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 Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:22 am
I saw this game on another site and thought it would be fun to adapt it to here.
Basically how it goes is someone starts a situation with something like "my child just asked if Mrs. White, our neighbor who was standing there, when her baby was due. She is 75 and a little "chubby" around the middle but definitely not pregnant. And then someone else responds with something they think would have been appropriate. I was laughing at some of the situations until I was almost crying! They said about 95% of the situations had acatually occured to them or a close friend/family member. I had to admit a lot were awfully close to experiences I had had with my own 5 children!
How about starting out with one that happened to my mother-in-law?
Her oldest child was probably about 3 or 4 when this happened. My husbands father loved to sing and perform in theater settings and it was the 1950's when Al Jolson was somewhat popular with his songs where he applied black make-up to his face and sang songs like "Mammy."
When my mother-in-law and her daughter (who was very blond and blue-eyed) got on a bus for downtown and the daughter noticed a young black man on the bus and quite loudly asked if that was "Daddy".
I think it would be different in the new century, but in the 1950's there was just silence and black looks and my mother-in-law didn't say anything - she was so surprised and took a while to figure out why her daughter would even be thinking along those lines!
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:40 pm
This doesn't really apply to your story as much but just as to crazy things kids say. I don't have saying stories from my kids yet since my 1 year old is still adding to her vocabulary and my 1 month old still has some time before he starts getting me into trouble. A particularily jarring moment for my sister though was when my mother/my nephew's grandmother was visiting after about 3 months of not visiting. My nephew ran up to my mother and greets her with "Grami!!! I thought you were dead!" My sister's face went beat red and she quickly started apologizing to my mom and telling her son we don't stay things like that. My mom however was laughing the whole time.
Also when I was little I remember once at church the pastor was commenting on one of the deacon's nice full head of hair (sarcastically) and I was maybe 4 at the oldest and I said very loudly, "But Mommy he doesn't have any hair!" Everyone in the church looked at us and my mom had to try and explain sarcasm later. I think the honesty of children is one of the wonders of parenthood, though it often does get Mommy and Daddy in trouble.
Anyone have any cute tales of this brutal level of honesty "from the mouths of babes?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:07 am
That is a choice one! I think the one all my children managed to get me with was when they were differientiating between what the meaning of "dad" and "boy" was. There were many 16 to 18 year old baggers that were caught off guard who blushed quite red when they were pointed at and the word "dad" was used instead of "boy." My oldest daughter also embarrassed me when she called the next-door-neighbor's house the "Cat House" because they owned 2 kitties.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:52 pm
Aw that is super cute about the confusion of Dad and Boy! And rofl about the Cat House. I am sure my kids will pay me back many times over the years to come for me embarassing my parents. Isn't the cycle just wonderful lol. smile
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:58 am
I think that is when parents who have had those experiences help the rest of us remember that "we are not the only ones who..."
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