Funny things your kids have done...

poorRob

My wife reported a great one from our son, aged maybe 4 at the time, in Tesco.
She reached for a pack of sanitary towels and he called out "No, not those Mum. You have the Super Tampax".

gizmobentess

I love the word whizpop - it comes from the BFG - but it sounds so much better and somewhat more acceptable then any of the alternative.:cool:

swingaloo

In a cafe passing the time waiting for the meal we played 'I spy' with little nephew.

His turn- I spy with my little eye something beginning with B.

Box, brush, bag, book and so on as he got more and more frustrated till finally we said 'Give up'.

He looked at us with complete disdain and said 'Duh, its the binegar'.

ricard

When our eldest son was a baby there was a big family gathering because my sister was home for a visit while living abroad. In the midst of a room full of assembled aunts, uncles and grandparents, her four year old daughter said to my wife: "my Mummy called your baby a ........" she then paused struggling to remember the new word. For what seemed an age the babble of conversation hushed while everybody awaited the punch line. I recall my sister looked remarkably relaxed and her composure was vindicated when eventually the sentence was concluded with: "a cousin".

funkybubbles

It seems that a lot of children have trouble sorting out words starting with the sound 'my'.

My daughter, now 28, aged about 4 proudly showed off her new vocabulary to her grandmother, announcing that the tiny item she was talking about was 'your newt'

She also invented her own language
mashed potato - 'capga'
cheese - 'nyour'

I never did work out where on earth she got the words from!

jk0

Gorgeousred wrote: »

He also went to an emergency services day at a local park once with some friends and their parents. When I went to pick him up, he marched me over to an army officer and proudly announced 'This is my sister who likes a man in uniform!' He has apparently overheard me joking with a friend about this and decided to tell everyone. I nodded politely and walked away as fast as possible.

That would be even more worrying if you were male, as I assumed up to this point.

mum2one

It was me as a child...

One of mums friend - her nickname (at our home) was sweaty doreen, I couldnt been 6 or 7, apparently I answered the phone - shouted very loudly.... mum its sweaty doreen for you....

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purpleweasel

Rev wrote: »

Years ago I went with my cousin to get her two kids some new shoes. Her son was 7 and her daughter 4. She put some shoes on her daughter and was pressing the front etc to see how they fit. She stood her daughter up and asked if she shoes hurt.

She marched over to her brother and booted him in the shin. He obviously went 'ow' and she turned to her mother and said 'Yes mum, they hurt'. And walked back.

This one made me laugh out loud at work! Made my morning, thank you

Silvercat38

swingaloo wrote: »

In a cafe passing the time waiting for the meal we played 'I spy' with little nephew.

His turn- I spy with my little eye something beginning with B.

Box, brush, bag, book and so on as he got more and more frustrated till finally we said 'Give up'.

He looked at us with complete disdain and said 'Duh, its the binegar'.

We had a similar thing with our daughter (now grown up). She was about 4 at the time, we were on a long car journey and playing I-Spy along the way. She also said something beginning with B, and after several miles of head scratching and wrong answers, we gave up.


"B-jamas", she said. Sigh. We asked where they were though, as the whole point was something we could actually see. She replied, "at home, in the washing basket" .........


This was the same journey where she later came up with F for Fresh Air.


We started to play 'count the red cars' after that, as it seemed simpler ......


For years my son called spaghetti, bus-getti, and fizzy pop, whizzy pop. We still call these foods by those names!


Another story - when the kids were little and we went on holiday, we would always find a crazy golf course somewhere and play a few rounds. Because the kiddies were very young and therefore not very good at the game, my ex-husband and I invented a new rule whereby at the end of the game, you had to add your age to your final score, and therefore the one with the lowest score won.


With me so far?


Except that we sort of forgot to tell the kids that we had made up this rule, and when my daughter was 18 she rang me, incensed, to complain that she had just played crazy golf with her student mates and had looked like a right idiot when she insisted that they added their ages to their final scores because "that's the rules!" ..... Oops.

Gorgeousred

jk0 wrote: »

That would be even more worrying if you were male, as I assumed up to this point.

Yes, looking back I probably should have stated im female!