[Shay]

What has been your most embarrassing moment as a parent? I have seen some examples on another thread. Anyone have any that we could all learn by and keep watch out for?

I haven't had that yet as Daria is still a little young. Well I say that and I guess she could have a major "blowout" at the wrong time.

I would love to hear about yours.

[leeinmemphis]

Yesterday our oldest son Timothy went for his kindergarten testing at a private, religious school... I include all that info to set up the story...

We go into a conference room and the teacher asks us to sit at each end of the table and then she tells him to sit on his bottom (i never use that term so i said "now Tim, sit on your booty" so he did). Then the two teachers took out some flashcards and there was a rabbit on one of them so Tim says "thats a rabbit... and thats the rabbits booty as he points at it"

THEN he says "where's the rabit's pen*s"... I thought i would die right there! the room was totally silent and then the teacher said "well, he would do well on an anatomy test!"

alli

[Shay]

Alli, OMG!!! I would have crawled under the table. Kids are so funny and they don't even realize some of the things they say are very embarrassing for their parents.

Too funny at your expense. LOL

[waitinginnj]

I brought my daughter home in October. In November, I brought my daughter and three nephews to get a Christmas picture done - all of the grandchildren. I didn't realize how stressful pictures were.

We got through the picture thing, pulled the boys out of the toy store and I brought the kids to the pizza parlor, while we waited the hour for the pictures. I got all four settled in - pizza, soda, napkins etc.

All of my sudden, my five year old nephew says as loud as he can, "Now that C is home from Russia, when are you going to adopt her Daddy!?!"

The place was packed with Christmas shoppers and everyone turned around to look at us. I think I had made enough of a scene trying to get all four settled and really wasn't ready to handle all of the additional stares. Some people even started pointing.

[Vicki H]

We were in church Alex was about 10 1/2 months old at the time. I was giving Alex a bottle during the mass, it was extremely quiet and Alex let out the loudest burp I have ever heard.
Everyone in church turned around and started laughing. It wasn't like he could blend in either ,it was the day of his baptism so he stuck out in his white christening outfit.

Not too major yet. I am sure there is worse to come from my little stripper.


Vicki

[GCS]

OMG! That could be Sam! My FIL thought he was being funny and drew a pen*s on one of the chili peppers on the Chili's children's menu. Now Sam wants to draw them on everything he thinks is a boy. "Is this horse a boy? Where's his pee-pee? Sam will draw!" I've been ignoring it thinking that it will not be so interesting if there is no audience.
Yesterday Sam went to visit a pre-school he will be attending next year. He farted fairly loudly and then said "Oh, that was a Sylvester kaka." Sylvester is our cat and my darling hubby has taught Sam that we blame our farts on him. I dont think any one else really understood what he said, but I just started giggling and couldnt stop so Sam was giggling. I am sure that the pre-school teacher thinks we're nuts. Just wait till next year when he's drawing pen*s's on the boy animals. Then we'll get called in for a parent-teacher conference for sure!
Christina

[Vicki H]

OMG Waiting. Out of the mouthes of babes...LOL.


Vicki

[Shay]

GCS, how funny!! I couldn't imagine looking over at dinner and seeing my ds drawing a pen*s on something. I wonder what Daria has in store for me!!!! LOL

[regalroy]

Can you imagine....everyone else's is so funny.
My son can't take a candy bar from a store, or something simple, oh no!
I come home, and empty his back pack, and find a key ring. I start looking at them, and it is dawning on me.
I call the school frantic, (new kid in school from Russia), and tell them I am on my way back with my son and a key ring.
He had taken the keys to around 8-12 classrooms.
I thought I was going to faint. We now do a light pat down after school everyday. Someday we will all laugh

[skgreen]

This is off topic, but I PM'd you the other day Shay about AAi since I am using them too. Don't know if you got it or not. PM me when you get a chance, Thanks

[dlhall]

I was at my doctor's office with my daughter standing in line waiting to check out with the receptionist. Natalya looking around the waiting room spotted two African-American men. She turns to the one standing closest and pointing to the other man asks, "Are you two brothers?" He says no. She continues, "But why not you're both black?" I could have died in embarrassment. I told the man sorry and Natalya to be quiet, but she kept going asking really loudy why she had white skin and they had black skin and why they weren't brothers etc. etc. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Liz

[Abdulina]

Well, with 5 kids there is always something happening and usually it entails embarrasment. Won't even dive into the vault of things but just go with this past week. (we call our home "chaos manor" for a reason) Anyway, this past week we had another post placement visit & a social worker who brought an intern w/ her. They've obviously known us for years anyway & always expect the unexpected at our house. Remember we have a son who is FAS/ADHD. We locked all the tools up the night before. Keep in mind, our social worker should work for OSHA. Our son came in while we were being interviewed, and walked by w/ a saw that looked like a dismembering saw and a hammer in the other hand. I thought they were both (the social workers) going to pass out. Now, we always let our son build stuff w/ tools anyhow--he's 10 and can handle it. But don't let on to them that we do. Low and behold as we explain to him that we don't play w/ tools unsupervised he continues to deny that claim and say but you always let me build by myself. The one time the kid couldn't lie!--urghh.

One of the other many things that happened last week was we go to YMCA soccer & they sing a song. Part of it goes gray squirrel, gray squirrel shake your bushy tail. My children sing gray squirrel song everywhere but instead of saying bushy they always say booty. The looks we get when they sing gray squirrel, gray squirrel, shake your booty tail. Kids.

The other thing was our youngest two like to kid around at in-opportune times. I was shopping at Walmart and waiting for meat to be cut. My 4yo son decided he should twist my 6yo son's leg completely around while he was in the cart. Yes, he starts screaming & fake crying and people are looking at me in horror, especially, after I yell at the boys. I saw the look in the people's eyes and knew what they were thinking. So, pulled up his pants leg and showed them the prosthetic. See, I had hit his leg as he was "crying" to make him stop. He can't feel it obivously. The two boys like to play tricks on people like that;, Drives me nuts.

We've learned to look away over the years. Can't wait for the embarrassing teen years--yikes!!! These few instances were just from a week at our house.

Love this thread.

Stephanie-- 5 kiddos home--???more to go (working on hubby for #6--LOL)

[papedge]

I LOVE this thread I am crying from giggling so much I read parenting all the time and it as a section in about this stuff they call it the funny things kids say you all should send yours in Emery never really says anything like this we will be in line at the store and always talks to the person behind us and now he tells people this is my hand ( as points to the hand) not my testicals..................

[Vicki H]

This really isn't embarassing since we were at home, but I can only imagine if he is saying stuff like this at home what will happen in public.
Last night after Alex's bath I had him sitting on the changing table to get him dressed. As I am taking his PJs out of a drawer he starts yelling Mommy look, I simply say what am I looking at as I am turning around he is grabbing himself and yells my pen*s.
He asked me one time what it was and I told him, maybe I shouldn't have told him the actual name, but I was never one for the silly names that people call body parts so I was honest. Kids do not forget a thing.
Hope he never yells this in public...LOL


Vicki

[MamaTo6]

This thread is too cute. I was divorced and the mommy to 5 kids under 6 years of age. I finally had a date, my first one since being single again. I was excited and nervous, and scared silly that 5 kids would scare the crap out of my date. The man came to pick me up and we sat in my living room for a few minutes while I gave the sitter last minute instructions. I was so glad the kids were being quiet in their room and hadn't run to the door to see who was knocking. Before we left for the date, I called my kids out to say good bye to me. Out they came.... skating!!! They had been in my room and had stuck sanitary napkins to their socks and were skating on them on our freshly waxed floors. I almost died right there on the spot.