Went to a local shopping complex early this morning with the boys. Walking home we passed a dwarf. We passed him and I thought I'd got away with my brutally honest 3 year old not making a comment... until at the top of his longs he shouted "Mummmy!? Why is that man that size!?". I was mortified. After we got out of earshot I told him that people come in all different shapes, sizes and colours and that it's good to be different as it makes us all interesting.

Just wondering if anybody else has had any equally embarassing moments with their children?

@ennui At least he didn't call him a "baby man"..lol I was about 3 when I saw my first dwarf in Walmart & my mom said I got super excited & was like "mommy look a baby woman!"

My daughter noticed a black man in the check out line. She yelled "LOOK AT THE CHOCOLATE MAN MOM" My other daughter was about three when she said "Mommy we cant get to the cereal that lady is taking up the whole aisle."

I think you should have said it within earshot so that the person knew that you were raising a tolerant accepting child :) No need to be ashamed--kids ask questions and it's the answers that count.

My brother has two boys, ages 3 and 4. They had taken the boys out to dinner and their four year old, in the middle of the restaurant, looks at my sister inlaw and screams, "Mommy, do you have a penis?!?!"

;-D

i don't have kids, but i frequently experience small children asking their parents rather loudly if i am a boy or a girl due to my short hair. the parents look mortified at me, but i know kids are just curious and mean no harm. i usually ask them to guess what they think i am and they'll grin and say girl once they hear me speak, or if they're cheeky they say boy lol.

actually the most hilarious interaction i've had with a kid was at work. i was serving his dad and the kid had a little gun that shoots bubbles. the kid's like "i have to kill the predators dad!" the dad's all "ok, well, don't shoot the nice lady" so the kid aims right at me and starts making shooting noises. the dad was all "that's so rude, say sorry!" i looked at the kid and made the predator clicking noise haha. the kid's face lit up and he was like "i knew she was a predator!". funniets kid ever.

awwww! that is so cute! =D funny little boy! hehehe

I love you so much ;D

I remember once when my nephew was younger, his dad came home from work with a really dark sun tan (he's mexican, so when he gets REALLY tan, he looks like he's black), and my nephew hadn't seen him the whole weekend because he had stayed at my house. His dad was walking up his driveway and my nephew ran to meet him.

When he was walking back up the driveway holding my nephew, my nephew says (outloud in front of all the neighbors) "Dad, you look like a nigger!"
My brother-in-law of course thought it was absolutely hilarious.
My sister on the other hand, called and cussed out my dad for saying that word in front of him.

I was in walmart with my 4 year old and 1 year old getting an extra key made for the house. The nice guy behind the counter that was helping us was a pretty "hefty" black man. He had helped us before and remember me so he was making conversation while the lady made the key. He started talking to JR(my 4 year old) asking him how old he was ect. Jr all of the sudden goes....YOUR BLACK! I was like OMG! the guy goes Im what? Im wack? (since thats the way it came out due to his speech)! I didnt know what to do...I smiled and said thanks then got the heck outta there...

Oh and Jr's new thing...telling people that they are fat...Im like wtheck kid!

OHHHH KIDS!

i've got one from when i was a child & my mom still cringes to this day about it! ;D

i was on a bus with my mom, about three/four years old & i seen a woman with dreadlocks on the seats infront of us....i asked my mom out loud why the womans hair was so horrible & knotty & suggested that she bought a hairbrush!
apparently the woman didn't look too amused with my advice ;D

Years ago, after I had just come out my little brother was asked by a day care teacher if i had a job & he simply replied with "YEAH! She's a lesbian. That means she doesn't let boys sleep in her bed"
my nephew thinks that when someone uses "gay" in place of stupid or dumb it is a personal attack on him & the fact that he has two aunties. He doesn't have any problem getting in someone's face and yelling "THAT IS NOT GAY, MY AUNTIES ARE!"
we thought it would stop over time, but two years later he still corrects people.

Lol! That's awesome. Kudos to him hehe

One day when my daughter was about 3 or so her dad and I were walking through the mall. We passed by this man who had an eye patch on. Belle curls her pointer finger to look like a hook and goes Arrrrrrgh lmfao! Thank you, Spongebob!

Along the same lines. We were eating supper at KFC and my youngest saw a man who had a hook for a hand. He goes "mommy, why doesn't that man take that hook off"

When my cousin Tyler was like 3 years old. He took a poop in my grandpa's front yard.

haha.. when my Sisterinlaw was little.. her, my husband and their dad was in an elevator when someone farted (supposedly no one knew who did it).. she turns to my fatherinlaw and said "DAD YOU FARTED!" .. bhahaha my fatherinlaw bout died.

my husband used to ride in the buggy at the store and hit women on their ass as they walked by.. bhaha typical male

my daughter hasnt done anything yet.. she's only 15 months old.. give her time :)

Can't really think of any of other kids, but I got some for when I was a kid. xD When I was little I was at a convenience store or something with my mom. I grew up in a 3 language household: my parents would speak Mandarin or Taiwanese to me and I'd usually answer back in English (this is important to the story). Now I could say words in both Mandarin/Taiwanese but it wasn't till I was older that I could hold actual conversations so I'd sprinkle in Mandarin/Taiwanese words in my mainly English sentence. Well at the store (I was prob. around 3) we were walking and there was a wet spot on the floor. I point to it and went, "dum dum!" which is pretty much means "wet" in Taiwanese. Unfortunately for me... there was an employee right there and she got pissed that I was apparently calling her dumb. XD My mom was quick to explain that no, I was saying the floor was wet. XD

Also apparently when I was a kid? I'd pull my hair out when I got mad. I apparently didn't have the words to express my anger... so I'd just pull my hair out. And like massive clumps too, not 1 or 2 strands. There's pics of me as a toddler with bald spots. XD

This is so embarrassing.. But oh well!! Ok.. one morning after dropping of my 6 year old at school, my mother in law asked my 2 year old son, "Do you wanna go to McDonalds for breakfast?" He said "yeah!" So we went on our merry way to McDonalds.. We asked him what he wanted and he said Pancakes!!" We ordered and waited in line.. My son started giggling and I asked him what was so funny and he was like "my wenis(we-nuss) is getting bigger b.c I'm getting pancakes!!!" I had this blank look on my face! So my mother in law asked him again and he was like "I toll u.. My wenis is getting BIGGGGG b.c I'm getting pan-cakesssss!!" So basically he got a boner for pancakes!!

HAHAHA omg I almost pissed myself from laughing so hard

@Fearless: hahaha.

I got one that'll top that.
When I was like 10-ish, when I first learned about sex; I came home from school and asked my mother (in front of most of my family, including my uber-religious grandmother) how many times she's had sex.

Don't ask me why, I don't have an answer. I cringe at myself for it.

lmfao Nat omg that's too funny but yes I agree taht would be embarrassing. OMG I'm loling hahhaah

LOL!! Oh my God, how embarassing for you... but how funny!! Brilliant.

@Jellz: hahahahha oh em gee!! That's about as bad as my mom & aunt talking about k.y "his & hers" personal lube during a family dinner!! I was like "whyyyy are you guys talking about this NOW!?!"

Oh this one time we took a day trip to Santa Barbara,CA.. We went to The Mission and we were walking the "Stations of the Cross" garden.. And what do I see outta the corner of my eye!?! My son peeing in the Holy garden! Thank God no one was around to see him except my parenst! I was freaking out & my parents were like "when you gotta go, you gotta go!!" -eye roll- so not ok!

@theresa: u know all the crazy stuff Ry does from FB!! He's insane!

I used to work at a children's center so there are a few of them... When I first started one of the kids made an astute observation--"You're fat. But not as fat as the other lady." X_x; The kid was only like 3 or 4