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!

[VoluptuaSneezelips]

Overheard in a park.
Kid about 5-6 years old: 'Mum why do the trees have numbers on them.'
Mum: 'Well they like to get up and go for walks in the night so the gardeners put those tags on them so they can check in the morning that they all came back safe.'

[Beline4u]

@VoluptuaSneezelips parenting at it's best right there!! How lovely 😀

[BikeRunSki]

We live very close to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which has fabulous permanent and visiting exhibits. My dc have grown up running around the park, and have a precocious appreciation of modern art. When DS was 4, we had the following conversation.

Nursery nurse: Good morning Bike’sDS, fix you have a good week end?
DS: We went to the Sculpture Park yesterday
NN: was it fun?
DS: There’s new sculptures. I think I preferred the Shonibare to the Miro.

[Inmyownlittlecorner]

DD1 was in reception and was having a friend over for tea after school on Election Day. I told them both that we would go & vote before we went home. I picked them up and they were both really excited about “going voting”, I was feeling fabulous because I’d clearly installed a sense of democracy in, not only my 5 year old, but her friend as well. We got to the polling station, I voted, we all got a sticker & head home. Both children are giddy with excitement, I am smug and full of self importance:
DD “where is it?”
Me “where’s what?”
DD “the boat”
Me”what boat?”
DD “THE boat. You said we were going boating. Where is it?”
That was quite a big fall from my high horse!

[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.

[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.'

[BikeRunSki]

What sophisticatedpretentious children we have @Lochmorlich! 😂

[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.

[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!

[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

[Ginflinger]

@foreverold

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

Brilliant!

[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!

[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” 🤣

[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...

[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

[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

[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"

[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.

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

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

[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!

[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.

[rosegoldivy]

Shamelessly placemarking

[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"
😂

[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!

[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!