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Toddler clangers - I could have died!

We're all proud when our babies start to talk but, as their speech develops, so does their honesty. And it's not always what we want to hear! Babyworlders share their most cringe-worthy moments when their toddlers opened their mouths!

"Daddy put his seed in mummy"

" I knew we were going to be trying for another baby in a few years, so to try and prepare my son for it I told him the birds and the bees in toddler format. We dropped him off with his Nan for the night once, and as we walked out the door he shouted, 'Dad, don't forget to put your seed in Mummy tonight!'. Eeeekkkk. When I did finally get pregnant, he went around telling everyone 'My Dad put his seed in Mummy' with a really smug look on his face." Claire

Why is that lady so fat?

"The worst one my son ever did was last year when we were sitting on a bus. A very large lady sat right in front of my son, who pointed directly at her and said very loudly, 'Mum, why is this lady so fat?'. The woman next to me could barely stifle her laughter and I went scarlet with shame and tried to distract him with something out of the window. The rest of the journey was very uncomfortable I can tell you!" Anna

"Don't give up your day job"

When my nephew was very little, I took him to the vet with me to check on our old cat. The vet was examining puss, who was scared and yowling, and my nephew said to the vet, 'You're not very good at this are you?'. Thankfully, the vet had a good sense of humour and told my nephew that, no, he wasn't very good, he'd only had 20 years' experience!" Jan

"Mum's a cokehead"

"Rachael came out with my most embarrassing moment on the bus. (I must state that at the time I drank a lot of diet Coke.) My husband is an audio engineer and, therefore, into speakers big time. After hearing daddy describe himself as a 'speakerhead', Rachael said 'You're a cokehead, aren't you mummy?' at full volume. I was so embarrassed I didn't know where to put my face!" Steph

"There are hookers on this bus!"

"That reminds me of another with my son on the bus! The bus was packed and people were standing up, holding onto the straps that hang down from the ceiling, when Harry shouts out very loud, 'There are hookers on this bus!'. People turned round to see what was going on and it was only afterwards I found out he meant the 'hooks' hanging down for people to hold on to!" Anna

Too much honesty

"We were on the bus and I realised my mum hadn't given me any money for my brother's bus fare. He had just turned five the week before so I told him to say he was four when he was on the bus because mummy forgot his pennies. We were sat there and an old lady was sat opposite. He told her it was his birthday last week and when the lady asked how old he was he proudly (and very loudly announced ) 'Well I'm 5 really but I've got to be 4 on the bus so my sister doesn't have to pay for me'!" Suzanne

"She was trying to be nice"

"Isobel, 3, went through a phase of calling people fat, not nastily but just saying, 'She's fat isn't she mum?'. We kept trying to explain that people might be sad if they heard her say that, so it's best not to mention it. The following week, we went to the hairdresser's and my hairdresser is a large lady. We walked in and Isobel said, 'She's not fat is she mum?'. It did make me smile - she was trying to be nice!" Wendy

"Everyone knew about my husband's vasectomy"

"After my husband had his vasectomy, he had to tell our oldest daughter to be careful around him 'cos he had a sore pee-pee. Next day, we took the kids to nursery and Ellie told the carers, in front of some other mums, 'Daddy's got a sore pee-pee'. Another mum said 'You can't tell them anything!' I turned up at lunch to collect them and the girls casually told me Ellie had told everyone in the nursery and they were all having a right good laugh! How embarrassing!" Jill

"They asked to see my boogies!"

"I don't have kids but once, when I was looking after my friend's boys, aged 2 and 4, one of them embarrassed me immensely. We were walking to the shop and had to pass a big building site. It was a hot sunny day so all the builders had their tops off. As we walked by, Luke yelled out, nice and loud in a quiet village, 'I can see that man's boogies!' (his word for boobies). I was mortified, especially as all the men started laughing and asking to see my 'boogies'! I ran into the shop with the boys, then spent ages looking at sweets, dreading having to walk back past them to get home! When we came out, they were all still laughing and waved when we walked by, Luke grinning and waving back!' Aly

"He showed me his erection"

I was in a posh clothes shop in Liverpool called Kids Cavern and my son was two at the time. I was at the counter paying for something and my son said 'Look mummy, I've got a big willy'. He had pulled his trousers and pants down and had an erection! I was gobsmacked! Luckily the shop assistant just laughed. I pulled his trousers up and told him that it's not nice to get your willy out when you're shopping. For the next few weeks when we went to town I made sure he had dungarees on! Lieb

"My mum has never forgiven me"

"When I was about 3, my mum was in the bathroom for a while. I kept asking her what she was doing and she kept saying 'I'm on the toilet'. Then I kept asking her what she was doing on the toilet and she finally answered 'I'm doing a jobby'. Anyhow, the doorbell went and I answered it (I should have known better!) and a young, gorgeous salesman was at the door. He asked if my mummy was home and I replied, just as my mum came into earshot/view, 'She's on the toilet doing a jobby'. My mum has never forgiven me!" Sus

Tesco troubles

"We try to be quite open with our daughter and she sees us in the nude in the bathroom etc. A few years ago, (she must have been about 3), she announced to everyone in the queue at Tesco's, 'My daddy has got a really big willy you know". I died. She has also announced, whilst sitting in the shopping trolley, that she enjoys eating her bogeys because they taste nice. And then, not long after I got pregnant with her little sister, we did the birds and bees thing. She then announced to a pregnant lady we walked past in town at the top of her voice, 'I know what you've been doing!'."

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