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It’s no secret that children of all ages - from babies to teenagers - can do and say some hilarious things, (whether they mean to or not!) But sometimes it’s parents that have their own hilarious moments and it may be children’s reactions that make it even more humorous. With that in mind Arla Big Milk want to know some of your funniest parenting moments!

Have you ever had to quickly cover for your child’s unfiltered comments whilst out in public? Perhaps you’ve turned your back for one minute at dinner time and come back to find your child has decided to put the food over their head rather than in their mouth? Or maybe you’ve had to tell them off for something that is in fact hilarious and you just can’t keep a straight face?

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When your four year old somehow picks up the word 'bum'...and you don't learn this until he shouts it out in a shop!

Took two year old to London on the train, he was talking to an elderly lady sat opposite him. He then farted, loudly and proceeded to tell her he had. She didn't hear him luckily and I had to make up that he was asking if she'd like some of his satsuma.

DD2 has never had any kind of verbal filter.

Aged 4 at the zoo, she was running her fingers along the glass and penguins were swimming under water following her hand. DD1 went to put her hand on the glass and DD2 turned to her and shouted 'Get your own penguin!! I'm steering this one!'.

Aged 5 in a café, in that top volume voice, she points at a table with 4 ladies all sat around having a cuppa and asks 'Mum? Why do all those grannies have the same hair?'

I used to wash her hair using a plastic jug as she was terrified of the shower. On a couple of occasions I bumped her head with it. The last time she turned to me and said very sternly 'That's the third time you've done that. Make sure you don't do it again!'.

Her 12th birthday was recently and we had gone into town with one of her friends and were looking for somewhere to go and eat. One café looked lovely and DP and I were looking at the menu in the window. The café door was open and unfortunately DD decided to announce very loudly 'this place only has a four star food rating - we aren't eating in there!'.

(She has autism before anyone say's she's gobby. We know she is gobby, to be honest it's part of her charm)

After seeing a very large guy with a big beard in the supermarket, DD says loudly, 'Mum is it Christmas already? Look, there's Santa Claus!'

The guy in question looked very amused and seemed like he was trying to keep himself from laughing.

DD then says, 'Santa Claus, I'm on the nice list this year right? I want so many things this year'
She then proceeded to list more than 10 items.

We both couldn't stop ourselves from laughing after that!

My DS was visiting his aunts and uncles at the family house and their neighbor is called the same name as a girl who goes to his school. Blew hes mind bless him.

At Disneyland Paris, when she asked me, as we were getting Belle's autograph, 'can I show Belle my knickers?' - they were disney princess ones, with belle on them

My ds, three, sometimes comes out with 'parenting' one-liners that he's obviously heard me say. It's hilarious listening to him telling his toys "If you keep doing that, you'll be sorry", "Oh no you don't!" "What did I just say?!" Etc etc

My daughter likes to shout ‘mummy are you doing a poo’ when we’re in public toilets. It seems other toilet users find this funny...

When both DCs were little, they used to love bath time and would happily play in the bath for ages. While they were in the bath, I would potter about getting things ready for bedtime, with the bathroom door open, so I could keep any eye on them.

I noticed that DS had got out of the bath, so I popped in to see what he was up to. He was looking a bit sheepish, which wasn't all that surprising as he had his hand in the bowl of the toilet. I asked him what he was doing & he said he was trying to flush his vest down the toilet. I enquired as to why he might be doing that & he said that all the dirty loo paper got flushed away and clean paper kept appearing, so he thought that if dirty clothes were flushed away, then they'd reappear clean too!

I fished out the vest, got both DCs dry and took them downstairs to show them the miracle that is the washing machine!

I went into a service station a couple of years ago to buy a map as we were in a mobile dead zone. My lovely 4 year old marched up to the man behind the till and told him, "Mummy, needs 'rections to put her on the right path." Cue my mumbled explanation of needing DIrections to get on the right route, DIrections!

My son wanted to go to school in fancy dress, and we decided on a Pirates of the Caribbean theme. On the bus back from town with the outfit in my bag, he sat with his fingers dangling from his chin and announced 'to you love my beard of testicles ?' - he meant tentacles. Red faced we left the bus.

My two got up early and decided to ‘help’ by doing the washing up. The eldest was stood on a chair wearing my red rubber gloves with a very wet and soapy kitchen and younger brother drying up.

When my son was about 3 we were in a next changing room and he pulled a curtain right open and the woman had no knickers on! I was mortified and couldnt apologise enough 😳

My eldest daughter said to another Mum at school ... why is your face dirty and your hair looks like its not been brushed . I almost died !!! i said oh its becuase its windy and she has freckles which i think the other Mum bought

I was driving along when sunlight caught the hairs on my year olds legs whilst in her car seat, she started shouting "Feathers. WHY have I got feathers on my legs. I DON'T WANT TO BE A CHICKEN!! Made me cry laughing.

We were in a toilet at chessington world of adventure when my four year old son says out of the blue 'mummy we are happy arent we, because we have the happiness inside us but daddy doesnt does he? I replied ' no he is grumpy' 😄😄

I was struggling to keep a straight face (and be the stern parent), when my youngest (then 5) told me that grandma was responsible for the felt tip drawings on the carpet!

Then 3 year old DD, in a flimsy poolside bamboo toilet block with me whilst I went to the loo. DD in a very loud excited svoice “mummy, mummy, why do you have spiders in your knickers” “oh no, you need to do something about that”

My LO was having a strop recently - I explained I would be happy to talk to him when he had calmed down & was prepared to stop shouting & be nice.
He sat stewing for a few minutes & then said (with some venom) ' You... You.. You.. not-listenener!!' I couldn't help but have a little chortle to myself!

My little boy decided to tell his teacher that daddy dresses up in mum's clothes! My hubby wore my dressing gown once !

My DD used to chant "Boobies" when I was breast feeding my DS. Always funny in public places when I was trying to be discreet.

Ok, this one is still quite recent and I'm not over the embarrassment BUT we were in a crowded queue and there was an elderly man with a long white beard stood nearby. My toddler spotted him, pointed and yelled 'Look mummy, a funny gnome!'.
I was mortified, and have no idea where his fixation with gnomes has come from!

When ds was about 5 he wanted to know where babies cam from. Fine, we talked about it. Then he wanted to know what 'two ladies who loved each other' would do to make a baby. Fine, I explained.
Unfortunatly he then proceeded to ask Very Loudly at softplay 'those ladies over there, do you think they asked a friend to give them the seeds, or did the doctor get them some' about every set of friends sitting together...

Walking round the supermarket with DD in trolley, she started singing By the Rivers of Babylon to a vicar.

She crayoned all over the flatscreen TV twice and covered a cream pouffe in green permanent marker.

My mum cooked my 7 year old son chicken nuggets and chips for dinner while we were at their house. My son pushed a nugget around his plate, and then looked at my mum and said "have you ever had food poisoning before?" before declaring he wasn't going to eat the nuggets, only the chips!! Luckily my Mum found it hilarious!