“When I Was Little…”: 40 Funny And Wholesome Childhood Stories, As Told By Our Community

Dammit, my kids are too old to believe this now, but not old enough to realize they can't hold it for three hours

OMG that was genius

GENIUS!! I'm going to try this on my youngest. She won't use the potty yet but LOVES helping!

Love the story and the accompanying bathroom picture.

I ask my kid to go for me all the time! Every time she just tells me that it doesn't work that way and I have to go for myself. I told her to figure it out and get back to me. No word yet.

Waffles=treaded pancakes. Makes sense to me 😆

I'm crying, this is so funny!

I've had to have one of my other kids translate for me too I can feel this and she has been in tears cause I'm trying to figure it out and she is so upset.

We were somewhere w my son and it got late, but his dad kept talking to ppl and son, few months old, all of a sudden said: Ga! Ga! Which means go! go! All these ppl: What does he want? Ga! Ga! Oooh you want Schapie? He couldn't say the s yet. Sheepy. He wanted his stuffed animal to go sleep. Then we finally left.

SuPeR 🥰 CuTe ☺️ I’m a FoSteR MoM. I had 2-littles Brother/sister. 13 months apart. I needed the 2-1/2 yr old to do the same. Translate what her lil brother needed 🥰Such cuties. They’re teenagers now. And I’m grateful they still call & love me 🥰

THIS IS TOO ADORABLE FOR MY HEART

At the zoo, my daughter used to call the llama the momma.

I like that; blooming rooster=peacock.

This is how they shall now be referred to....

That feels like a better name for that bird!

What color paint was it? I need to know to flesh out the hilarious mental picture. I hope the paint stick warriors weren't using white. If you somehow were painting the ceiling red it would have made it even scarier.

I'd like to hear the mailman's version.

Every year, there were birds that would build a nest under my parents carport. One time, they built it on a storage rack and a feral cat ended up smashing all the eggs and destroying the nest. The next time my mom saw the cat, she grabbed a broom and chased it around the backyard while banshee screaming. Never saw that cat again. 😂

"Glad it wasn't me." - The bear, watching nearby.

I would of like to see this.

🤣😂🤣😂👍 omg so funny, in all my years in Catholic school no one has ever done this, must pass the idea onto my 11 yo 🙈

RESIST

AweSoMe😀👏🏼😆

Smartest kid in the school.

Was at my cousin's ranch riding 4-wheelers with cousin's daughter (about 13-14) and my 6-7 niece and nephew. My niece sees two cows going at it and exclaims, "Look their playing leapfrog!" A little while later my cousin's daughter whispers to me, "You know they weren't playing leapfrog, right?" I was probably 40s at they time. Yes, I know they weren't playing leapfrog.

I said in this Situation (was like 7-8 at the time) "Look the elephant is pregnant and the kid is coming, I see the little trunk!"

Be me, less than 2 years old, at my grandparent's house more than at my own, watching piggies and piglets all day. My parents took me to the zoo for the first time and when I saw an elephant, I triumphally exclaimed: PIGGY! Poor dad tried to explain to me it was not a piggy but an elephant, but I didn't want to listen. It was a piggy to me!

my sister and I visited to a zoo a long time ago (both in our early 20s back then) and while going around the zoo there was this photographer-guy nearby doing his own thing with the biggest lens we'd ever seen, so we dubbed it the "elephant leg"... and then we saw the elephants, the photographer still around doing his own thing, as well as a family with small kids... one asking his mommy: "why does it have another elephant leg?"... the mom quickly said: "go ask daddy, it's more his department"... dad didn't know how fast to try to disappear (kid was faster with a hecking load of questions regarding the "elephant leg"), my sister and I nearly pssed ourselves from laughter especially since the photographer was still doing his thing taking pictures of the elephants with this huge lens we'd earlier dubbed "the elephant leg", completely oblivious to what was happening around him... I've rarely had such fun in a zoo since...

HaHaHa 🤣 Sounds like when I saw a couple of dogs 🐕 🐩 doing “what 2 loving dogs do”I kept saying in front of everyone “Tell the big dog the lil one doesn’t want to play leapfrog”🤪😉😆

I'm glad the OP clarified about "gated community", because in the US, "compound" has negative connotations. Think religious cult or fringe anti-government extremists.

I (about 6 at the time) had someone stop as a was walking home from school one day and offer me candy to get in the car and talk to him. I was going to do it too, but a friend who was smarter than I was (and who was my age, but looked way older) super me, and the car sped off. I can name at least 10 other times that I nearly died, but that one was definitely the dumbest.

This story has been passed around since the dawn of time. The original uncle in the story must be evryone's uncle by now.

Uncle owen? Was your grandmother Shmi Skywalker by any chance?

Vaguely reminds me of the time I was babysitting and the kid, who was 5 or 6 at the time made a mess. I told him to clean up before bed, and he wanted me to help. I said something along the lines, you made the mess, I didn't. Why should I have to clean it up? He said his mom always helped him, and when I reminded him I'm not his mom, he said "But in my situation right now, you kind of are." How could I refuse, the kid had logic?

It's amazing how many kids all over the world made that comment

When my son was very little I told him not to run on the sidewalk with bare feet - he laughed hysterically and told me he only had human feet ❤️

Andrews Sisters originally.

Hey you got some rhymes!

😂🤣😂

You should remember her name as she was smarter than you!

Karma is my favorite b***h

That would explain your terrible spelling and grammar