Funny/awkward/embarrassing things your child has done (or you did as a child!)

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I was talking with my mum the other day about the time I accidentally informed various people that my father had died.

He worked shifts and when he was on nights my mother would tell me to be quieter when he was sleeping by pointing up and going 'shhh' with her finger to her mouth.

She took me to a coffee shop one day and as my mum was talking to some other ladies, someone asked me about Daddy and I pointed up and went 'shhh', apparently looking very sad 😂

My mum had no idea until various ladies said to her how sorry they were to hear about my Dad's passing and asking her how she was coping! 🤦‍♀️

Have your kids done anything embarrassing or funny? My friends daughter once asked a gentleman wearing a turban on the bus if he was off Aladdin! She was apologetic but he was very kind about it and explained to her the meaning

I hid the keys to the front door when I was 5 and the house was up for sale. Nobody could find them anywhere and the people coming to view the house had to be asked to enter through the living room window!! Not exactly the best first impression for potential buyers. I bet my parents were mortified, but it was just even more fun for me

Ds asked if some ladies in burkas were ninjas 1st time he saw them

the people coming to view the house had to be asked to enter through the living room window!

Well they won't have forgotten your house quickly at least

My mum also told me about the time when she was really young and came in with a worm from the garden, my grandma told her to 'get rid of it!!' and she popped it quickly in her mouth much to the horror of my Gran 🤣

Dd was just 2 but was very forward with talking and was just toilet trained. One day we had an electrician in doing some work so I took her with me while I went to the loo , It was time of the month , she shouted very loud "oh mum you not pooped in knickers again did you" I was mortified!

My son asked very loudly 'mummy's where that mans arm gone '? The man only had one arm I was mortified the man was very kind smiled and walked on I go red thinking about it it was years ago !

DD (about 9/10) asked me very loudly on the bus how babies came out then answered her own question by commenting that they must come out in pieces and that you then put them together. I had to try and keep a straight face whilst everyone nearby cracked up.....

DS once thought he saw an elf in Asda. He was shouting very loudly 'mummy, mummy a lickle elf! Can we go and see him? Look mummy!Over there' pointing etc.

It was a man of short stature wearing his Asda green uniform.

That was mortifying.

My two year old reached over to a stranger on the bus and tickled his tummy, whilst saying "tickle tickle" in the cutesy voice I used when I do it. Mortified.

My two year old reached over to a stranger on the bus and tickled his tummy, whilst saying "tickle tickle" in the cutesy voice I used when I do it. Mortified.

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to find that funny and cute, if you were the one being tickled. Now, if you had gone into mummy-autopilot and done it to the adult stranger, that might be slightly different

My son laughed like a drain at a bald man on the bus. He seemed to think it was ridiculously funny that someone would purposefully have no hair. He kept pointing and shrieking with laughter and saying very loudly how silly the man was to have ‘forgotten his hair’ and I kept trying to stop him from pointing and laughing and shouting until the man rang the bell and got off. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t his stop, just mortifying.

Me and DS (3) were once next to a woman who had an extraordinarily squeaky voice. Ds's eyebrows shot up in amazement when she started speaking, and said 'who is that???' looking around, expecting to see mickey mouse or something.

He then continued to stare at her in total awe

When I was young I apparently was on the bus with my Mum and a sikh man was in front of us and I constantly asked her why the man had a bandage on his head and was extremely concerned about his head injury.
I'm 38 now and she still brings it up. Apparently he took it in good humour..

Mine was holding forth during Circle Time about how she used to enjoy beer and wine but didn't like them anymore. She was three.

One of my kids pronounced words quite clearly when young, to my embarrassment. She was thoroughly delighted with herself when she figured out that men have penises, when she wasn't quite two years old. It was a really exciting discovery.

In the street she used to point at the groins of random men while asking earnestly and very distinctly, "PENIS??"

As a toddler, I picked up and presented my Mom with a live garter snake. She was with some friends and had to pretend she was not fearful, and hold the snake herself. She told me I thought the snake was the greatest thing ever and she had to tell me how lovely it was.

I don't remember it but apparently when I was about 4 I was walking with my mother and we passed a man in a wheelchair. I blurted out Look at that lazybones he can't be bothered to stand up!

I still cringe with shame when I remember one of mine staring at a dwarf lady in a supermarket and asking too loudly Why is that lady like a baby?

My uncle emigrated to Canada in the 80's from a small town in Scotland, his daughter, my cousin, had bevwr seen a black person before.

They were out the front of their new home in Canada when a neighbour walked by, cue my cousin shouting "look Daddy someone painted that man"! My Uncle was mortified, the neighbour took it all in good grace.

My reception age child was obsessed with pregnant women. DH was a biology teacher and explaining where the eggs come out. DD asked a very pregnant lady in the park if the baby was coming out of her bum or her egg hatch?

Dd2 had a teacher who was very overweight. Ds1 who was just 2 walked over and asked her loudly infront of other parents and children "why have you got such a big tummy?"

I was mortified but the poor teacher looked like she wanted to die too

My exils were deprived of any sense of humour whatsoever and most certainly didn't find it amusing when my ds announced over tea he had acquired his first pubic hairs...

This thread has given me a much needed laugh , brilliant !

Aged 5, I was thrilled to see a man walk past in a red & black striped footy shirt. "Look mummy! It's Dennis the Menace!"

DD age 4 on the bus to lady sitting opposite. 'Why are you so fat' 'why is she so fat Mummy' continuously despite my attempts at distraction

I was just leaving the library with DS age 2 when I exclaimed 'shit' as I'd forgotten to return some books.
Whilst waiting in line DS proceeded to repeat 'shit, shit, shit' over and over again must to everyone's amusement esp as I was so and trying to ignore him so as not to encourage him further

My ds when he was younger told a bus full of mainly old ladies that he didn't have siblings but it was ok because he knew that daddy had to give mummy a seed to get one and that he would give me a seed if daddy wouldnt.

When I was 5 I drew my grandad a birthday card of him going down a slide with no clothes on and the caption Look At My Willy!!. I was most upset when I wasnt allowed to send it