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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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We were sat with a nurse who was going through the result of my daughters nut allergy tests. The nurse said that she was highly allergic to Pistachios at which point my daughter turned to me and said but that isn't a nut mummy isn't it what you offer to your friends when they come to our house. To which I replied no darling that's Pinot Grigio.

We were sat down for a family meal when my dss farted.

We asked him "What was that? Did you fart?" And he replied "Maybe it was the cats... upstairs?"

We laughed so much and it often gets brought up in conversation.

Funniest parenting -
DH: "where's the spare babysuit, he's just been sick"
Me: "I think there's one in the changebag"
[I'm busy, so don't notice him re-dressing baby in day-old, sick-covered outfit from bag]
Me (horrified): "Why have you put him in that?????"
DH: "YOU TOLD ME TO"

Doh??????!!!!!!! WOT?????? Male / female brain communication. Lateral thinking????

Nearing the end of the the longest ever journey home from Spain by double decker coach, we broke down on the motorway on a hot Summer's day. Up on the top deck and sweating profusely, after half an hour of fidgeting and moaning, three year old DS announced he was going to be sick just as he was, all over DH. As he was passed over the aisle he projectile vomited again, all over me. I am eternally grateful to our fellow holidaymakers who sat in that stinking coach for at least another two hours, without lynching us.

Child number 5 has a bit of a reputation for being a bit of a tantrum queen. Grace is well know in Waitrose as she had a tantrum in the middle of the store once and lobbed her welly which landed straight down on the fish counter - Grandad sloped off pretending not to know me leaving me very red faced with a stroppy 1 year old!!

So.. I'd taken my two boys 2 and 3 on a day out with me, my partner, my sister and my mum. We took them to splash Water world and I forgot to bring pull-ups! Wipes and spare clothes. I only took what we needed for swimming. I'm usually such and organised person so I kick my self that I forgot the bag with all there stuff in. Ready to go home though My mum said don't worry they'll be fine we will get the bus to the station and they can use the toilet there if they need to before we catch the bus home. Both my boys had shorts on with no pull-ups. We arrive at stoke bus station and my 3 year old says he had a bad tummy ache, and I said don't worry we will be home soon maybe your just hungry from swimming, and he started to cry and hold his tummy in pain, so I said let's go to the toilet then we will go to the shop, he then got up slowly off my sisters lap and started to walk towards the toilets, next minute he stops dead still and just looked at me! I said what's wrong??? Then I saw it!! POO was dripping on the station floor, I said nooo no no don't poo here, quick let's go toilet, I tried to pick him up and he screamed and said no, and carried on pooing standing up watching his poo hit the floor, before I new it there was a huge pile of poo on the floor! There was hundreds of people staring and laughing and we were right in the middle of the station! I looked down at the floor and it looked like the Poo Emoji had come to life on the floor!! 💩 He finished his poo then looked around and said ' I feel better now mum ' I said well that's good then, trying my hardest not to laugh, my mum and sister come running over and said quick lets get him to the toilet, so I left my poor mum clean his poo up off the station floor with some napkins out the shop that I'd ran in and grabbed while I took him to be cleaned up, I had no spare clothes so I just pulled his t shirt over his bits to cover him up. I just wanted to get him on the bus and get him home. Walking out the toilets and walking past all those people again was so embarrassing, my son must of felt like a celebrity lol. There was young lads taking pictures of the poo on the floor and everything and my mum just about managed to clear it all up and put it in the bin. Iv never felt so relieved to get on a the bus home!... until.. my 3 year old decided he needed a wee 10 minutes after getting on the bus, I said where nearly at the next stop just try hold it, and he turned around and looked at the man behind him, lifted his shorts and started to wee through the gap between the chair onto the man!!! The man burst out laughing to my relief and I said ' omg I'm soo sorry ' he hasn't got his pull-ups on, he said 'ohhh it's ok don't worry, these things happen ', I couldn't believe my son has just weed over a mans leg/foot and all over the bus chair. A few people on the other side of the bus were laughing and we were all trying hard not to laugh. All I can say is my boys definitely left there marks that day, and it really will be a story to tell them when there older

Breast feeding 6 month old in a corner of a quite busy restaurant/pub one afternoon. Had my eye on the TV on the wall and didn't notice a large leather clad hells Angel approaching. In fairness he didn't see baby under the strategically positioned cloth as he leant over the table and shook his charity bucket in front of me full of coins. I jumped at the noise as did baby who also flung his arms, the cloth fell, baby unlatched and the milk shot out literally straight at the mans chest. It was full flow. There are no words to describe the horror on his face when he saw my boob and the milk squirting towards him. He then said argghhhh and looked like he might cry. I was mortified and handed him the closest thing a beer mat which of course was of no use whilst at the same time trying to latch baby back on and fumble for cloth to hide my boob. He then turned and ran. At which point dh came back from bathroom and asked why my face was bright red.

This didn't happen to me, but to my sister in law, but I thought it too funny not to share.

SIL and her DD (then aged 4) were queuing for the till in a cafe when DD piped up: "Mummy? Do you remember how we talked about how we mustn't say things out loud which might hurt other people's feelings?"

"Yes", said my sister in law. "Why?"

"Well, see that lady over there? She's got a HUGE bottom!"

Everyone in the cafe just fell about laughing, including the lady in question, whilst SIL suddenly found the floor of great interest.

My son was about 7 at the time and came home from school one day having apparently learned a few new words. He said.. oww my cock itches ! Hmm.. I sat down and explained that was slang language and not very nice. I said it was perfectly fine to talk about his body but to refer to it as his penis.
Later that evening my brother popped in for a visit and I went to put the kettle on as he was sitting down. My sofa at the time had wooden arms and he caught his back on the wood. Owww he said.. my coccyx !! and I heard my son say in a loud stage whisper.. Don't let Mum hear you say that.. you've got to call it your penis !

For Halloween on our round to " tricks or treats " in the neighbourhood,DD2 skip 1 house and when walking away she said loudly : " Am not knocking on this door as there're 2 naughty boys who lived there and they don't liked me "
Just then i saw the mum by the kitchen window and i was so embarrassed but wasn't sure if she's heard anything or not.
I told off DD2 about her bad behaviour ahead the street.Her reply was : " Mum !!! Today its Halloween and more am dressed as a Devil,so its fine if i'm being naughty for the time being !!! ".
I was like this 🤤🤤🤤 in front of her but behind her back i was like 🤣🤣🤣.
She really made me laugh that night 😁😁😁
But she got real told off afterwards back home.

DD, who was around 18 months at the time, had nappy rash, so we were letting her walk around in her birthday suit. DH had the idea of putting cornflour on her bum to soothe it (in a similar fashion to talc - apparently it's the done thing in Brazil, where he's from).

So there she was, toddling around the flat with her powdery bum when she came to a stop in the kitchen, where the rest of us were congregated, and let out a monumental fart. Pretty funny in its own right (I love a bit of toilet humour) but in addition to the giggle-inducing noise, a large cloud of cornflower exited her adorable backside in a cartoon-like fashion.

DD just stood there with a bemused look on her face (I actually managed to capture the aftermath on camera) whilst my mother, who was visiting, DH and I rolled around the floor in hysterics.

One for her wedding :)

She is getting to that age where I probably embarrass her more

When DS1 was about 3 we were shopping and he wasn't paying attention to where he was walking. He walked straight into a rack of bras and started shouting "help mummy help, the boobie hats have got me". Trying to keep a straight face while untangling him while other shoppers look on with amusment or disgust was difficult.

When my four year old had just learned to read, walking past a particularly large piece of graffiti and hearing her spell out f-u-c...!

Standing at a busy bus stop my little one pointed at an elderly lady and asked" why has the lady got a moustache like daddy?"

Funny, but naughty. I was stood in a shop looking at a display and my 3 year old son was outside in the care of my sister. All of a sudden I noticed that my son had applied the ice-cream end of his cornet to the shop window and was wiping ice-cream onto the widow in big swirly circles! I was both amused and mortified at the same time! No one else in the shop seemed to have noticed at that moment (or my sister!), so I rushed out and we moved on swiftly.

Took my for year old nephew to a family fun day with work.firstly he tries the wall climbing,get one foothold up then says loudly "I'm not as clever as I thought I was,can you get me down please".Duly placed back on the ground undeterred he marches off to the bucking Broncos.the controller let's him sit on top then switches the bronco(it was a bull)to a very slow speed but it was sufficient to have my nether chucked off onto the the grass.very indignantly he get to his feet,crossly kicks the bull and shouts to the controller'you should teach your bull some member'sthe guy and crowd were in stitches.

DD and I were in the supermarket when she was about 3 yrs old and we were at the check out. Suddenly she started shouting 'look at the little man, mummy, look at him he's so tiny' so I turned to see what she was staring at. So, just a man of ordinary stature stood in the queue in front of me, maybe 5'8 and certainly not warranting the excited shouting that was getting louder every time she repeated it

Needless to say I smiled sweetly and distracted her by committing the carnal sin of offering checkout sweets!

In a restaurant with DS that is 3, another table was talking very loudly & it was annoying. DS says ‘they need their indoor voices & to stop talking rubbish’ he was right 🙊

DD1 is nearly three and this year is the first time she understands the whole Santa/naughty list thing. She was playing up yesterday so we reminded her that Santa doesn’t bring presents for naughty children. I asked her if she was going to behave better. She said, in a very dramatic, mournful way, “No, I’m going to look out of the window and cry!”

After telling my DS that eating too many sweet things would make him fat, a few minutes later upon seeing a rather rotund man sitting nearby in cafe announced that said man had been eating too much ice cream. Think people in next shop heard him too

I was back in work when my daughter was potty training. I picked her up from nursery after work one afternoon and we were walking home. She said she really needed to go to the toilet and we were ages from any toilet. We were on a main road and I really didn't want her to wet herself when she was doing so well so I turned my back to the main road and hoisted her over the grass. As it turned out, it wasn't a number one that she wanted.

Who knows why but when DS was a musical 2 year old, he consistently referred to a guitar as a "cuntar"

my son has problems with saying "s" sounds, they come out as "d" sounds instead. his favourite book is the stick man! so he regularly runs about especially in public places shouting "dick man dick man" ... embarrassing!!!

My daughter poking my butt cheek: "Is this your bum, mummy?" "Yes, DD.". Poking the other one: "Is THIS your bum?" "Yes." "Why have you got two bums?"