To ask your most crippling put down from a child?

[PunkyPirate]

My daughter stuck her head in my crotch area this evening when we were sat in the sofa, sniffed deeply then went "Agghhhh... Mummma!! You stink! You need to remember to wash your foof!!!"

I was mortified!!! Admittedly, it was day 3/4 of wearing the same jeans! 🙈😂

My youngest DS is 8 and never holds back. Yesterday we were out for a walk and I was in a good mood and started singing quietly to myself. I could feel his eyes boring into me and stopped. 'Mum, seriously, it's embarrassing for kids when their parents sing. Especially in public.'

@Rangoon

For a previous poster, I don't know that things are true just because a child says it. My toddler told people at creche that her mother had false teeth, a big bottom and her boobs came down to her waist. I wore a tooth splint at night but had all my own teeth, had a 32a chest and what could be described as a very small rear being a tallish size 8 weighing around 8 stone.

Definitely.

I was helping at school one time when the teacher asked the class who'd watched TV last night. I watched as DD put her hand up. We don't have a TV (nor had she been anywhere else).
I chuckled over this with the TA, who told me that one of her sons had told the teachers with lots of gory details that they were getting divorced... they got a phone call because he said "mummy isn't coping" among worse things. His two closest (out of school) friends' parents were going through rather acrimonious divorces and she guessed he was trying to empathise.

Six year old this morning: how old are you Mummy?
Me: almost 39
Four year old: oh no Mummy! You’re almost 100!

8yo DD : "Are you happy you had babies? Even though we destroyed your tummy? Do you mind it being all floppy?" With accompanying look of horror.

MY DD when she was about 5. We were just popping out to the supermarket, I had blue jeans and a grey, very ordinary t-shirt. She looked at me, scrunched up her face and said: You can't wear that, people will laugh at you.

She had a sequinned dress on herself, which is obviously proper attire for the supermarket.

I would offer one piece of advice. Wear panty liners if you want to wear jeans or any other trousers for more than a day. I am a great “sniffer” and I discovered years ago that trousers could stay fresh for longer if I wore them. Also, change the liner during the day. And of course fresh pants (knickers) every day. As for children well you get honesty and a laugh.

@Karmachameleons

I was telling a fellow teacher friend about a telling off I had given a class in school that day. Friend’s 6 year old was listening in and piped up: “you’re cruel”! An exaggeration I assure you, but certainly gave me pause for thought.

'Yes that was my aim all along!' would have been reply.

The 3/4 days of wearing the same jeans i don't think is the problem here... I think what the issue was was the smell. If the jeans are dirty or smelly I think thats a sign to wash, not just continue wearing bcoz you will only wash them after 4 days 😒

I don't wear jeans for more than 2 days. It is pretty gross to be honest. At least it was your child telling you and not someone at work maybe. I've noticed certain smells from people at work etc and not just BO. It is really noticeable and people who dont notice it are the ones who do it!

@Fifthtimelucky

Back in the 1970s, when I had my first jeans, I washed them perhaps every 3 months. That was quite normal, as I recall - not just me.

I recall knowing people as a student who never washed their jeans, they were thrown out when they became too horrible and/or torn unfashionably.

@stayingaliveisawayoflife

I'm a teacher. Year six child pointed to her foot and said 'Talk to this because you can't get any lower than you are.'

That is truly appalling - I hope there was disciplinary action taken over that? I'd be horrified if my child was so disrespectful to a teacher!

Please ignore the people on here trying to derail the thread with their obsession with smelly fannies! I wonder about the motives of some of these people..

Its rubbish to say that children always say the truth ds2 told his nursery teacher daily for about 6 weeks that I had a baby in my tummy. She didn't think much of it , just assumed maybe I was pregnant and wasn't ready to announce. I suddenly dropped some weight (it was quite noticeable to be fair as I dropped from a 12 to an 8) and she was concerned I was unwell with the pregnancy. So he asked me discreetly (ds2 was bumbling around my feet) and I was completely confused and said huh? I'm not pregnant, we both looked down at him and he piped up cheerily "well mummy has a big tummy so it must be a baby" . He had been absolutely convinced , poor nursery teacher had been considering how to support him through a new arrival and everything .

And for the smug poster ...of course he was told off for personal comments. He was 4 at the time and that's how they learn. He had heard someone else say it , repeated it , told by me it wasn't appropriate....bingo lesson learnt. Love the fact you reached for a way to be smug. That was some effort there to find a reason to validate yourself.

Ds1 made me laugh the other day ,he had a school project to write a letter to a family member to get them to change their eating habits to be more healthy (don't even get me started on that one) and stopped looked at me and I just said "don't even think about it " and he grinned and said " wouldn't dare mum I've learnt my lesson " ,I mean it took the boy 5 years not to put his foot in his mouth but I suppose we got there .

My DD aged two, sitting on my sisters lap, drawing a house and family, my DSis going on and on about how clever and arty she was. DD then drew five or six straight lines down on the picture she had drawn of my sister.

DSis “What are those for, is it a gate.”
DD “It’s not a gate, it’s the hairs on your chin”
DSis “Horrible bloody child” and launched DD off her lap.

Tbf, we were all pissing ourselves, couldn’t get a word out of any of us for the next hour or so!

My DSis still brings it up to this day, it was 16 years ago! Clearly hasn’t got over it!

@BeautifulStar

Please ignore the people on here trying to derail the thread with their obsession with smelly fannies! I wonder about the motives of some of these people..

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@BeautifulStar

Please ignore the people on here trying to derail the thread with their obsession with smelly fannies! I wonder about the motives of some of these people..

Ummm the OP is the one who started the thread in the first instance. Bit of a weird subject choice if she’s that bothered?

I was a French teacher in the UK when I was in my early twenties. In the school I was at, French wasn't a well-loved subject. I spent most of my time just trying to control the class and stop them from smoking/shitting in the drawers/stabbing each other/ripping up my worksheets... It was bad.
One day, a group of lads decided to point out my moustache (very soft, blond down). This went on all lesson. They thought it was hilarious.
At the end of the class, one little boy (year 9, I think), stayed behind and said: "It's alright, Miss. It's nice to 'ave a bit of mootache".
It's stayed with me forever! Ha!

When DS1 was about 10 he told me that I looked like someone on TV. Turned out to be Noel Fielding

The best example I ever heard in this line was contributed on MN by someone else years ago. Apologies for stealing your anecdote, if you're still here!

She and her very young daughter were on the bus. They'd recently had to have several conversations about not making personal remarks about other people's appearance etc. A very fat man got on and the poster saw her daughter's eyes widen as she looked at him. The poster shook her head and her daughter kept quiet. They got up to get off the bus and as they passed the man the tiny child said to him 'It's all right, we're not going to talk about how fat you are until we get off''.

Minky37 she’s not bothered though. She obviously thought it was light hearted enough to start a thread and ask for other stories - which like minded people have. You’ve clearly missed that. It’s interesting though that a few posters have really focused on that instead of what the thread is actually about. I wonder if they go through life ‘not getting the joke’ ..

It's absolutely normal to wear jeans a few times. Designers will tell you the same - it ruins the denim.

If you watch Queer Eye, there was even a tip in the last season to put your jeans in the freezer overnight if they smell a bit!

I wash tops every time (or maybe every second if it have a t-shirt or singlet underneath and obviously pants daily, but if you're clean and your pants are, why would so much be going through to your trousers anyway?

Like on all the towel/pyjama threads, the washing obsessives of MN are making themselves so much work, adding cost to their lives and destroying the planet while they're at it.

@smoothchange

Wearing the same jeans is fine if you wash. If your kid is smelling your fanny through your jeans you clearly haven't washed. I'm stunned anyone would admit to being quite so vile.

This.

DD (6): "Mum- Sally is a bit better than you, because she climbs trees and does cartwheels with me instead of just watching"

(Sally being the OW her dad left me for 3 months before....15 years my junior, closer to my daughter's age than her dad's so no wonder she had the energy for cartwheels...)

"That's nice dear" I said.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

You had the same jeans on for 3 or 4 days. No disrespect or hurt intended, but that’s grim and not to mention rank. It’s no wonder you were stinking. 🤮

I wear mine for at least that long and they don't smell. I wear knickers, so theres no crotch touching denim. Why would they smell? I'm not washing clothes I have worn for a couple of hours a few days a week, thats insanity.

I'm really enjoying this thread, but can I gently suggest not feeding the, ahem, derailers?

As you were