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Parents will often encourage their kids to express themselves. "Use your words!" is a common phrase you can hear on a playground. But it's not always easy for children. They are still learning.

However, their attempts to articulate their feelings and thoughts can lead to really hilarious misunderstandings.

"The fact that my nephew told his teacher his mom is on parole. She's on patrol, serving in the National Guard," Caila C (@Cai_Lyfe) recently tweeted. "Patrol."

The anecdote quickly went viral and was also reposted on several social media platforms, prompting people to share more situations where kids tried to say something but sent the wrong message. Continue scrolling to check out the best ones we compiled just for you!

Image credits: Cai_Lyfe

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Henrik Schmidt
Community Member
4 years ago

Which is the objective truth!

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    love u
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    technically the truth, right?

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    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I casually mentioned once that my dads been inside every prison in the state. He’s a government building inspector.

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Oh... oh

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    John Topper
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yep. That's church. I don't see the problem with this one.

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    troufaki13
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    IT'S A MIRACLE!!

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    #7

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    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The child did not lie

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    Mayra
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Hairpiece

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    #9

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    James016
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    TIL there is an instrument called a Vibraslap.

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    #10

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    She is, in fact, a dealer.

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    Ranger Kanootsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Ah, I am too!

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    #12

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    love u
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    who complains about lasagna though seriously

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    Vorknkx
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Good thing it wasn't a therapist... "Mom, the rapist is on the phone."

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    setsuriseikou
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    And the prayer worked (well, you did come home, after all)!

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    SheamusFanFrom1987
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Deuce Bigalow: Principle Gigolo... XP

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Vamos a bailar 🎶

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    #17

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    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Guys, guys, grown-up is the word. He watches grown-up movies.

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    #18

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    Daniel Bowers
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    LOL

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    Kate
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    One more reason to not leave kids in the car, EVER.

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    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    As a mandated reporter (and, yes I am. I work with foster youth) it is our responsibility to get the facts before we call cps. It's not only important for the case (if there is one) but also so the authorities don't get called out unnecessarily.

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    love u
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    hahaha... 😅

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    There's some naughty understory there ;)

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    #23

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    *sound of CPS knocking at the door*

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    #24

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    Mayra
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Chefs will now be referred to as Cookies

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    #25

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    Paul Scheermeijer
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Did he ... or just had to retake class over and over for 28 years.....

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    #26

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    General Anaesthesia
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The surgeon went in for the lobotomy and came out empty handed.

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    #27

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    Paul Scheermeijer
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    2 out of 3.... still passed

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    #28

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I wanted Herbie myself.

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    VPN is vocational practical nurse, with the least amount of schooling. LPN is licensed practical nurse, and RN is registered nurse, with the longest amount of schooling. Then there's a nurse practitioner, who is closer to a doctor and can actually prescribe medication. A nurse can also get a PHD.

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I can't even imagine!

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    Emily
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Wouldn't the adults be able to tell that, given that this happened in a grocery store with a seafood department, the child meant crabs as in the food, not the other kind (which the child obviously has no idea what they are or that there is a double meaning to the phrase "I've got crabs" or "my mom has crabs!!")? Context clues presumably dictate that it isn't the other kind of crabs.

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    SheamusFanFrom1987
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Well, technically I drink and drive too. Water, energy drinks, coffee etc XP

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Good for you! “If the police police the people, then who polices the police?”

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    Ranger Kanootsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Hey hey, so does mine! (6 feet under)

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    girlsrock4ever
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited)

    I could just be paranoid but what if someone broke out of prison and decided to attack his guard's family? Just sayin'... across the street from a prison is NOT a good house location for a family...

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    Agent 8433599
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    LOL

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    setsuriseikou
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Pfff, certainly because taking out brains is obviously the best part of any neurosurgical case!

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    One of the kindergartens in my city had a teacher note out some time back: "Don't believe ever word your kid tells you about our kindergarten and we promise we will not believe every word your kid tells us about you"

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    Emily
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Like the daycare wouldn't know that a 3-year-old doesn't have the best listening/comprehension skills and would likely misunderstand the name Indiana? Wouldn't the parents tell the daycare what they do for a living (not that they have to, but to specify what their work hours are) so that the daycare would know why that parent wasn't picking the kid up?

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    Iris Andrade
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    How do kids come up with this stuff?

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why is Jonas staying with mom when dad is away, tho'?

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    Lynn Morello
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    They were not wrong.

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    Snorky The Pig
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Okay, Sign me up for the d**k show 🤣😂

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    ShaZam Beaubien
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I bet you had a few extra guests.

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    Snorky The Pig
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why would you be worried if a kid wants to be a chameleon? Let them be! People worry too much and stifle kids' imaginations WAY too much these days. He'll learn in time! But for now, LET HIM BE A KID!!!

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    BasedWang12.3
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    are you even allowed to take a buncha samples home. I think pops was makin a lil side dough

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    Via Hawk
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I once was with my friends and we were out of clean cups, so I used a nice wine glass to put lemonade into. I offered some to my friends little six year old brother who had been staring at the lemonade for quite a while. The next day my friend informed me that her brother told her parents I "offered him a sip of the beer I was drinking" ... We are 17 to make matters worse

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    GirlFriday
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    4 years ago

    I love this one. When my niece was four, she told me that aunt Dee shot her in the leg and gave her ice cream to keep her quiet. I was like, "at least you got ice cream." I told Aunt Dee about it (Dee is a doctor - the OBGYN mentioned in another post) and she was working at a vaccine clinic. After the vaccinations, the children got ice pops/popsicles/freezies (whatever you call them in your area).

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    DJ
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Well, He's not wrong.

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    Amy Pattie
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    4 years ago

    I mean she said what she meant!

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Now, with that one, the truth is just as rare.

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    Paul Scheermeijer
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    4 years ago

    Don't know what makes the most money tho

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I admit I didn’t get the connection between UConn and Alaska at first… I had to say “UConn” out loud before I realized… Yukon XD

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    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I need more information

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    Aunt Riarch
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Well he could have been

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    Lynn Morello
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    3 years ago

    I have been asked several times if I would do the Graveyard shift.. My husband hates me working from 3 - 11pm, he would not consider letting me work 11 - 7am.

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    Paul Scheermeijer
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    4 years ago

    Well I didn't but will do now.... stupid little %@&@

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    Bouche Clay
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    LOL

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    Snorky The Pig
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    But in all seriousness, a harmful metaphor.

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    Artsy Bookworm
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    4 years ago

    Huh?

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    willi santiago
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    4 years ago

    I think I'd prefer people thought I had ticks

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