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Embarassing behaviour

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Lynne33 · 27/09/2002 11:45

Just thought I would share my embarrasment with you all. My dd has taken to shouting abuse at innocent by-standers!!! It's true, she'll just decide she doesn't like the look of someone and shout 'Go 'way lady, go 'way man' at the top of her voice. I'm standing there shooshing away and telling her not to be so rude, and she's loving watching me squirm. Has anyone else experienced this?

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SoupDragon · 28/09/2002 08:51

Seeing the fart comment brings to mind the many times I've been in a toilet cubicle with DS1 and had to listen to his running commentry on how his poo is progressing, knowing there's someone else listening. Phrases like "It's really difficult" and "There's one hanging".... oh the joys of motherhood!!

Ghosty · 28/09/2002 09:23

Soupdragon - Lol!

Hilary · 28/09/2002 11:50

When my eldest son was newly potty trained and thus fascinated with wees and poos, we were in Ottakers one day when he decided he needed a wee. As there were only two cubicles, one out of order, and a queue of people waiting, I sat my son on his potty near the sinks. He watched a lady going into the cubicle and said, 'What is she doing Mummy?' 'She's just going in there' I say indistinctly. After a few seconds pause and the inevitable sound of tinkling water began, he laughed and said at the top of his voice, 'Oh, I know, she's doing a wee!' Everyone heard him and so must the lady in the cubicle. The poor lady had to appear from the cubicle in front of everyone to the sound of my sons raucous laughter.

Tinker · 28/09/2002 11:53

tigermoth - I was getting some funny looks at work trying not to laugh out loud at that one - loved it.

Once when distributing charity envelopes door to door, this old lady came out to my then 2 year all benign smiles and said 'What's your name?' to be greeted with her Mussolini impression and a barked 'Shut up'

She calls them 'square' words as well, which I don't want to correct.

monkey · 28/09/2002 12:36

When dh was but 2 years old, he apparently walked up to his buxom aunt, patted her bussom & said, "Why are your tits so big?". Pil insist they'd never used the word 'tit' before, but till the day she died, she was know by the whole family as 'aunty big tits'. I never met her, so didn't get introduced, unfortunately.

Following on from Ghosty's fart story, my 2 ds's are obsessed with bodily functions & love copying each other. The latest craze is when one of them pumps (as we call it), they immediately blame me & start shouting 'mummy pumping' together at the tops of their voices. They now do this even if one of them burps. I was dreading my family visit this weekend, thinking they'd never believe I don'y have a massive flatulence problem, but luckily it seems to be moving on to 'nana pumping'. She gets soooo embarrassed

Willow2 · 28/09/2002 12:40

just remembered another one...

it was the Queen's silver jubilee and a man came to our home selling commemorative mugs. "They have the words 'Queen Regina' beautifully embossed" he proudly proclaimed... "The Queen's vagina?" shouted my little sister. I don't think we bought the mugs.

tigermoth · 28/09/2002 14:58

Lynne, soupdragon and SB34 what a brilliant idea to pretend that the mega bad word is a less bad word. I'll definitely try it.

Glad I'm not alone in my embarassment - I've enjoyed reading everyone's stories.

tigermoth · 28/09/2002 14:59

Willow2, I guess your little sister did things the other way round with her mistaken words.

susanmt · 29/09/2002 23:48

On the bus on Saturday going to town. We had to stop because of sheep on the road. Little voice beside me pipes up 'bl**dy sheep!' When I told dh abou tthis he had to admit it is his fault! This, of course, follows on from last weeks stripping naked on the bus episode (see nakes toddlers thread!) so I think they're going to start refusing me a ticket before long!

Tinker · 29/09/2002 23:54

Ah, my daughter accompanied my brother to Mass today (I know, but it gives me an hours break) and announced in a loud voice 'I don't believe in God'. Possibly not the best place to make such a announcement

Inkpen · 03/10/2002 23:28

Oh, this thread has cheered me up! My technique with ds, when he had picked up on inappropriate use (by me, of course) of the word 'bloody' was to look mystified and innocent and say things like, 'No, darling, I said muddy' or 'ruddy' or anything else I could come up with that seemed vaguely likely. (Buses could be either, which was handy!) That stopped it faster than anything else I came up with ... probably because he was so confused!

rabbitrabbit · 14/08/2006 21:42

I had to bump this thread as I've just found it and it's the funniest thing I've read in ages!

brimfull · 14/08/2006 22:26

My friends dd aged about 4 at the time opened the font door for the midwife and shouted to her mum
"mummy,it's the bloody midwife!"

marthamoo · 14/08/2006 22:49

This thread has really made me laugh tonight - thanks for resurrecting it. Funnily enough, last week on holiday, ds2 managed a classic. We were in the Lakes and we went to the Lodore Falls hotel for lunch (it's a bit posh but allows hiking boot shod rabbly types like us in at lunchtime). There was a wedding reception going on there when we arrived and I had to take him to the loo. When we went in one of the wedding guests was checking her make-up in the mirror. I didn't really notice anything other than she was rather tall. When we got in the cubicle, ds2 piped up in his loudest voice "is this the girls' toilet, Mummy?" to which I replied yes, it was.

"Then why is that man out there?"

(I was dying and we had to wait in the cubicle til she'd gone...)

Olihan · 14/08/2006 23:01

Ds has just got to the age of being incredibly embarrassing and his favourites at the moment are to announce in a very loud voice 'mummy, I've trumped' and 'bollocks'.

His best one yet though was in a toilet in the middle of the zoo, HUGE queue of people waiting, I had a wee after him and he observes at the top of his voice 'you're wiping your hairy bits, mummy'. Cue v. red faced walk out of the loos!

justamum · 14/08/2006 23:11

lol at all of these
my friends ds 4 refuses to accept that she doesn't have a willy, one day they were in a communal changing room when he shouted "for gods sake mummy,stop hiding your willy" as she is 6ft, she got some very funny looks.
We have also convinced my ds 2.6 to say "puddin nell" instead of the rude version, he still says it in context though

northstar · 14/08/2006 23:17

I took my friends 5yr old ds to the swimming pool and he is the loudest little boy I have ever heard. As we were all getting undressed in the family cubicle he shouts at the top of his squeaky voice " Guess what, guess what ..... I got WORMS!!!!!!!!"
Turns out it is a computer game.

MeAndMyBoy · 14/08/2006 23:36

Loved the stories, my face is aching with laughing.

We use for 5 minutes instead of for F* sake. which DS hasn't picked up on but he has picked up on bloody hell and blast.

But we've been on holiday with a gang of friends for the last 2 weeks and he has been playing with 4 older children and his current fav game is name calling particularly poo poo head and wee wee head. Charming!! he's back at nursery today but leaves in 2 weeks which I am very grateful for as I am sure that he will have all the kid's in his room playing name calling games very soon and my name will be mud

rabbitrabbit · 15/08/2006 13:55

I took my son into some toilets yesterday and as he sat in the toilet he announced-at the top of his voice-"did you hear my HUGE fart mum", cue helpless giggles (from both of us. )

Lazycow · 20/08/2008 12:15

In the changing room while swimming recently , out of the blue Ds asked "Mummy why did you hit the f*ing bollard?"

I may need to explain here that I had hit a bollard in our newly acquired car a couple of weeks before

Also in the same leisure centre more recently while in the toilet, ds said '

"Mummy you don't have a willy so you can't wee in a bush, you have to sit down. Only boys have willies, what do girls have?"

I didn't mind the conversation per se, just that it was being held at toddler volume in a public toilet yet another .

nowirehangers · 20/08/2008 12:55

during my wedding ceremony my dd1 who was just 2 sat on my knee in the registry office yelling to our friends and family
"I got diarrhea"
Which she had. Luckily no sign of it for as long as her parents said their vows

potatofactory · 20/08/2008 13:04

I went up to a neighbour when I was a child, and said 'My mum says your son's backward'. I expect that went down well.

spinspinsugar · 20/08/2008 13:19

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threekids · 20/08/2008 13:22

A good example of the extreme end of the spectrum.

My eldest, who has left home now used to do things like this all the time, and i spent my life in fear Her words managed to upset relationships with those around us. She did it from the time she could talk until she left home! Relationships finally got re-built when they could see it was just the way she was, she was finally diagnosed with a personality disorder.

My other children didn't do it so much but maybe i got immune to it?

It makes us stronger people

spinspinsugar · 20/08/2008 13:25

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