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I can't believe this has just happened. Please share your embarrassing young child/public situation nightmares.

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PirateJelly · 17/08/2013 10:55

Still cringing at this as I type this Blush sorry it's so long.

I suspected I had pulled my neck again last nite while bringing the washing in Hmm and woke up this morning in agony and really didn't relish the idea of a whole weekend spent being unable to move my neck Sad and an ever increasing annoying child to look after alone. Anyway rang my Doctors and was told to come in for 8.30 as they have a drop in surgery on Saturdays.

Just as we are about to leave DS (just 4) manages to wee all over his favorite spiderman pants and joggers while in the toilet. He then refused to wear any other pants or trousers. I was getting increasingly annoyed and frustrated and just told him to get himself dressed and wear what he wants as were in a rush. So off we go to the surgery with DS wearing only thin shorts (no pants) a chuggington t-shirt two sizes too small and his new school plimsoles. Honestly he looked such a sight that was embarrassing enough but I was in too much
pain to care.

Get to the Doctors, which was as expected extremely busy give my name etc and as soon as we sit down DS announces loudly he now needs a poo. So off we go to the toilet. As we come out DS bellows "I miss that pop mummy, it was my favorite pop ever" to which I mutter " you what?" Hmm " yeah it reminded me of Reggie (our dog Hmm) did you see it mummy it had eyes" he said sadly. Que him then tugging on my arm while I waited for another seat and repeating 100 times in an irratating, whiney voice "I really do miss that pop mummy" untill finally I snapped "ALRIGHT I GET IT!" to which a waiting room full of people all look up at me.

Finally get a seat and sit DS on my lap, he then proceeds to ask me every question which could ever enter a small boys head, along the lines of why do we get poorly, do mummys have boys and daddies have girls, why is that lady old, why is that boy fat? on and on with me growing more and more irritated and DS's bored at the waiting audience growing more and more interested Blush.

Eventually a few more seats become free and DS decides to go sit it a free tub chair about 5 seats away. Picks up a Cbeebies magazine and sits quietly for all of ooh 2 minutes before letting out a very loud sigh and loudly saying "I do like my willy mummy it's much better than flaps isn't it?" a few people start smirking, the elderly lady next to him looks uncomfortable, so I gave him the 'look' and he goes back to looking at his magazine on his lap. I admit I wasnt paying him a lot of attention as it hurt just to turn my head to look at him, so I carried on looking at my phone.

I noticed a slightly gazed look in his eyes but tbh was just glad he was being quiet. All of a sudden he loudly announces "Mummy, my willy's gone all hard" I shushed him and asked quietly did he need a wee? "No mummy, I've been pulling on it and now it's like sword" no exaggeration every pair of eyes in the room was on me and I thought I'm gonna go mad here in a minute. DS sensing my annoyance decided to try and tip me over the edge and started laughing and singing "willy, willy, willy, hard, hard, hard" "smelly mummy, stupid mummy,yes, yes, yes" I thought I'm going to have to take him outside and have a word but felt in a difficult postion as although the cheekiness wouldn't be tolerated I didn't really want to punish him for touching himself but needed to explain it wasn't appropriate in a Doctors waiting room full of people!

Just as I was gathering up my things, finally my name was called, so I sharply told DS to come along and as he jumped down from the chair a small boy sizes semi on could clearly be seen through his shorts. DS thought this was hysterical and as a finally to his shocked audience decided to do a silly walk including hip thrusts out of the room Blush Shock

By the time we finally made it to the Doctor his shorts area was back to normal but I most certainly was not. I think a combination of the embarrassment, pain and strong pain killers I had taken finally took it's tole and I came over all funny, so much so the Doctors thought I was going to faint! Luckily he took sympathy on me and prescribed me some diazepam, without which I honestly think I would have strangled DS. When we got outside I told him don't EVER behave like that again to which he relied innocently "What mummy?"

Please tell me I'm not the only one with a child like this? And how can I prevent an incident like that ever happening again? (except never leaving the house or having to constantly main line Valium Confused

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YouJustMetTheAlphaParent · 17/08/2013 16:01

I have tears of laughter and if I had been in the doctors surgery I would have been laughing my socks off out loud Grin

Chibbs · 17/08/2013 16:06

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YoungGirlGrowingOld · 17/08/2013 16:17

Not one of my own kids, but a few years ago my niece came to stay with me and DP for the weekend for the first time - she must have been 5 or 6. My sister was away with her DH. I hadn't much experience with kids and thought it went rather well!

Anyway, next time I see my sister she is in stitches and shows me my DN's English book.She was asked to write about her weekend and she had written "I stayed with Auntie YoungGirl. Auntie YoungGirl likes wine. Uncle YoungGirl likes Poker." She had even drawn pictures of us drinking and playing cards.

I SWEAR that the poor child had NOT spent 48 hours with 2 wino's in a gambling den..... Blush

WaitingForMe · 17/08/2013 16:17

When DSS2 was being potty trained he weed in his potty just as the Avon lady arrived. DH amazingly caught the full potty that he was running with to show her. She looked at us in absolute horror.

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 17/08/2013 16:42

I have a friend with a ds like this who is a bit of a little sod handful. Apparently she has chosen to explain sex to him. She is pregnant and wanted him to know exactly how it happened. With pictures.

He is 4. I am not looking forward to future play dates.

IceNoSlice · 17/08/2013 16:45

Ha ha ha ha thank you, made my day Grin

Dontlookbehindyou · 17/08/2013 21:22

So when my ds (just turned 2) has a tantrum and lays down on te floor quietly for about 1 min than gets up, it's going to get much worse isn't it? Lol

Slightly off topic, on the subject of willies, when do they stop getting random erections? Ds got them when he was tiny and I assumed he'd grow out of it but he still gets them? I never thought little boys did and it weirds me out lol

Mhw02 · 17/08/2013 21:38

This example is me being the embarrassing child, and was childish innocence rather than misbehaviour, but I think it's relevant...

I remember once as a four year old my mum took me swimming. I was only just learning to read and recognise letters. I was in the changing cubicle with my mum and was staring at all the graffiti on the wall of the changing room, trying to decipher it. I saw one word that I thought I recognised - LUCK, but the first letter didn't really look like an L, it looked more like an F. I stood there for a minute pondering this - L made more sense, as luck was an actual word; if the letter was an F, well, why would someone be writing a made up word on the wall? Or could it be a new word that I hadn't learnt yet? Or a spelling mistake, maybe? So I decided to ask my mum. I opened my mouth and said in a loud, clear voice 'Mummy, does that say luck or f*?'.

Mum was horrified, and said hurriedly, 'it says "f", but that's a very bad word and you mustn't ever say it again.' Cue me all the way into the swimming pool, 'but what does f mean, Mummy? Why is it a bad word? Why did someone write f* if it's naughty?' I always did have a loud, clear voice. I never did get a response.

somewherewest · 17/08/2013 21:42

10mo DS pulling down a friend's top in search of some breast was our biggest low point so far. He's only 20mo now so I'm sure there's plenty more to come

HungryGeorge · 17/08/2013 22:21

When my DD was about 2 and a half (she's 23 now) we were in the supermarket, I was paying for a few bits at the kiosk bit and she was toddling around.. she got in an old lady's way, stood in front of her, hands on hips and said "hahahaha! I blocked you in you bastard!"

Turnipvontrapp · 17/08/2013 22:37

Very funny and so glad am not the only one! My DS asked me very loudly in a swimming pool changing room why I had a hairy willy (I haven't by the way - am definitely a woman!) The more I tried to shush him, the louder he got.

Now it's his standard question to me (with a grin on his face) every public toilet we are in Blush

MrsMc82 · 17/08/2013 22:39

Hahaha! This is ace! "It's like a sword!!!" even dh laughed at this......
ds is 3.5 and increasingly interested in playing with his willy so also read in fear too!
Classic story tho - hope the diazapam worked and neckis better...

MollySJ · 17/08/2013 22:44

So good!

WrongendoftheSTIX · 17/08/2013 22:52

This thread is amazing!

ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 17/08/2013 22:57

Hahaha. These are brilliant. Ds isn't verbal enough to embarrass me like this yet but I managed it myself the other day...

He loves tractors but can't quite say it properly so when I left for work the other day and saw one coming down the road I used his words and shouted "look! Twat twat!" back to the house. Oh the shame Blush

Nagoo · 17/08/2013 22:58

Oh yes, the toilet commentary. thought my DC were bad, then on holiday I overheard a small D: 'Mummy have you shit in your knickers?'.

ViviDeBeauvoir · 17/08/2013 23:00

Your story is brilliant OP!

Nowhere near as entertaining but tickled me:

I took DD to the toilet in a department store and it was very busy so we both squeezed into a cubicle. After I'd finished in her loudest voice ever she said 'shall I wipe your bottom for you?'. I told her it was ok and I'd do it myself but she kept on and on 'it's ok, mummy, I'll do it for you' which made it sound like this was the norm in our house! Hmm Grin

WLmum · 17/08/2013 23:12

On a recent camping trip af decided to make an appearance having been absent for the last 18 months due to dd3. Dd1&2 are obsessed, ask me lots of loud questions everytime we go to the loo or shower. Dd1 wants to see where the moon cup goes and despite my trying to skirt over it, squats down to get a good look. Then asks why I have a hole and comment that its quite a big hole isn't it?! Honestly child, just shush.

ViviDeBeauvoir · 17/08/2013 23:13

Another one courtesy of DD:

She picked up the word 'fuck' from nursery and had been telling her little brother to 'fuck off' over and over again. I explained that this wasn't a nice thing to say and left it at that.
On the bus home she started to talk loudly about it saying 'I mustn't say fuck off to DB, must I?' 'Fuck off isn't a nice thing to say' 'I won't tell DB to fuck off' etc.
I was mortified and cracking up with laughter at the same time!

IThinkOfHappyWhenIThinkOfYou · 17/08/2013 23:14

DD1 had a marvellous rummage through the novelty condom stand on the checkout in a tourist tat shop in London a few weeks ago.

IsaacCox · 17/08/2013 23:36

I needed cheering up and this thread has more than done the trick Grin

PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 18/08/2013 00:04

DS2 has started talking to us in a similar voice to how his teacher reads stories to the class.

Today's rendition ( after seeing DH in the bath) was, "A biiiig willy, A strooong willy, A faaat willy"

Grin.

pictish · 18/08/2013 00:09

I heard a great story about a little girl that someone knew in nursery.

She said to the teacher "I've shat myself".
The teacher, astonished by her language said "pardon??!"
The girl replied " I SAID...I'VE SHAT MYSELF!"

afromom · 18/08/2013 00:32

Piratejelly that is hilarious! I'm sure I would have died if embarrassment in your situation too though!

My DS's less finer moment was at Nursery (luckily they knew me well and took what he said with a pinch if salt, but I did have some explaining to do!). I walked in to pick him up from nursery one day when he was nearly 3. All of the staff were smirking at me, and then his key worker came out with "DS has been enlightening us at the tea table with some interesting tales!" I was Confused "what has he said now?" Apparently he had been sat at the tea table, everyone happily munching away and suddenly said "my mum walks around the house with no clothes on and the other day my dad was in the shower and his willy is really big! He let me touch it!" Just to reassure you DH didn't "let him" touch his penis, DS saw it and made a lunge for it, followed by an almighty shriek from DH, cue me running in and finding DS trying to grab at Dh's penis laughing his head off! Still not sure why he brought me into it though!

Julygal · 18/08/2013 01:35

We were in the busy communal changing rooms at centerparcs once when DD1 (then 2) asked me continually why I had blue string between my legs, despite the continual shush from me! Blush

Just this week on holiday with pil's. FIL (Irish catholic) yelled Jesus Christ when DH went round a corner particularly fast. DD2 (7) mimicked him and shouted "Jesus!" When I admonished her on this she replied "but I like Jesus". Cue tears of laughter from me and MIL, then real tears from sensitive DD2 as she thought we were laughing at her, rather than her comedy!

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