so when he wrote his best story ever about Mummy being arrested for shoplifting in the Co-Op, his teachers were very surprised to see me turn up for school pick up! They did not think he had the imagination to create such a story!

That must have been mortifying. 🤣🤣🤣

DobryWieczor · 21/09/2025 12:57

When my youngest brother was born, my next youngest brother took him into nursery for show and tell. Teacher asked who he looked like and my brother replied “the neighbour”

AInightingale · 21/09/2025 14:25

DobryWieczor · 21/09/2025 12:57

When my youngest brother was born, my next youngest brother took him into nursery for show and tell. Teacher asked who he looked like and my brother replied “the neighbour”

😂😂This wins!

AlwaysAnExcuseForEverything · 21/09/2025 14:43

I had just taken DS, aged about 3, to the toilets in Tesco's when he suddenly started talking loudly about vulvas (he'd recently asked me what that part of my anatomy was and it temporarily became his favourite word.) As if that weren't embarrassing enough, he then pointed at someone on a mobility scooter and yelled, "you can't ride that in here!"

GrombotPollyDog1 · 21/09/2025 14:46

We were preparing to go to a festival a few years back and were in GoOutdoors. I decided to 'treat' myself to a SheWee.

In the car in the way home, my 4YO son was intrigued and asked what it was and what I needed it for. I explained it was a pretend willy so that I could do a standing wee at the festival. All good, no further questions or comments.

Cue a week later, I was paying for soft play when out of nowhere, he announced 'my mummy just got a new purple willy'. The poor teenage Saturday girl had no idea what to say or where to look while I protested repeatedly that it was a SheWee to the sniggering parents stood around me...the shame!

StrugglingwithIvanhoe · 21/09/2025 14:48

My DD, aged about 7, wrote in her "what I did at the weekend" diary at school that we'd had a party at the weekend and that "mummy smoked some funny cigarettes". Reader, it was the 1980s, and they were Sobranie Cocktail!

TheShyMumX · 21/09/2025 15:30

The first time my niece saw identical twins was in the supermarket she was blatantly staring as we realised what she was so transfixed on we realised the twins mum had also noticed and niece then walked into one of the columns. Broke the ice as we were going to apologise for her goggling at the poor woman😂

Ohnobackagain · 21/09/2025 15:58

sexnotgenders · 18/09/2025 17:45

My 4 year old DD once loudly said to quite a frail and thin old lady on a train “hello skeleton face”. I genuinely didn’t know where to look

OMG that’s hilarious, mortifying but hilarious

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/09/2025 22:04

Gdd1 was still just under 3 when nursery staff asked what she was doing in the play kitchen.
‘I’m having a glass of wine.’ 😂

Lurleenlumpkin79 · 22/09/2025 03:35

In lockdown, my 4 year old would loudly shout out who wasn't wearing a mask when he was sat in trolley as we went around Morrison's.

Sadworld23 · 22/09/2025 07:25

shellyleppard · 18/09/2025 14:59

I used to take my son into the toilet cubicle with me when he was little. He was very surprised when he saw my sanitary towel and shouted for help as I had cut myself!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😂

Aah the 'mummy you're bleeding ' squeal

T1Dmama · 22/09/2025 18:53

My daughter was forever saying funny stuff…
she told preschool that daddy walked around in mummys knickers … they said they said ‘oh does he?’ And were laughing… she then said … ‘yeah and he walks over Tesco naked!!…. Then said ‘I’m only joking!!!!

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