How have your children made you laugh or embarrassed you?
By Wendy
@jerzgirl (9291)
United States
September 3, 2010 4:12pm CST
I gained a lot of weight when I had my first child. I gained more by the time I had my second. I also developed a hormone imbalance that allowed me to enjoy all the pleasures of raging hysteria once a month. My son declared one day that when he grew up, he was going to marry a skinny girl because when you get fat, you get mean. What could I do but laugh?
Another time while walking in the mall with my then younger son, no siblings yet, a mall cop walked past us - a rather rotund mall cop. My son, using all the power his little lungs could provide in his youthful baritone voice (called a "whiskey voice" by my mother) declared, "Look at that cop, Mom! He's even fatter than you!!"
Now, as we were told by OUR parents, what goes around comes around, right?
My son is now a father of three. He, his wife and youngest child (different mothers) have moved in with me and my daughter because of financial circumstances. Today, they were both showering together when their daughter had to use the potty. She knew her mother was showering, but didn't know Daddy had joined her. She goes in the bathroom after asking if it was OK, and realizes that there are two people in the shower. She asks, "Who's in there with you? Is Daddy in there? Oh, hi Daddy! Mommy...are you in front or in back?"
No one said a word - you know - you could hear a pin drop. Then she declares, "You're in front!" I immediately hollered (being in the very next room that shares the heat vent and being privy to the entire conversation), "Please!! Can I post this on Facebook??? Please please please?????" We all busted up! It was a classic moment of childish innocence, all too frequently lost early on in life!! We loved it!!
So, how about you? What are your embarrassing tales to tell? What have your kids said or done that just floor you and cannot ever be replicated?
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4 responses
@bsollace (55)
• United States
4 Sep 10
that's funny. i can picture my daughter doing something like that. she sucks her thumb and was trying to ask me one night at the dinner table if she was allowed to "suck my thumb." the only problem was she used f instead of s for suck!!! i had to walk out of the room i couldnt stop laughing!
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Yeah, laughing could be a problem, for sure, on that one. They don't know it's bad, but the laughing encourages them to do it again. Wow! Tell her when she's a teenager!! 
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
3 Sep 10
Thanks for that one Jerz! And thank your son
an dil too for allowing you to post it, (they did didn't they)?
You just never know what little ones will say and it never
ceases to amaze! As you know, I don't have any of my own, but
sure have lots of "little company" from time to time! One day
I was babysitting my girlfriend's "sort of like grandson" (long
story). He was 7 at the time. He was sitting at my computer
and I was cleaning something in the kitchen when all of a sudden
he says to me in a very serious grownup voice "Woman, make me
some breakfast!". I turned around and looked at him and asked
him what he just said to me and he of course repeated it in the
same tone! I asked him where he learned that from! I wasn't a
fan of his mother's to begin with and when I told my girlfriend,
who I was really doing the favor for she flipped! It was funny,
but not. I still love him and let him come over anytime he
wants!
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@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
4 Sep 10
She's actually fine, Opal. I just answered her email. Did you know she's lost 37 lbs??? Isn't that fantastic?? She's been having a lot of hectic things happening in her life of one form or another and getting some straight "for me" time has been difficult. Shoot her a PM. I'm sure she'll answer you!
And, no, I didn't ask permission to post this, but showed my son after I did. No one here knows them to be approaching them to say anything. I'm not too worried about it since I also embarrassed myself by telling what Paul said about me! LOL
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@PurpleTeddyBear (6685)
• Canada
7 Sep 10
My 4 year old hasn't really done a lot to embarrass me, but she has done a few things to embarrass my poor husband in public. We were in Walmart one day and it was packed as they had some kind of sale going on, or it was close to a holiday, or maybe a weekend ... I'm not sure of the specifics of that sorry but anyways we had gone for supper before we went to Walmart to do our grocery shopping and my hubby was getting gassy from supper. We were waltzing along and my hubby had to fart, it was a silent one but all of a sudden my daughter pipes up nice and loud and says, "Daddy you stink like poop have a shower!" I busted a gut laughing and my husband did too because I don't think guys embarrass as easily as women do, or maybe he saw the humour in it too I don't know! I know that if it were me I would have gone every shade of red and wanted to crawl under a rock and die somewhere!
@shame_ferdez (36)
• Philippines
3 Sep 10
hi, it seems you have been enjoying at the many events in your life. These are treasured moments and it will remain in your heart in the years to come. I can't share any tales of our innoncence though, but we sure did have those too, however I have to ask first if its okey.
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