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    The 10 Most Humiliating Things My Kids Have Said in Public

    by Charlotte Hilton Andersen, REDBOOK

    Compassion, kindness, respect for diversity, politeness, honesty, an understanding of basic anatomical functions-all good things I've tried to instill in my children over the years and all things that have backfired horribly in public, much to my embarrassment. No matter how skilled we are as parents, the Public Child Outburst happens to all of us. It's the one time you rue the fact that your child is such a clear speaker.

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    Here are some of my worst. Please please please tell me I'm not alone in my humiliation by sharing some of yours with me!

    1. "People just give me stuff 'cause I'm so cute." A woman in a fabric store offered my 3-year-old son a piece of candy. When I prompted him to say thank you with, "What do you say to the nice lady?" this is what my eldest came up with.

    2. "Stop making ugly faces!" My 2-year-old to a disabled person at the gym. I was mortified.

    3. "That man's belly is so big! Is he having a baby?" My 5-year-old in the checkout line at the grocery store.

    4. "Mommy, don't choke me!!!" My two-year-old son screamed this at the top of his lungs when I leaned in to take away a box of candy he'd pulled off the shelf at the store. For the record, I have never, ever choked him or any of my children, nor threatened to. Of course that day I wanted to start...

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    5. "I threw up this morning, but mommy said not to tell you." My 4-year-old to his preschool teacher. In my defense, it was because he gagged on piece of fruit he doesn't like and made himself retch. It wasn't real puke, I swear.

    6. "Look! When I touch it, it gets all hard!" My 4-year-old son in the middle of a crowded shoe store touching... well, yeah.

    7. "Hey Mister! Do you know you have no hairs on your head?" Pretty sure he knows he's bald, sweetie.

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    8. "My mom did a photo shoot for a magazine for men!" This was my kindergartener's contribution to sharing time. Just to be clear: It was a head shot for an article I'd written for a men's fitness magazine.

    9. "I don't have any socks on today because my mom didn't do the laundry yet. My brother isn't wearing any underwear." My 8-year-old to his gym teacher. I have no defense. This one's true.

    10. "Mom! Mom! My stomach hurts so bad! I think I'm having a baby! I can feel it kicking my butt! I need to push it out!" My 4-year-old said this at the customer service counter at J.C. Penney's. I took him to the bathroom afterward where he had a very large number two.

    Charlotte Hilton Andersen is the author of The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything and writes the blog of the same name.

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    80 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  11 months ago
      hahaha, LMAO beep beep beep, too funny, Linda.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  11 months ago
      Seriously?!?!? You think a little boy can't get an erection? I have an ultrasound to prove you wrong... yep, playing it with it right there, plain as day. And yes, it's amazing how big a 4 y/o penis can get. HAHA, boys will be boys with their little toys.
    • samantha  •  1 year 0 months ago
      My then 6 year old, while going up the escalator @Neiman Marcus, Miami, during Christmas break and a very chic woman decked out in fur & jewels in front of us, "I wish that we could afford to buy a Christmas tree
      this year". First of all, I may never forget the pitiful look that woman gave me and second of all being Jewish I have no idea how that ever got into my daughter's head.
    • dsvets  •  1 year 0 months ago
      My little sweet pea had a hard time with the letter "r". We were in the checkout line and talking about dinner, to which she proudly tried to say "Mommy, I want a fork." Instead it came out as another 4 letter "f" word, to which I reasonably in a loud voice clarified with a question, "You want a FORK to eat your dinner with? She nodded yes......thankfully. So I'd have to say it's not just you. LOL!
    • cwti21  •  1 year 0 months ago
      LOL kids are awesome hahaha

      One time my husband, 4 year old daughter, 2 year old son and I were shopping at walmart. I went to the ladies dressing room to try on some bras. While in there I heard my very sociable daughter say hi to someone and introduce herself and dad and brother. Then, "my mom is in there trying on boobs." I could almost hear the skid marks as my husband hightailed it out of there! Lol
    • M  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I feel your pain...and your ability to laugh after the fact. Last week I had to take my 3 yr old to calling hours for my best friend's grandmother. While everyone was sitting in quiet reflection, my little darling pipes up at the top of his lungs "I EAT BOOGIES!" Several mourners snickered; I turned beet red and rushed him outside! To the best of my knowledge he has never eaten a boogie....and if he has, well, I'd rather not know!
    • N Campanelli  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Do you remember the ART LINKLETTER Show many many decades ago? OMG! THAT was the best. Never missed it. He always said, "Kids say the darndest Things" (don't know how to spell it or if it's even a word!! Sorry!!) Now that's a show I could watch a lot of reruns of. Out of the mouths of babes. They are so honest at that age.
    • Rena McGee  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Humiliating, yes, but also very funny.
    • It'srainingsunshine  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I must share this, I spent the day after Christmas getting a pedicure with my 6 yr old niece. She showed the lady the baby-doll I had gotten her for Christmas. The lady said "How pretty. What did yo get for your Aunt? "...My niece said. " I got her a scarf, my Mommy said she needed a man, but I couldn't find one."...I was mortified..
    • Julie E  •  1 year 0 months ago
      When my son was two, he pronounced truck with an f. Unfortunately, he really loved playing with trucks. We were also at Lowes one time buying a vacuum cleaner. The salesclerk coudln't find the barcode and was getting a little frustrated. My son blurted out, clear as day "son of a - b*****". I was mortified. Apparently he figured out the word was used with frustration.
    • S  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Lucky, please look up "mortified" in the dictionary or re-read the article more carefully.

      Erica, I have 2 sons & as others have said, they can & do get erections from infancy on.

      Funny list. I don't have anything yet, but with 2 boys, I know it's only a matter of time.
    • Habanero♥™  •  1 year 0 months ago
      He used to say Cun_s for curtains............

      Hahahahahahaha

      My girlfriend got called into school because her 5 year old son told the teacher his mom's nickname for him was ƒuckin' face.................it was pumpkin face!!!!!
    • queen  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I have a few more to add:

      We usually go to the Baptist church my father and grandfather grew up in, but my mother goes to a different church, and one sunday morning my son went with her to her sunday school class. They watched a video, and it obviously bored him. As it was ending he said "shew im glad thats over, next week im goin to the baptist church".

      He used to say Cun_s for curtains
      He also informed my next door neighbor that he knew what Pantons (tampons) were for...they go in your butt.

      When taking him to the bathroom at walmart he loudly questions if I need to poop. Another bathroom incident that involved maxi pads, was he wanted to know how I got a boo boo on my vachina. (before anyone goes nuts, what do you do with a 3 yr old in a womans bathroom, they have to go in with you)

      He asked a very pregnant woman that had the classic waddle why she was walking that way. I said "its because the baby is in her belly and its heavy"..he then replies, that is how I walk if I have to poop- is the baby coming out of her butt". Thankfully she was humored by it.
    • queen  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Kids have a way of saying things, but honestly most people are not offended by it. We have always tried to raise our son to not "notice" differences. We never sat him down and told him people were different colors, or big or small or other things, because there was no need to point that out, we are all people and he was just little at the time and we thought as he got older we would talk about those things with him. We didnt quite get how early we should have had some of those chit chats lol. My son -once after he had just started talking- saw a large burley black man in the grocery store. My son who- had been learning animals and their noises- blurts out, mommy mommy a bear and makes this grunting growl noise! I wanted to die and die quickly. I said No no he is not a bear he is a man. The man laughed a true belly laugh, he growled and tickled my son and kept laughing. He also asked a man why he was brown- a mexican man at the age of 2. So of course at that point we had to have a talk about how we all look different in some way. We had to explain why some people were in wheel chairs etc, but my son is just nosey enough he asked someone what kind of boo boo they got so they had to be in a wheel chair- the guy didnt mind and actually told him that he had been in a car wreck. He said he would rather people ask what happened than to stare or point and that children were innocent and honestly questioned things. All in all that is true. We have to teach our kids, yes, but most people are not offended by the natural wonder a child has with anything and anyone different than themselves. The main thing I remind him, is that if he has a question about something, to ask me quietly, just in case it may make the person sad or upset them. He is almost 6, and is usually very polite about such things now. Thankfully!
    • Habanero♥™  •  1 year 0 months ago
      When son # 1 was in Kindergarten soccer, I misplaced his shin guards and had to put something under his socks to protect his shins so I took the tape off two "heavy flow" Kotex pads and stuck them to his shins. Just as he was being substituted on the field he announced, not knowing what the word meant, that his, Mommy Pads were coming loose" and he pulled down his socks for the entire sidelines to view. There were grown men on their knees with tears down their cheeks.

      I was bright red!
    • Habanero♥™  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Erica I have three sons.......trust me they get boners while in diapers. While taking a bath my middle son put his pee pee in the trigger guard of his play gun..got a boner and we had a "hard" time getting it off.
    • Maggie  •  1 year 0 months ago
      LOVE #10!!!

      My kids started screaming "we're gonnaaa craaaassshhhh" On a red eye flight after some serious turbulence. Thankfully it was a red-eye and most everyone was asleep.
    • Jaime  •  1 year 0 months ago
      lmhbo,it was great reading not only the article but everybodies comments as well.I guess since my childhood was a nightmare,I already knew how powerful & hurtful ppls words can be.I then took it upon myself to instell that knowledge in my child.I let her know that she should always think before speaking(most adults don't even do that now a days),to be polite to everyone no matter their age,race,gender,appearance or what they are doing.Mainly do or say as to others as you'd like done back to you & she did kinda.She would say somethings but instead of coming out in loud busts,she'd calmly in a low voice asks me questions or make a comment & in doing so has saved us both some of your guys embarassment.My daughter(@age 4) did do #1 kinda,she said thank you first to the ice cream man & then turned around to me to say how ppl are always giving her free stuff but she didn't knw why?To which the ice cream man replied "it's cuz your so pretty just like your mommy" w/a big goofy smile at me.I turn bright red & then upset/irritated because I can't stand it when strangers(guys) flirt/hit on/hollar ect at me when I have my kid w/me.I find it rude,embarassing,disrespectful & unappropriate.I mean I've had ppl drive by yelling MILF at the top of their lungs while I'm walking w/my kid,to which she askes whats that & why were they screaming it at us?It set such a bad example for her & so since I've had to deal w/this so much my daughter who just turned 9 has playing ppl,getting whatever she wants free down(a talent she learned fr her hoe of a dad & by the all the other incidents w/me,like w/the ice cream man) to the point where I have to remind her to not ask for nothing or she will be in troble w/me later,before we go out sometimes.Idk what eles to do or say but I know that it'll be worser in a few more yrs after puberty hit & w/not the same easy simple free outcome.I'm truely worried & scared for that but don't know what to do so plz if you have any advise,I'm all open ears here.Btw I didn't know lil boys got hard,lol great something more for me to worry about.Thanks
    • Steph  •  1 year 0 months ago
      HAHAHAHA Love it. I have a 3 1/2 yr old. AND yes, kids can say the wierdest things. lol
    • MandatoryFields  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Thanks! This list really brightened up my day, especially number 2.

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