cute but embarassing personal comments in public - how do you deal with it?

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Had our first one yesterday. Ds1 and I in Drs waiting room and only one other person in there, a fit, bronzed man in a T-shirt. Ds1 is currently going to monkeynastix classes and has a bit of a crush on the guy that runs them. He constantly talks about him. So in the waiting room ds pipes up "that man looks like the monkey man mummy." and then repeats and repeats. Of course to ds this was the highest complement, so he didn't understand that it wasn't the best thing to say. So how do you deal with this kind of comment?

I can cope with the kids but when its your mil.... heading down the escalator on the tube one day and she points across to the up escalator and shouts to her sister (step behind me) "Margaret! Look at that big fat black woman! Look, there!" etc.

Later that day she gave a beggar in trafalgar square a packet of bird seed "so you can give your little one something for dinner"

Eh? your MIL said these comments?

yep. Later that day she made a retching noise when I ordered squid in a restaurant.

honestly was like having 2 toddlers with me!

My little charge used to emabarress me SOO many times...

He was learning about boys and girls and wouldnt stop talking about boys have a willy / girls not got a willy...

we were in tesco and 'helping' me load conyaer belt... i said can you give that to the lady please.... to which he replied "she not a got a willy" i said no in an attempt to ignore it... so he then asked her "You not got willy?"

Wher we live it is a VERY white area, so when we saw a black mum and girl swimming o=in pool (to be fair was liekly to be 1st time hed EVER seena balck person) he asked why is she so dirty... why is she brown LOADS!

and (the worst!).... also in the changing rooms at swimming, he was chaned, i was in cubicle getting dressed this lady was in the shower naked...

he shouted "Look, shes got the 'same bottom' as you... and would not stop saying it until i came and had a LOOK at it

We also live in white-farmer-country so I've been waiting for the "Why is that person black?" question - I thought I would say "Because her family is from a country where it's very hot and her skin is darker to protect her from the sun."

Is that a reasonable answer?! Can anyone give me a better one?! Gah!

My problem is that my 2 year-old dd keeps saying "LOOK THAT BOY'S WITH HIS GRANDMA/GRANDPA" and of course it's usually a parent...

no suggestions but have been in the shower with my DD aged 3 at the gym and she asked 2why do you have hair there Mummy"?

Also the other day a lady walked past and DD said "why does that lady have a fat tummy"?

Also grew up in white farmer country. A childhood friend of mine didn't come up with "Why is that person black?". Oh dearie me no. It was "Look Mummy -- a gorilla!!!". Cue nice liberal parent wishing ground would open and swallow her.

At least we live in a nice culturally and ethnically diverse area so I shouldn't have to go through that with DS.

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splutter! (nearly snorted tea up my left nostril then)

me and my ds where in a little corner shop, queing at the counter when a man came and stood behind us, ds turns round and starts laughing and says really loudly, "look at that man's funny face, mummy" I was dreading turning round and looking at him, luckily it was someone i knew, and he just said "who me, thanks". My ds found him funny, cus he had lot's of piercings.

I love the last one Orinoco - a real classic.

these are hillarious! I used to nanny for 2 children, a biy aged 2 and a girl, aged 4. One day we were in bournemouth just walking down the seafront when a large group of black guys walked past. Daniel, aged 2, piped out 'monkey, monkey...and started pointing at the lads and making monkey noises. Then, when I showed him a pic of my black jamaican boyfriend at the time, he started again!

The girl, Elizabeth (his sister) was just as bad.....waiting for the train one day we saw a rather large lady, and she started asking 'why is that lady so fat, did she eat all the macdonalds and kfc'......

another time, on her first day at school when the kids where all introducing themselves in the classroom, a girl called Toyah, said her name and Elizabeth just burst into laughter. With all the parents and teacher looking at me as if to say 'control her', I managed to settle her down. After school I asked what was so funny, she said because the girl was called Toilet and why was her mummy and daddy so silly to call her Toilet!!!

Took kids to an acquaintance-could be friend for lunch, the kids were given a lovely picnic lunch

DS shouts out 'I'm not eating that, that's BAD cheese' at the cheese-strings (which funnily enough is exactly how I'd described it in the supermarket about 3 months before .. eeek)

Thanks everyone, THis is just what I needed. Having a rotten day with dd, and its only lunch time here. This has given me a good laugh, although I know when its you suffering the embarrasment its not so funny. My dd's best was after using a public loo, shouting very loudly, and proudly "look mummy I've done a sweetcorn poo, look mummy look!!!"... I have to say most of her comments come from my dh who is les than careful about what he says infront of her

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was walking home from school one day with DS in his wheelchair, saw someone that my mum knows very well, and I have known since I was tiny, anyway I was chatting to her when DS pipped up 'when is your baby due?' she said 'I;m not pregnant dear!' and he said 'but you have a fat tummy' [bush] I was so embarrassed...... she laughed and said it was fine......

my charges 2 and 4 know all about organic ('happy') food! and how the 'chickens' have the nicest fields and tastiest chicken food, and how the fruit and veg grow in the really beutiful fields with 'kind' farmers and lots of insects etc!

They also know all about the spraying of crops of non organic foods (due to living close to non organinc farms!)

we get odd looks when i take them shopping and check is this happy milk / chicken / sweetcorn / chocolate etc!

BTW i think its great to teach them young! im sure they will NEVER knowingly eat a battery hen! even at 2!

Sat behind a man on the bus last week who to be totally honest did smell of sh*t so much that people were mmoving away from him - GS loudly proclaimed, whilst pointing - "Pwoar mister poo pooed nappy"

nice bush SM

I know, I realised as soon as I posted it what I'd done

These are hilarious.

A few i get on a regular basis are:

EVERYTIME we go in a public loo dd asks me if i'm going to do a poo or a wee. And on one occasion after i had done a wee, dd looked down the toilet and saw the dirty limescale in the toilet and shouted "well done mummy you have done a poo!" We walked back to our table in the restaurant and said again "you did do a poo mummy well done"

Unfortunately dp explained to dd that the lady on Little Britain is actually a man dressed up as a woman, now whenever dd sees wrinkly old women with whiskers she shreeks "i'm a lady" imitating the character on little britain.

one of my most embarrassing moments was when I was having a shower, DD1 and DD2 came in and DD1 shieked 'mummy you have a hairy bum'.......... they then both laughed and kept saying it, luckily DH was asleep still. I am so glad they didn't saiy it outside though.....