Teens are often embarrassed by their parents leaving notes in their lunchboxes and sharing baby photos with their current crush. “Moooom, stop!” But little do they know, their parents learned from the best. Because when these kids were younger, they were wreaking havoc on Mom and Dad, humiliating them everywhere they went…
Below, you’ll find some hilarious stories that parents have shared on Reddit, detailing the most embarrassing things their kids have ever said and done in public. So enjoy scrolling through these silly tales, and keep reading to find a conversation with mom and parenting expert, Dayna Abraham!
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My daughter screamed 'SERIOUSLY?' in church when they made the congregation stand one too many times for her liking. She’s nine.
Give that kid a medal for saying out loud what we all think about sometimes! :))
A question... If we are expected to accept freedom of choice, should religion not be inclusive? There are a lot of people who find solace and structure in their beliefs, without it influencing other. What do we need to find harm in that? Obviously I am not talking about cults and extreme fanatics.
Thank you for saying this. I can't agree more. These days we are all expected to accept so many things, even if they make no sense to us. But the people expecting to be embraced for these differences are also not willing to embrace what they don't understand and condemn us for embracing our own truths. Again, thank you for being able to verbalize this.
Load More Replies...Me as a child enduring another Catholic Sunday service. (Except I did it in my head because I was terrified of my mom) LOL
My ex took my son, 6, to 7pm mass. On Easter Saturday. With the whole "stations of the cross" procession. Then was dumbfounded that he never wanted to go back again.
Load More Replies...My daughter, who was forced to go to Church by a very religious catholic family member, spat the cracker out and made a disgusted noise. I will always wonder what that relative was thinking. You cannot just receive communion in catholicism. I am an atheist and I know that. Yet, even the priest, who got really mad, didn't seem to have registered that my daughter was 5 and she couldn't possibly have gone through catechism and all that jazz. My religious relatives did a much better job I ever could do to turn my daughter against religion.
Very different experience to my church the first time I took my best friend there on a communion day. She refused to take it, because she wasn't a confirmed member of the church (which is the requirement where she went) and I was confused because everyone is welcome to take it if they want.
Load More Replies...Not my anecdote, but too good to not share. Mom (whispering): "Thomas! Get your hand out of your pants!" 7-year-old Thomas (also whispering): "Nooo!" Mom (whispering louder): "Thomas! NOW!" Thomas (also whispering louder): "Mooom, noooo!" Mom (shout-whispering): "Thomas! We. Are. In. CHURCH!" Thomas (at full volume): "Mom! I'm TRYING to make my penis hard!"
You can find the answer in the bible, young lady, Romans 11:33: Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways!
That sounds like a really convoluted way to say "Because f*ck you, that's why"
Load More Replies...I highly doubt the parents regretted having her based on this incident. BP seems to want depopulation of the Western world badly.
I had just gone to the bathroom after a big pork chop dinner at a nice restaurant. The stench was heavy on the air, but there was nothing I could do about it. The pork chops had cleared out the pipes.
As I came out of the stall, a father and his young son came in and the kid shouts, “Holy cow! What the hell died in here? It stinks!”
Then he makes eye contact with me in the mirror as I’m washing my hands, points, and goes “Was that YOU? Yuck!!!”
I’m not easily embarrassed, and I laughed, but I have to admit, this kid had nailed me to the wall, and I *was* a little embarrassed. His dad seemed to notice that, and goes, without missing a beat, “Yeah, well Josh. When you take a c**p it doesn’t exactly smell like flowers either.“
Wherever that guy is, I salute you. Dads of the world unite.
The perfect ending would be the dad making his son use the stall that had just been turd-nuked.
Once in Disneyland, I could hear a father in the next stall talking his small child through the process ("Do you need to go a little more? Okay, now let's wipe you up"). Suddenly, father's voice gets more frantic, almost yelling "No! No! Don't touch that with your penis!". So I agree, fathers of the world, you're kind of amazing what you face...and, good luck
This makes me feel better from having to stay home from school due to an unruly stomach and sphincter
I have IBS so veer between constipated or the other way. I like to spread the joy between the 3 toilets in my building...
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My 3 year old was singing about dinosaurs loudly at the grocery store and I told her I loved her singing, but asked her to please use her inside voice. She randomly came out with "Im sorry mommy! Please dont lock me in the closet!" And a whole bunch of people turned to look at me. I've never once locked her in a closet! Theres no room in our closet even if I wanted to!
I took my 8 year old daughter to a little shop in town that was a reconverted old house. Lots of cool things there. Except for a few employees and a couple of other shoppers, it was pretty empty. Daughter had to use the bathroom and an employee explained that it was in the women's clothing/jewelry area. While waiting I was looking at earrings on a turning display. Found a pretty pair and was holding them. Daughter came out of the bathroom, sees me and yells "Oh my GOSH, are you STEALING those????". I have never shoplifted or stolen anything. I was mortified but didn't want to leave for fear they'd think I was in fact stealing something. The handful of people there kept staring at me and an employee discretely followed me around the store after that. I wound up buying the earrings and something else just to look legit. I have never forgotten the embarrassment and now, as an adult, she thinks it's absolutely hilarious. She really did think I was stealing the earrings.
Kid in the late '60's here. Back when people smoked everywhere and dads didn't usually grocery shop. Dad and his adorable 5 yo daughter are cruising the grocery store, him smoking, and he says, jokingly, hold out your hand. Dad was quite the dark comedian. I collapsed to the floor crying "No daddy, please don't burn me again". Emphasis on again. Child protection services was not called but my Dad learned I was as quick witted and mean spirited as he was
For the really good stares, try "Of course not, honey! There's food in the closet and you certainly are not going to have that!"
I thought it said "doom-laughed way too hard at this" and heard a loud, bellowing MU-WA-HAHAHAHAHA in my head
Load More Replies...To gain more insight on this topic, we reached out to mom, author and founder of the popular parenting website Lemon Lime Adventures, Dayna Abraham. Dayna was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda, jokingly noting that it might be easier to count how often her kids don't embarrass her, rather than how often they do.
"I remember when my oldest (now 18) was three, we were in Bed Bath & Beyond, and he didn't know what something was," Dayna shared. "So at the top of this lungs he shouted, 'What the f*ck!' Because earlier in the week when I heard him say this when he stepped in water, I had said, 'Oh, I think you mean: What's this? What's happened?'"
We were at my daughters choir performance, sitting dead center in the front row. Right before the performance starts, as the entire room is dead silent and the choir director is lifting her arms, my seven year old rips the LOUDEST fart. Without missing a beat, he yells “Mom! Why did you fart?”.
I wanted to melt into the gym floor. All I could do was stare forward with my cheeks on fire.
her cheeks were on fire? I bet she was the one that farted after all ;)
One time in church my wife had fed our 3 month old daughter a bottle and was patting her gently on her back during a moment of deathly silent meditation... it was that moment little Yvette demonstrated a new skill and released the loudest belch I have EVER heard from an infant. Of course the accoustics of the church really helped to exaggerate its sound... all eyes turned to me sitting on the other end of the pew, I could only reply "what... it was the kid... " and thankfully just as I said that she let another one rip... After mass on the way out of church we stopped to say hello to the priest and without missing a beat father Conway looks at me and says "I can see where she gets her talents from"
When my daughter was 2, we went on a long flight. At one point, a flight attendant was near, and my daughter looked up and said, "Piece of a*s!" The flight attendant gave me (father) the worst look! Like, I think she assumed that my daughter was repeating something that she had heard me say.
What I knew, however, was that my daughter had a bit of a funny accent when pronouncing certain words, and I explained to the flight attendant, "She would like a piece of *ice*. Ice."
I don't think she believed me, but she put some ice in a cup and handed it to my daughter who happily looked at it and said, "A*s! A*s!" At that, the flight attendant stated laughing and forgave me.
I bet the father winked at the daughter after the flight attendant left, but doesn't want to admit i! :))
I saw an interview with Reba McIntyre about her TV show, where she admitted that was one word they often had to do retakes for, because her accent made it come out sounding like that, too.
I love Reba and as a fellow Okie I approve this message. 😁
Load More Replies...My daughter’s first word was sh*t. I was watching a football game and my team missed a field goal and not thinking, I said, “Sh*t!” My daughter repeated it. I was so happy she said her first word but bummed by what it was. I didn’t say anything to her father who I was married to at the time. He would swear a lot more than I did. I started watching what I said after that. As soon as he said the word and she repeated it, I looked at him and I said, “Look what you are teaching your daughter!” 😂 To this day he thinks he helped teach our daughter her first word. My daughter thinks it’s funny now that I told her that story.
Omg I'm dying by younger brother used to call stick d***s
I just googled Jetkids by Stekke and now have to have one for my grandchild. We're planning on flying overseas next year.
When he was little Tommy asked a waitress for. "SUH.... Mice"
One time I was in a changing room at a women’s clothing store with my then-two-year-old, trying on a new top. It was the type of fitting room with a curtain across the entrance that you just pull closed when you’re inside. Well, my toddler apparently got bored with watching me try on clothes, so he ripped open the curtain and ran off at top speed into the (fairly busy) store. I did not have time to think - he has always been super active and he could really move when the mood struck him, so my reflexes were to get to him and grab him as quickly as possible. So, half-naked wearing just my bra (which was not by any means a nice bra), pale and flabby because it was the winter months, I ran after him out of the changing room and across the store, loudly shouting his name (which caused all the shoppers in the immediate vicinity to turn and look). He was actually halfway out the door and into the shopping centre by the time I was able to catch him, and then I had to scuttle awkwardly back to the fitting rooms, bright red, embarrassed to within an inch of my life. Obviously, he thought - and still thinks to this day when I tell him this story - it was hilarious.
Kudos to mom! No matter what, got to make sure our wee ones are OK, but damn... They are fast!
Yeah? Remind him of the time you taught him to use a SPOON. Or maybe remind him (LOUDLY AND IN PUBLIC) of how you taught him to WIPE HIS A*S - and that it took MONTHS.
I taught my child that if he ran away from me, someone else would take him home. He didn't run away....
"While these moments are funny to look back on, there have been many moments raising an autistic child that I have felt embarrassed in public for not so funny things," Dayna added. "For example, one time my child was melting down in the parking lot of Starbucks and screaming at me while cars just drove by and stared."
But she gives kids the benefit of the doubt, noting that they're probably not intentionally embarrassing their parents. "Instead, I think that parents have expectations, and society has placed so many expectations on [us] that parents take their children's behaviors personally," Dayna explained. "Children (especially young children) aren't self aware and aren't aware of social 'normalcies' yet, so what they think is normal can be very embarrassing or humiliating for parents."
Recently we were walking into the store right before a snowstorm, and naturally there were people hoarding cases of water into their car like it was about to be the apocalypse. My son (8, and loves math) looked at them as we were walking by and was LOUDLY asking why they needed so much water. I laughed it off, but this kid did the math of how many bottles were in each pack and how many cases they loaded into their car and was like “what are they going to do with 210 bottles of water at one time? they really couldn’t leave any for other people?”
He’s not wrong but shut up 😂
My daughter has one volume level: loud. And we talk a lot about being safe and making bad decisions. "Mom! That kid isn't being safe. He's STUPID!" is said relatively often 😅
We needed this kid around during the toilet paper hoarding debacle of 2020. Maybe that would have embarassed some sense into people
My brother would YELL in the store at the top of his lungs, "Look at that lady, she's soooooo fat" or "That man REALLY stinks".... I would walk away from him and let my Mom deal with him!!!!
I must say, if my kid did that, I'd be tempted to say, "You're right, kid. What are they going to do with 210 bottles?"
We were in the pet food aisle of a grocery store and talking about how our dog was very old when he died and how our cat was quite old and we weren’t sure how much longer he would have to live.
This older woman was sharing the aisle with us and my 4yo son turns to point at her and says “so this lady…” and I had to scoop him up very quickly before he could finish his sentence.
My son asked my grandmother why she wasn't dead yet. Luckily she found it hilarious and loved to tell the story.
We were standing in line to get on a plane and my oldest (who was 3 at the time) pointed to the man directly behind us who had a very large stomach and said very loudly "he is having a baby!"
Luckily he was such a good sport and was so kind. But I had to explain a couple things to her after that haha
My middle guy is a very intense and observant boy. He will zoom in on something or someone and take in as much as he can. When we met a gentleman with dwarfism in the supermarket I saw that 'click' in his eyes. He was 4 yo. Before I could grab him he had positioned himself next to the person. After careful consideration he yelled loudly back to me: I don't like short people! I could have died. Luckily the person was very gracious and we had a serious talk at home!
But today's WOKE crowd says men can be women and need tampax machines in boys restruoom in high school so maybe men CAN have babies!!!! Idiots
We were also curious if Dayna believes her kids will always find ways to embarrass her. "I definitely think that there are always opportunities for kids to embarrass their parents. And as they hit teen and young adult years, they find it more fun to poke fun at their parents," she told Bored Panda. "If parents and kids create a strong bond, the joking and silliness can be a fun source of connection as their relationship grows."
I'm currently 38 weeks pregnant and my 6 year old told a cashier:
"My mom looks fat when she's naked, but when she's wearing clothes she looks pregnant"
This was literally out of nowhere and unprompted.
She's not wrong, so I just thanked her for sharing.
My 4 year old daughter saw someone wearing a full niqab at a playground and said out loud “is she a ninja? It’s not even halloween?” I was so embarrassed
This one almost made me burst into laughter!!! I'm in the office, with my manager next to me...
I did burst out laughing. That s**t is hilarious
Load More Replies...Well that’s a great time to explain how there are other cultures in the world, and that the woman was wearing clothing that was normal in her culture (even though, from a feminist standpoint, it greatly needs me). Always good to reach kids that not everyone lives and dresses and eats just like we do. The least racist people are those who have had known and had experience with a variety of people from a variety of cultures. They understand that, even though we’re all a lot more alike than different, we do have some differences, and the majority of those differences are no biggie. You can leave it at that of the kid is really young. No need to go into the differences that tend to cause war with a small child.
I always taught my girls that just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s wrong
Load More Replies...The first time I saw a woman in a niquab was when I was five or six, and for some reason I thought she was God. So I said, "Hallelujah!" to her, and Mum was embarrassed!
I got on a bus with my 3 year old daughter and there were several ladies from India in very colourful saris sitting down the aisle from us. She started pointing and shouting, "Clowns, Mum! Look at the clowns!"
Reminds me of when my little brother walked up to a lady with a hijab and asked why she was wearing a Halloween costume. The hijab had these eye patterns.
If it covered her eyes with a grill, she was wearing a burka.
Load More Replies...My wife was at the grocery store with our granddaughter, who was 6 or 7. She saw a lady wearing an eyepatch and yelled out loud "A PIRATE! Grandma, look! There's a PIRATE lady!"
I know three women who wear full niqab here in Canada, They get quite used to comments. If it's kids, they usually find them funny, and they've all heard ninja. The one woman's husband urged her to take martial arts classes because he thought it would be cool to be married to a ninja. In my ignorance, I'd assumed the husbands would be very mean and controlling, but all three are nice; all three say it's their wives' choice how much to cover, and I feel like a tool for making assumptions.
Wow, I've just realized I've made the same assumptions, somewhat unconsciously.
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In the grocery store this weekend, my son yelled "why is that lady screaming at her baby?!" in a very loud, very shocked tone. It was embarrassing for everyone around but maybe now that lady won't be screaming at her toddler in public anymore.
I quietly pull out my phone now a days, makes people double think their actions.
Dayna also says it's important for parents to take embarrassment with laughter when it comes to light-hearted mistakes. "If there are extremely challenging behaviors that are embarrassing, I want parents to know this doesn't mean your child is 'bad' or you are failing as a parent," the expert shared.
"Allow yourself to remove the judgement from others and focus on the relationship between you and your child," Dayna continued. "You can learn more about how to release the pressure of onlookers in my book, Calm the Chaos: A Failproof Roadmap to Parenting Even the Most Challenging Kids."
A little person walked by us in the store qnd my son shouted "daddy that lady is so tiny. Daddy I love her she is so tiny."
Lol God damn it.
The answer is “People come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. Isn’t that wonderful?!”
Yep. If we were all exactly the same, it’d be really boring. Wouldn’t it?
Load More Replies...My son was around 4 and we’re at the doctors office. A little person came in and my son says in full ear shot, “That man makes me uncomfortable.” No where to go, I tell him all people are different. Some are small and some tall and in between. Maybe your bright red hair makes him feel uncomfortable. Maybe not the right thing to say, but I felt he should be aware of what he says aloud and how it feels to be shamed about your looks by others.
Aww that's kind of sweet though. I don't think the person would take offense to that
I was at a hardware shop with my then 3yr old daughter and a little person was helping me find the right aisle for the item I needed. As we are walking my child loudly says, “Mummy, he’s so small! Why is he so small?!” As I didn’t answer she repeated this even louder while I was frantically trying to work out what to say. Oof
Honest answers are the best; anything else tells the child there's something to be ashamed of. Not many people will take offense at a 3-year-old's question, and those that do are dealing with their own stuff, not your kid's.
Load More Replies...One day I was with my 3yo son waiting for his 5yo sister in front of the kindergarten. Young woman came and while she was walking to the entrance, he said "The most beautiful mother in the world!" His eyes were like in animation movies with hearts in the middle 😀
this is so cute though 🥹 i'm an autistic 14 year old and for some reason when i see the little people i always just start smiling, not in a mean way they just make me smile
Please note that midget is a highly offensive term these days. Thanks.
Load More Replies...I think I’d love that comment from a child. He didn’t say, “What’s wrong with her?” He said he loved her.
that's quite sweet really. she was probably amused, and glad he wasn't judgemental about it, just interested
This happened to a friend. She was shopping with her toddler and needed to use the bathroom. She had her period so the toddler must have noticed her pad. In the supermarket later the toddler announced loudly to the cashier, “My Mum has a Band-Aid in her undies!”.
then there is a 10 year old or two that are just confused by hearing that, like, why does underwear require a bandaid, is it bleeding? how can a piece of clothes bleed??
My son would ask random men if they were his daddy. I am married to his father!!! He knows exactly who his dad is!
Did he happen to read that children's book, "Are You My Daddy?", the one where the tiger cub runs around asking different animal fathers the same question?
We were proud that our daughter knew her home phone number when she was 3. When she was about 5 she had a habit of walking up to random gorgeous women & telling them her daddy's phone number. I had to ask her why she did that when daddy has mommy. Mommy is mommy. Daddys need someone to have fun with. We have no idea where she got that idea. Tears later I asked for clarification. Fun like bicycling, hiking, snorkeling, etc. Since parenthood, daddy does not have that kind of fun anymore.
My dd is exactly same she calls any woman mommy and any bloke daddy
We used to live on a Navy base and my daughter’s father would sometimes be out to sea. It didn’t matter if her father was home or away, when she was a toddler, every guy wearing the Navy work blues, she would run up and yell, “Dadda!” One day she did it in McDonald’s and this poor guy’s girlfriend/wife started to get angry and demanded an explanation. I came running up and started apologizing and told them everyone is Dadda if you’re wearing work blues. I felt so bad for the poor guy. She started apologizing to him and I left them so I don’t know how it ended.
I was walking my 2 year old with the stroller and an elderly man was walking toward us. He had a white beard. A large belly. And happened to be wearing a bright red shirt. Can you guess what happened next? 2 year old, yelling at the top or his lungs and frantically pointing at the man: - SANTA CLAUS! Mommy look that's Santa Claus! Look mommy, look there he is! We're still some distance away from this poor man, so I think there's a chance he didn't hear us and I cross to the other side of the street to avoid him hearing us. I try to calm the kid down but he's too excited to even hear me. 2 year old yells louder: - Mommy, that's Santa Claus!!! PRESEEEEENTS! WHERE ARE MY PRESENTS!?! We were on the other side of the street but I'm pretty sure he heard and he definitely saw my kid pointing at him and jumping up and down in his stroller. He did not seem to find it cute though. Although, to be fair, you can't look like Santa and dress like Santa and not expect toddlers to lose their s**t lol.
But what if he really WAS Santa? Maybe that was his "disguise" tho it didn't work out for him? Hmm.. something to ponder.
An elderly lady I know has white hair no beard and doesn't remotely resemble a man but she was sitting in a wheelchair in a garden centre wearing a big red coat because it was mid December and a little bit ran up to her and climbed onto her lap because he thought she was santa. She found it absolutely hilarious and it was even mentioned at her funeral because it was one of her favourite memories
Both my grandpa and my dad LOVED when kids mistaked them for Santa. They were definitely dead ringers for old saint nick.
My dad is huge, with a belly and a long white beard. Dresses in jeans, a lot of black. Looks like a biker. Many adults find him kind of scary because he's so big and can look fierce. But kids crawl right up to him, right on him, even if he's not wearing his Santa suit. He just plays along. Sometimes the scariest looking men are giant teddy bears underneath.
I had a great beard down to the middle of my chest (which I have since gotten tired of and now keep trimmed fairly short) and walked past a shopping cart with two small children in it, wearing a solid red shirt, a few days before Christmas. One of them said very quietly "Hello Santa." I said hello back and kept walking.
I have a friend who for many years, performed as Santa. He still has the hair, beard, and belly. Any children in the store at which he happens to be shopping can spot him a mile away. Their response: "MOMMY, LOOK! IT'S SANTA CLAUS!"
We were at Target and my son was about 3 at time and he grabbed tampons off the shelf and said “here’s the things you put up your butt, mom!”
Lol. My kids call them diapers lol. And I aways say well kind of. But my oldest daughter aways laugh at them because she is about that age and knows. So I just laugh to. But I cry a little in the inside because I've got all girls. And someday they will know they are not diapers.
My oldest daughter was in the grocery store with her (@ the time) 2yo, buying diapers and pads. My granddaughter kept pointing at each item and repeating loudly, "That for you butt! That for mine! That for you butt! That for mine!"
Dad here. We were at the grocery store and saw this monster of a man, definitely a bodybuilder - he was like 6’3” 250 pounds of muscle. We pass him in an aisle and my boy (3 or 4 at the time) says to him “my dad can beat you up”. I look at the giant man and he just smirks (in a non threatening way). We go about our business as usual (no; I didn’t correct my son, I let him think I was Superman as long as he wanted too)
Why would a little kid say that? That’s something the dad wishes the kid said.
My daughter mooned the grocery store while I was putting our stuff on the counter to be scanned. I have no idea how long she had her pants down, but I heard laughing and turned and there she was, butt hanging out.
We were in Albertson's and my 2--3 yr old daughter stops, pulls down her pants. "I just pooted, thought I pooped" Deli ladies glowered at me like I taught her that.
Having worked at a grocery store deli, I can assure you that the people that work there only have two emotions. Dead inside or disdain for the world.
Load More Replies...My best friend Dana and her Mom had custody of my besties niece Sarah when we were teenagers. Well Sarah spent a lot of time with Dana in her room including when she was listening to music. In 1994 we were 17 and walking through Albertsons shopping with Dana's Mom when Sarah decided to start singing at the top of her lungs. Unfortunately, it was Nine Inch Nails "Closer" and started yelling 'I want to f**k you like an animal!" I thought her Mom was going to murder both of us, right then and there! We hustled Sarah outside to the car and the looks we got from other shoppers, especially since we live in the freaking bible belt, you would have thought we murdered Jesus.
When I was a teenager, my oldest sister got divorced. My 2 nephews (2 and 4) stayed with our parents on the farm till my sister could get her now ex husband moved out. While at the farm, grandpa taught the boys the finer things of living on a farm. Fast-forward to the day when the boys came home. We were playing in the backyard, which was close to a busy street in the city. While my younger sister watched the kids, I went in the house to help my dad move a sofa. We heard ALL kinds of car horns. Fearing the worst we ran outside. Here is my 2 year old nephew peeing on the side of the house in full view of a busy street. Had to explain what ONLY ON THE FARM meant!
My daughter ( about 3 at the time ) used to help me put groceries on the checkout counter. When we got to the cashier she would introduce herself ( full name ) state her age and the fact that "all the groceries had to pass by you ( the cashier ) because otherwise that would be stealing and that her cookies needed to be scanned and paid for before she got one." Every.Single.Time. Luckily the cashier thought it was cute and probably was glad that she wasn't one of those "screaming bloody murder" kids because they had to wait to get their cookie/candybar .
Not my kid, but my brother. It was Christmas Eve mass and he was about 3 or 4. Brother snuck out of his seat, laid down on the priest's feet, and loudly sobbed "We go home now?!". I have never seen my mom so red. The priest just laughed it off and said that was his cue to stop talking.
When I was younger, it wasn't me but another younger child in my parents church started crying and the parents were getting dirty looks from some of the old biddies. Well the pastor at the time noticed and say, "let the child cry it means the church family is growing and that's a good thing"
I like how the pastor publicly called out the judgmental attitudes. Being a parent is hard enough. Parents need support, not criticism.
Load More Replies...My bratty great niece loudly announced in the middle of mass "God is Dead". The priest stopped the sermon & asked her why she said that. My grandma just died & went to Heaven. God is in Heaven. He must be dead too. Child logic.
My old pastor once said he's not offended when people check their watch during his sermon, but if they start shaking it to see if it's broken he knows he's gone too long.
Took my daughter, I think she was three at the time, into the public restroom with me. She loudly started asking why I have hair on my butt…
this one doesn't finish the full comment- it ends with "it wasn't my butt".
One time my daughter and I are in the bathroom she was like 3 she said very loudly "why do you have hair down there? Mom I don't have hair down there so why do you?" I said shhhh it cause mommy's a big girl. And I'll explain it when your older. Lol I never forget all there embrassing moments when I had to take them to the restroom with me. Lol. They was more then one.
One of my colleagues' son loudly pointed out that his dad had a large p**s in a pool dressing room. Poor guy turned lobster-red when he told me ( we were laughing about all the embarrassing stuff our kids said ) I didn't know what to answer at first ( I stuttered that I had no clue about size- embarrassing myself in the process ) and then finally managed "well, in his perspective it must seem large , especially by comparison".... Then face-palmed myself in thought. He and I get along really well and Luckily in the meantime there are no taboos between us now, but that was the first time was kind of awkward . lol.
My child (about 18 months at the time), yelled "mommy has a hair butt!" when I was running around naked. Thankfully we were home at the time. On a separate note, 8 years later, I got called into the bathroom, with my child yelling, "mommy, I have hair on my crotch!". At least she learned something, over the years. lol
My daughter called a vagina a butt also until she was 6 and we have had very similar public bathroom chats lol
I had a four year old call hers a butterfly.
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After my daughter was potty trained, she liked the freedom of not having a diaper. One day, our daycare teacher called to see when I was coming to pick up my daughter because she was going to stay past her shift to talk to me about something. Naturally, I worried until I arrived at daycare.
Earlier in the day, my sweet cherub had grabbed herself (Michael Jackson style) and said, 'I have a ‘gina' then pointed directly to her teacher’s crotch and said, 'And you do too.' She then went around informing the other teachers that they too had 'a ‘gina.' Everyone had a good laugh that day. I was embarrassed but just shrugged and said, 'Well, she’s not wrong.'
Do they call in parents for a talk every time a child discovers a part of human anatomy?
Our teachers at Kindergarten would tell this to us too, just to share the laugh
Load More Replies...It reminds me of the kid in kindergarten cop who said boys have a penis, girls have a vagina
I taught my kids it was a Lilly after being caught off guard by my toddler son. I was looking at a box of Lillet tampons at the time!
Load More Replies...When I worked daycare, Andy and Prissy were best friends. Despite her name, Prissy wasn't, and her mom was very down to earth. Andy's dad was very private. When the kids were nearly three, Prissy informed Andy's dad that he had a peenis like Andy, and she had a bagina. The dad's discomfort was palpable.
Probably so that they could both have a laugh about it. My mother has been called into the nursery on several occasions to be told the hilarious things her children have told the teachers
Load More Replies...All I could "see" was that one scene from Kindergarten Cop... "boys have a penis girls have a Bagina"
An older woman wearing a big, black, cloak-looking jacket with a visible wart on her nose said hi to my daughter at the grocery store when she was almost 3. Daughter glared at her and immediately yelled "go away you're a witch!"
She used to be obsessed with Snow White and honestly this lady did kinda look like the witch in that movie lol. As soon as I saw her I knew what my daughter would be thinking I was just praying she wouldn't say it. The lady was actually pretty nice about it but I was so embarrassed lol.
I wonder if the mom had told the lady that she looked like an actress in Snow White, she may have taken that as a compliment. And made her feel better.
she 'as got a wart. And the nose, we did the nose. And the hat. But she turned me into a newt!
I was going to the theatre cafe, there was a special matinee for children. I was wearing purple stripy tights, purple boots and dress and a purple witchy hat (because I can). As I was getting my wheelchair out of the car I hear "That's a witchy hat" His mum replies "No, it's a fairy hat" I say that he's right, it's a witchy hat. Then I encounter a shy girl that wants to see the soot sprites and other small creature on the hat. Finally I pass a whole class pointing to me and shouting "It's a witch!". The teachers were blushing and shushing them. I did a 360 with my chair saying "Yes, yes, I am a witch" Then I stuck out my tongue at the adults and went on my way.
We were in a health and beauty shop. Not too many customers and talking about our holidays as we were shopping for sun tan lotion when my 5 year old pipes up with, ‘remember when you closed the pool at the hotel because you pooped in the pool’ a lady turned and started giggling. I was mortified.
The truth - someone did poop in the pool and the pool had to be shut for the day to clean it but I didn’t do it, see it or have anything to do with it. I didn’t even enter the pool that day 🙈
When we met with our realtor for the first time, my 5 year old was sitting on top of a large plastic storage bin while we talked. This kid has clearly been feral during COVID and has not been around anyone but family. In the middle of our visit, the kid let out an impressively lengthy fart that was made even louder by the plastic he was sitting on. Thank goodness the realtor just laughed and high fived him. We are socializing him more now 😊
My daughter asks every bald man if he is her daddy, even if we are with her daddy.
My kids when they where real small use to yell at random women mommy! Didn't matter what they look like or how old. It was kinda cute and funny but really embrassing cause you never know when someone is gonna get offended over it.
My son went through a very long phase of trying to put his finger in belly buttons when he was a toddler. If he was near me, he was reaching for my belly button. So annoying. Anyway, kiddo was 2 1/2 or so and I was really sick and had no one to watch my son, so I took him to urgent care with me. There was a very large man in a very small t-shirt, that prominently showed of his massive black hole of a belly button. I didn't notice the man or his belly button at first, but kiddo sure did. I'm signing into the doctor, and kiddo is struggling to be put down. I put him down and he makes a bee line for this guy with his little finger pointing at the object of his obsession. Kiddo get's to this guy, pulls the t-shirt up, and plunges is whole tiny fist into this massive, hairy belly button. The guy was super nice about it. Wasn't even offended when I took kiddo to the rest room to wash his hand really well. Then the three of us spent an eternity in that waiting room. Kiddo was angry he couldn't fondle the strangers button, the guy was not comfortable at all about any of it, and I just wanted to sink into the floor.
Oh my daughter did this as well when she was about 2 years old! We were at the airport waiting for our flight and she pulled my shirt up putting her finger in my belly button, then her dad’s bellybutton, and then she just went on to the man sitting next to us and pulled up his shirt as well. I managed to stop her quite quickly but it was mortifying! Pretty happy that the belly button phase didn’t last too long
Toddler threw wine bottles out of the shopping cart (2 of them, both red, shattered everywhere) and said screamed “no more wine Mommy”.
Yep. It’s always articles like this that, while funny, are good refreshers on why I’m never having kids
Load More Replies...My son at the age of 2 was the opposite. He ran around the supermarket calling “more wine mummy, more wine?”. I replied, “yes please, the usual “.
I work in a bottle shop and it amazes me how many kids know what "mummy's" and "daddy's" drinks look like.
mostly cause the kid sees the bottle and says"can I have some?" then they say "No [XnameX] This is a Mommy's/Daddy's Drink only" Thus they know it as a "mom /dad drink
Load More Replies...But were you drinking two much wine. Also no one like or dislike the post please
"Im going to beat the hell out of you with a shoe/slipper 'cause I can't get drunk!" .....Yeah, you sound like you will/are a GREAT PARENT...... *hello cps*
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I was in the bathroom at the zoo with my then 3 year old and she stuck her head under the side of the stall and yelled "I peeking!" at the person in the stall next to us.
Taking toddlers to public bathrooms is usually a fun game of "How Can I Die From Embarrasment Today?". 😅
As a purposely childless adult let me tell you from the other side how angering I find it when it happens to me.
When my son was about 1.5, he pointed at a woman’s generous cleavage with a confused face and asked her “bum”?
It was more funny than embarrassing but it was my first realization that kids have zero filter.
My son, at around 3, gestured to a woman’s breasts (fully clothed in a form fitting shirt) and said, “Oooh, my mom has those too!”
As a daycare teacher, this happens all the time
Load More Replies...When my youngest sister was a kid, she pointed to my cleavage and said "Your boobcrack is showing"
My son told the nurse we are homeless and live under a bench. We're not. We've never been. He overheard me telling my sister that I wanted to move and didn't care if we moved to a bridge 🤣. Kids!
One time my daughter said "mommy I wish we lived in the car cause then we would share a room and I would be with you ALLL the time" it was really sweet but be careful what you wish for, my love. I did live in the car during my pregnancy so the thought terrified me. Now she is 10 and barely wants me in her room.
I don't abide by the 'be careful what you wish for' because if she knew what we knew that wouldn't be a request. Glad things are better.
Load More Replies...My daughter used to tell everyone that she was going to get a house in our backyard for her and her 52 kids and her pet bear. She told everyone how I was going to do the grocery shopping for her. I was going to cook for her and do her laundry and help clean her house. I told her if she had a pet bear and 52 kids that would be too much work for me. I said I think you’re going to have to hire a maid for all of that. She said I would be okay doing all that work. 😂
In 2020 when I had to bring my 2yo daughter to the store with me, she would see everyone with a mask on and start fake coughing loudly. She associated masks with doctors and being sick I guess. It was cringe worthy and I had to rush out of the store because I couldn’t get her to stop. Everyone would give us nasty looks. The store finally offered pick up orders so we avoided the store for a long time 😅
My kid really did get sick at the checkout during covid. She started throwing up, so I shoved a bag from the register under her head. Everyone treated us like it was the plague except for one dad who was sympathetic and said "God it's hell when they get sick like that." like what was I supposed to do, snobby mothers? Pick her up and charge out of the store as she threw up all over the ground? Have some compassion. This story just reminded me of that since it was during covid. She was fine just too much excitement from a birthday party and not a lot of sleep from excitement the night before. Used to happen a lot
You know, even in wartime, your house can still burn down from faulty wiring or some other non-war related reason. So too, even during the pandemic, not every sniffle—-or bout of nausea—-meant you had COVID. People still caught colds, had the non-COVID flu, and ate stuff that didn’t agree with them. I have had chronic sinus issues since my early twenties (I’m 62 now). I can’t tell you how many people looked at me weird when I sniffled, or once in a while sneezed, under my mask, during lockdown. If I was in the mood (sinus issues often bring on thumping sinus headaches, which means sometimes I wasn’t), I would explain that it was my sinuses, and that I had suffered the same long before COVID, and would continue to suffer after it. Unless I end up having surgery for a deviated septum, and that’s not happening anytime soon.
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At a funeral and 3/4 of the way through the priest is saying something about going home, and in this huge church comes a high pitched voice " He died?" It brought the service to a halt, you couldn't help but laugh.
At my grandfather's wake, we regretted not putting a little recorder in the coffin. There's a bunch of cousins who were like, 4-9 years old. Their parents just let them go look as they wanted, so they wouldn't fear death. There was a lot of whispering "Did you touch him? No, you touch him! I already did! You think he's wearing underwear? Can we open his eyes?" Just the weirdest stuff. Then my two-year-old cousin laid herself out on the kneeling bench in the same pose as Pops was in. Her mother scooped her up fast. "Okay, that's just too creepy, honey!"
After going to the bathroom with me in the grocery store, randomly out of the blue my 4 year old daughter shouts “mommy you pooped in the store!” She wasn’t wrong.. but not everyone needed to know.
When my nephew was about 4 he was in the car with me, my husband and my mum and he very innocently goes “is head and d**k a naughty word?” I’m shocked so I go “excuse me?” He repeats the questions. I tell him that yes it is a naughty word and he shouldn’t really say it but ask where he heard it. He goes “I heard mummy say ‘Alex you’re a d******d’” (Alex is his dad). Very funny.
My youngest was about 7 and helping her dad clean his pop vinyl figures she picked one up and asked "Where does this k**b-head go?" we sort of froze like "What?" She thought it meant the same as bobble-head
Although i never drank to any excess I still always felt a little funny if I picked up liquor while my kids were with me so I used to just casually say it was "cleaning liquid". It backfired when at a store my son recognized the bottle in another patrons hand and yelled "my mom uses that to get clean after she locks us away". Translation: after I put them to bed.
My 1.5 year old son is the whitest baby I've ever seen. But every time he sees very tall Black men, he points to them and shouts, "Dada!!!"
My oldest was 4 or 5 at the time. We were in a big grocery store being checked out and the cashier had a bunch of dark colored spots all over her face. Like freckles, but darker. They may have even been little moles, I don’t know. My dear child asked her what happened to her face. The lady was a good sport and told my daughter she was just born like that, but you could tell she was self conscious about it. I wanted to sink into the floor.
"They're called "Beauty marks". She was born with them, and they're beautiful." Frame differences possitively for little kids. I'm a wheelchair user, and I get the occasional kid-comment. My go to is "I don't walk well, and fall down a lot, and I use my wheels so I can go faster. I'm okay, and it's okay that I use a wheelchair. It's good not to ask other people about their bodies or their wheels or canes and stuff, because sometimes pointing out how they're different can make people feel bad. Instead, if you want to talk to them, you can just say hi, or say what your name is, and ask their name."
my mom had Pityriasis rosea, She had one huge spot on both cheeks, so it looked like she's always heavily blushing, and her arms had a huge one on her forearms, when she got older, the spots broke u pa bti and they became more like huge dots, Also on a side note I have Geographic tongue, so my tone sometimes is bright red and shiny or its got swirling white spirals on it, thankfully its not too bad {go look up Geographic tongue its actually pretty in some people}
I used to work selling skincare/bath stuff etc. had a customer once asking about if we had anything that could fade the pigmentation she had. she had these light brown areas sort of at the corner of each eye and slightly behind the cheekbone, with paler spots in them. I explained that we didn't really have any products that would have much of an impact, but then I pointed out that I thought they were quite pretty, and reminded me of a little fawn. her face absolutely lit up and she looked like she was going to cry. it floored her that anyone would see what she saw as a flaw as a unique and pretty feature. I often think about that, and hope that on days when she feels self conscious about them, maybe she remembers my comment, and it makes her feel more confident
One time my three-year old saw a man who looked of African descent. She pointed and said Mama look a chocolate man!!!!!!! 🤦🏽♀️
My daughter asked a woman why she had blue lips. I wanted to die. The lady said to her, "why do you have pink lips?" And then my daughter told her she wants blue lips like hers and can she touch them. She was only 3. The lady was super nice and actually let my daughter touch her face. I was so mortified I didn't know what to say.
I’ve had a few. I was at the zoo with my daughter when she was 4 a couple of years ago. It was very busy. She proudly said very loudly ‘my mum has bum-worms’. I wanted the ground to swallow me up. She picked it up from watching bluey. On the same visit we were sharing some food and out of nowhere she says ‘oi you f****r get your own’ 😂😂
We were toilet training and out at a cafe. My kiddo was playing under the outdoor table and when I peered under she had squatted and dropped a poo right there. I’ve never scooped up a s**t so fast and bailed.
My 6 year old daughter and I were outdoor dining. I’m pregnant, so she points out anyone with a big belly. An obviously pregnant woman walked past and my daughter yells “LOOK MOMMY! She has a big belly too!” I say, “Yes, Maybe she’s having a baby!!!” I’m fully intending to talk about not yelling something like that, and the various reasons for big bellies, when she points to an older (50’s or 60’s) woman on the larger weight size and again says “She’s got a big belly too! Is she having a baby?” 😬🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Not my kids because she can barely talk but my brother asked my mum if she was still a virgin. In the middle of the library.
My 3 year old saw a lady throw a lottery ticket on the ground when we were walking past and yelled at her “yourrr disgusting, pick it up.” while rolling her eyes 🤦🏼♀️
also told my brother in law his new baby (her cousin) “looks weird” but thats okay maybe she’ll look better when shes a grown up. (Because my husband showed her a picture of her when she was like a hour old with a cone head and she asked what was wrong with it and we explained it happens it’ll go away later) but nothing like having a 3 year old tell you your first child isnt cute. Still think hes a little pissy about it.
screamed "I have poopy pants" during church. Not sure if it was the worst, but top 5
We were clothes shopping once and he ran around the aisles shouting "DADDY'S C**K, DADDY'S C**K". Daddy's socks. Fml. 🤦🏼♀️
My oldest used to point at people and shout "WHAT IS THAT!!" "Son, that's just another human, please don't point it's rude" Rinse and repeat through the entire store. And bonus he'd wait until they were RIGHT next to us, so there was no mistaking he was pointing directly at them.
That be funny, most people would be running to find a mirror to find out what exactly that was 🤣😂
We were at the grocery store and a very large woman was on one of those motorized scooter things and my 2 year old goes “oh…heavy” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
My husband was away in India for a business trip for 3 weeks. I brought my 5 year old daughter to ballet practice and my 2 year old son and I were waiting in the lobby for it to be over, when suddenly he points at another man also waiting and says (very loudly) “Is that my Daddy?” I was mortified and also trying hard not to laugh. I think I told him that he knew that wasn’t his Daddy. Then he sees another man and says the same thing. He KNEW it was funny! Everyone was looking at us like he had no Idea who his dad was!
“No honey. I’ve told you we got you from the second hand store,” might be a good response.
When my son was around 5-6, I told him while grocery shopping that we were visiting my MIL for Thanksgiving that year because I couldn’t afford the time to cook a lot of food at once (I was finishing a college degree + working). As we were leaving, I stopped to grab a drink at a serving counter and he proceeded to tell the barista that “We’re going to my Nana’s for Thanksgiving because my mom can’t afford to cook dinner now!” I didn’t shop there again for at least a month. Absolutely mortified.
Don’t fake diagnose kids, everyone knows kids just like to say whatever comes to mind
Load More Replies...At Olive Garden for lunch, the waiter asked my friend if she wanted some wine and her son said “Oh my mom only drinks at night”. We were all dying!!
Our gardener's name is Juan. My 2.5 year old daughter loves Juan. The issue here is, if she sees anyone who resembles Juan, be it at the grocery store, or on the street she greets them with a "HI JUAN!!!" Kids say the darndest things.
My oldest used to ask in PUBLIC quite loudly if we were going to eat dinner that day. Like we often skipped meals. Didn’t help that she was a twig. My 2nd child didn’t want to behave at the doctors office waiting area for her vaccines and I had to literally run around the waiting room chasing her while she screamed. No one helped. They all watched and snickered
To be fair, who is grabbing another person's screaming running kid in a doctors office?
I can imagine Kazuha grabbing the kid and stomping on some random body part, thinking they were helping.
Load More Replies...We were in the grocery store and my daughter starts yelling "help! Help! Help!" Trying to climb out of the cart. Omg I was worried ppl were going to think we were kidnapping her!
My bff and I are in our late 30s, but she already has a head of mostly grey hair. My daughter (5) has asked a few times now if she’s a grandma. And while my bff is not offended, every single time I want to die.
Lol just today my 7 yr old and i were hiking a trail that people can also bike on and this older gentleman comes riding on his bike past us and my son goes, "Wow that guy was OLD!" 🤦 I was like could u not wait until he was out of hearing range? Lol
If the parent immediately shouts “but ripped!” it can ameliorate the damage.
I was 3 when they were changing a male mannequin at a store. I loudly said "Mummy, who doesn't that man have a penis?" Mum swears my voice echoed through the whole department store. She was mortified. I think it sounds funny.
When my nephew was about 4, Granny took him to the restaurant washroom before an outing, and urged him to try to pee. After trying and not producing, he said to her "my penis is tired."
Load More Replies...Oops and tugs on her sleeve and tells, "excuse me lady but you have a big Daddy Long Legs on your chin".
Shopping with my Godson, "why do buy so much toilet paper when you live on your own? Is it because you dribble so much sh**?"
At a company BBQ my then 3 year old son told the president of my company that he “pees and poops in the potty!”
Take that Yahoo! I posted this comment to this article via Yahoo and they refused to post it because apparently pee and poop is offensive 🙄
Load More Replies...In Belgium kids up to 12 ride for free. My daughter 's birthday is in January, and it was April-May (? It's been more than a decade ago ) and I tell her to tell the ticket puncher that she's not 12 yet. Ticket puncher comes along and asks my daughter ( tall as she was ) if she's already 12 yet. Daughter: "yyyyyyyno" Ticket puncher looks at me, says:"I'll let it slide for once " and moves on. My daughter, a little too loud: "Mom, why are you teaching me to lie?"
I was looking after my godchildren, and their Mum had promised I'd take them to McDonald's. It wasn't in the best part of town, and there was another family there and their kids were climbing all over the furniture, screaming, etc. One of "mine" very loudly went "why don't their Mummys tell them to stop? They're very badly behaved"... I was shot looks like I was about to be punched, hoofed us out of their in lightening speed.
Once when my daughter was about three, we were eating dinner at a local restaurant when she put her fork down, looked at me and said: “Mommy, I have to poop.“ She didn’t exactly whisper it, so without thinking, I shot back “Gee can you say it any louder? They didn’t hear you in Montreal.” I knew I had made a mistake the minute the words left my mouth. Before I could stop her, she stood up and yelled “MOMMY I HAVE TO POOP!” I thought I was going to die of embarrassment. Luckily, everyone around us just laughed. That’s the day I learned that young children don’t understand what sarcasm is, lol 😂 💩
I was maybe five, back in 2004 (some months before I turned six), and I had just learned what immigrants were. My dad and I went to Walmart that night, and I looked around and saw black and Asian people, and according to my dad, I asked him, "Is this immigrant night?" Now, I meant no disrespect, but this is what happens when kids learn new words and aren't sure when or where it's okay to use them.
I was 3 when they were changing a male mannequin at a store. I loudly said "Mummy, who doesn't that man have a penis?" Mum swears my voice echoed through the whole department store. She was mortified. I think it sounds funny.
When my nephew was about 4, Granny took him to the restaurant washroom before an outing, and urged him to try to pee. After trying and not producing, he said to her "my penis is tired."
Load More Replies...Oops and tugs on her sleeve and tells, "excuse me lady but you have a big Daddy Long Legs on your chin".
Shopping with my Godson, "why do buy so much toilet paper when you live on your own? Is it because you dribble so much sh**?"
At a company BBQ my then 3 year old son told the president of my company that he “pees and poops in the potty!”
Take that Yahoo! I posted this comment to this article via Yahoo and they refused to post it because apparently pee and poop is offensive 🙄
Load More Replies...In Belgium kids up to 12 ride for free. My daughter 's birthday is in January, and it was April-May (? It's been more than a decade ago ) and I tell her to tell the ticket puncher that she's not 12 yet. Ticket puncher comes along and asks my daughter ( tall as she was ) if she's already 12 yet. Daughter: "yyyyyyyno" Ticket puncher looks at me, says:"I'll let it slide for once " and moves on. My daughter, a little too loud: "Mom, why are you teaching me to lie?"
I was looking after my godchildren, and their Mum had promised I'd take them to McDonald's. It wasn't in the best part of town, and there was another family there and their kids were climbing all over the furniture, screaming, etc. One of "mine" very loudly went "why don't their Mummys tell them to stop? They're very badly behaved"... I was shot looks like I was about to be punched, hoofed us out of their in lightening speed.
Once when my daughter was about three, we were eating dinner at a local restaurant when she put her fork down, looked at me and said: “Mommy, I have to poop.“ She didn’t exactly whisper it, so without thinking, I shot back “Gee can you say it any louder? They didn’t hear you in Montreal.” I knew I had made a mistake the minute the words left my mouth. Before I could stop her, she stood up and yelled “MOMMY I HAVE TO POOP!” I thought I was going to die of embarrassment. Luckily, everyone around us just laughed. That’s the day I learned that young children don’t understand what sarcasm is, lol 😂 💩
I was maybe five, back in 2004 (some months before I turned six), and I had just learned what immigrants were. My dad and I went to Walmart that night, and I looked around and saw black and Asian people, and according to my dad, I asked him, "Is this immigrant night?" Now, I meant no disrespect, but this is what happens when kids learn new words and aren't sure when or where it's okay to use them.
