Whats the best quote you have heard from a parent in passing?

[Backtoreality1]

Had a lovely one yesterday....family were in their back garden but mum could be heard from the front in total exasperation saying ' xxxx, you are getting on my last nerve today'. Wasn't said with aggression just a clear voice with the tone of someone who was getting so tired. I wanted to go and give her a hug and I have never met her!

[gabsdot45]

I live in quite a multicultural area of Dublin so hearing people speaking different languages is not unusual. i'm quite good at identifying what language it is..
One day I was in the playground with my kids and heard a mother speaking to her child in a language I didn't recognise at all.
Eventually I realised it was Irish. LOL So much for learning it in school for 14 years

[stressbandit]

@vampirethriller love this one

[Hippee]

Felyne - sorry, only just seen your comment! Not Surrey, would have been Cambridge.

[NeverDropYourMoonCup]

Bus journey, a new reader or had just learned that pub names have meanings, aged about 5/6.


'Mummy, why's that one called the Cricketers?' 'Because there's a place where they play cricket nearby' 'Mummy, what's the one round the corner called? Why -' 'Because it is by the old post office and train station'

This went on for ages until stuck in traffic. Mummy was beginning to sound a little tired.

'Mummy, that one says the something Eagle'. 'That's right'


'Mummy, why's that one called the Ship?' 'Because they like pirates, I think'


'THE GREEN DRAGON. Does a dragon live there? Is that why they've called it that?'


'Well, there's a painting of a green dragon downstairs, so maybe'



'Black. Sheep. Mummy, why -'


'I suppose they've got to feed the Green Dragon somehow'.

[CurryLover55]

Mine isn’t funny - I hate hearing parents threatening to leave their kids behind if they refuse to comply. Have those adults any idea how frightening that must be to a young child? Or worse, threatening to call the police or take them to hospital! When I was a Nanny, the Mum I worked for ( who was mostly lovely) used to threaten my 3 year old charge with someone called “ Beryl”. I’ll never forget how the little one turned the tables once. Her Mum was telling her off & she wailed “ I want Beryl”! I silently cheered!

[RagzReturnsRebooted]

Not parent, but small child.
Listening to my neice and nephews playing, neice (4) says to her cousin
"have you ever eated a person?"
Small nephew "no!"
Neice "have you ever eated a person that you loved?"

I pissed myself laughing and had to tell my sister how dark her daughter is!

[AlliPalli13]

Many years ago, my son must have been about 4 years old.
After being told 'NO' loads of times, finally said "What part of NO don't you understand!?"
Quick as a flash, he said "the N"
😂

[rosegoldivy]

Shamelessly placemarking

[WithRosesAroundTheDoor]

@2020Diary

A story I read in a patenting magazine when my DC were small:

A mother was trying to minimise the embarrassment caused by her young daughter's vocal curiosity about anyone who looked slightly different. So she told her daughter that if she saw someone she wanted to ask about to keep it all in her head and they could talk about it when they got home.

One day a rather large lady got onto the bus they were on and the DD piped up with:

"Look at that lady Mummy we can talk about her when we get home"

Mine did exactly that to me about a larger gentleman in the park.

[IHateCoronavirus]

Busy doing some gardening when I heard the child next door shout “I’m taking mummy’s knickers down!” I peeped over the fence to see next doors DC stood on the raised patio helping her Dad to take the washing off the line!

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

At a birthday party in Norwich's Golden Triangle: "God, these children are middle class, they've eaten all the cornichons."

[MyGorramShip]

One said by me at a family BBQ years ago that is still famous in the family

“Can you please hide the cheese grater from Middle Child because she keeps trying to grate her own skin”

My middle child is really fucking strange at times, she was about 4/5 at the time.

[2020Diary]

A story I read in a patenting magazine when my DC were small:

A mother was trying to minimise the embarrassment caused by her young daughter's vocal curiosity about anyone who looked slightly different. So she told her daughter that if she saw someone she wanted to ask about to keep it all in her head and they could talk about it when they got home.

One day a rather large lady got onto the bus they were on and the DD piped up with:

"Look at that lady Mummy we can talk about her when we get home"

[shouldistop]

Overheard today in the street. Parent is walking a reluctant small child briskly up the hill, encouraging him by bellowing a rousing chorus of “we all live in a yellow submarine, a YELLOW SUBMARINE, a YELLOW SUBMARINE “

As the parent pauses for breath, a tiny voice pipes up “it’s stupid though, I don’t wanna live there” 🤣🤣

Love your timing, kid!

Oh god, that might have been me

[scarredhere]

@Icantrememebrtheartist

“Make sure you’ve got clean knickers on incase you get run over” Was often said by my mum.

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My mum always said the same thing and also make sure I shave my legs and vag before any journey in case they get confused and label me as a male in the morgue

[PomBearWithoutHerOFRS]

I don't know if anyone (other than the teacher) overheard me, but on the last day of term, when no3son was about seven or eight, we were presented with the lovingly decorated Christmas pine cone at pick up.
DS had done a particularly elongated cone, and without thinking, I said "come on then, get Mr. Hankey"
Teacher sort of snorted which alerted me that I said it aloud...

[MessedOfTimes]

Heard this one today from a parent re their child: “I’ll force him to be a vegetarian before he gets any of my damn sausage roll” 🤣

[IHaveBrilloHair]

V posh woman in the Dr's said to her Dd who must have been about 5 "No Agnes you can't do a poo poo on the floor here"

Thank God I was on my own, I was stifling laughter as it was, if I'd been with a friend we have been ending ourselves.
In all honesty the Agnes was enough!

[Ginflinger]

@foreverold

I thought you meant a passed down thread through generations told to you by your parents

Brilliant!

[MessedOfTimes]

Mum: we’re just going for a little drive so I don’t go crazy.

Seven year old: I want you to go crazy.

Mum: you don’t wanna see that. It ain’t pretty.

Four year old: yeah, you will hit your own head and fall on the table

[user1488481370]

I remember over hearing a conversation between a little girl and teenage boy at Alnwick market, years ago now. Little girl turned to the boy and said ‘my sister doesn’t really like you, she just feels sorry for you because you live in a caravan.’

Always tickles me when I think about it!

[HebeMumsnet]

Morning, everyone! We've had a few nominations for this thread to be moved to Classics, so we've shifted it over there now.

[BikeRunSki]

What sophisticatedpretentious children we have @Lochmorlich! 😂

[Lochmorlich]

@BikeRunSki your post reminded me of dd age 4.
We got a last minute weekend at a hotel including dinner.
The cuisine was not to ds's (11) taste and he reluctantly asked the waiter for turkey as there were no burgers.
Dd, 4, much more sophisticated, piped up.
'I'll have the salmon please but I'll need a wedge of lemon with it.'

[WeatherwaxOn]

Bandied about in my household during childhood:
Why don't you look out of the window, feet first?
Oh, go and play in th traffic.
You should take a long walk off a short pier.