Out of the mouths of babes . . .

[purple_magada]

I think I've created a monster. LOL My 4-year old is on a health kick. Not only does he see how I eat and exercise, but he is also learning about nutrition and healthy eating at daycare. So everything that he is about to eat he needs to find out first if it is healthy.

On Friday night we took him to a carnival and I NEVER say anything about overweight people. But wow, I've never seen so many obsese (not just people with a few lbs to lose but obsese) people in one place. So my son (in his loudest voice of course) sees some rather obsese people sitting at a picnic table with an entire pizza, says, "Look Mommy, those people look like they have been eating way too much food". I'm sure that they heard him and I told him that it was not a polite thing to say. But wow, he sure is observant for a 4 year old.

 

[buffettgirl]

LOL. But embarassing for you...

I hope he continues on the road you have him started down.

 

[merrybaker]

Oh my !!! My little 4 year old does the same .Get this if he sees a old old guy . He will say "Gees Mom ,he's grumpy " Or " hes mean" I ask him why he thinks this "Cuz,all those wrinkles he has"x(

 

[haydee]

How well do I know about "out of the mouth of babes".

My oldest daughter embarrassed me so badly twice in public, I just wanted to fall in a hole or something.

Once when she was about 3-4? we were on the bus and it stopped by a liquor store, she asks what's that..and I said that's a liquor store, she wanted to know who drinks liquor and I said only bad people drink liquor, she turned around and pointed directly at this man, who was probably in his 70's and said (loudly) he drinks liquor?.....I just grabbed her little hand and said no and it's not polite to point. Of course I had to apologize to the older man x(.

Then another time, same child, about 10, kept staring at this person on the train. Now this person was sitting directly across from us. I said Mesha stop staring. And when the person got up to get of their stop, and before the train could come to a full halt, she was still staring and (once again, loudly) asked is that a man or a woman? Only thing I could do was turn my head. What made it more embarrassing, we were right next to the door so I'm pretty sure he heard her x(.


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[Agzo]

Wow these stories are so funny. Haydeee I was at work when I read this and actually had to cover my mouth when I read the about the liquor store because I laughed so hard. I know I did stuff like this and it embarassed my parents and I never thought it was that big a deal or that loud, but think back I'm sure it must have been. Children are priceless.

~Angel

 

[robin4health]

Thanks for sharing your stories! It makes me wonder what my little one is going to do in the years to come! Oh the excitement they bring into our lives! Aren't they great!

 

[hippahips]

There are certain words I ban from our household, like “stupid”. I’ve made my son understand that it’s a “bad” word and hurts people’s feelings. But you know, they pick up things from playmates and TV. I let my son watch only Nickelodeon, Disney, PBS Kids and Animal Planet, (Cartoon Channel is too eroded by meaningless cartoons like Ed, Edd and Eddy, and ones that are full of too much fighting, like Kids Next Door). Anyway, he still managed to learn “idiot” and “fatso” or “fattie”, other words I never use.

We were at Chili’s once (he was about 3) when he said to me, “Look Mom, to your left.” Actually, he meant my right, his left. “There’s a fattie,” he said. I looked at his father who was sitting next to him and across from me. All color had been drained from his face, and I swear I must’ve looked the same. I glared at my boy, but he took that glare as confusion on my part, and he said it again, “Look Mom, there’s a fattie next to you.” The music in Chili’s as well as the hum of the lunch crowd drowned his voice a bit, but we were still sitting right next to the person he was referring to, and there was a big possibility that she heard it. Later, I told him that what he did was rude, and he said, “But I was telling the truth.” Ouch! So I said simply, “Well, sometimes the truth hurts, so we keep quiet to avoid hurting anyone.” I don’t know how much of that sank in. Probably very little. There are still times when he points out “fat” people on TV, and every time, I have to remind him about not using that hurtful f-word.

And there was that time a few months ago at Wal-Mart where I told him that I’d forgotten to include toilet paper in my grocery list, and I wanted him to remind me since I usually get distracted by other thoughts, like what to get for dinner. Well, the kid did remind me, and as we walked down the TP aisle, he said, loud enough for anyone within a 20-foot radius to hear, “MOM, IF WE RUN OUT OF TOILET PAPER, WE WON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO WIPE OUR BUTTS WITH!” Everyone on that aisle turned to me. Some of them were smiling and swallowing laughter. I calmly took the brand I needed, put it in the cart, rolled away from there in as dignified a matter as I could muster, and laughed my @$$ of once we were out of earshot. What’s the use getting mad? It was funny.

Pinky

 

[kathryn]

>And there was that time a few months ago at Wal-Mart where I
>told him that I’d forgotten to include toilet paper in my
>grocery list, and I wanted him to remind me since I usually
>get distracted by other thoughts, like what to get for dinner.
>Well, the kid did remind me, and as we walked down the TP
>aisle, he said, loud enough for anyone within a 20-foot radius
>to hear, “MOM, IF WE RUN OUT OF TOILET PAPER, WE WON’T HAVE
>ANYTHING TO WIPE OUR BUTTS WITH!”

ROFLMAO!:7

 

[amyg]

Actually laughed out loud at the TP story. I think you handled it the best way possible!!

The other great thing? Soon, he'll be a teenager and you can tell his friends this same story and embarass him right back!!