Has your child ever innocently said or done something that caused you great embarrassment?

Question

Yesterday my 5 year old son and I were watching our older kids swim at the pool. A cute little black kid was standing in the line for the diving board and my son exclaimed, "Look, Mom! A monkey!" When I realized who he was pointing to, I quickly told him, "No, there's only boys and girls in the pool, silly!"

Of COURSE, the child's mother was sitting two seats away from me. I wanted to crawl under a rock.

She was pretty cool about it, and even laughed to put me at ease. She asked if my son was in day care, and I said no, I'm a stay-home mom. She smiled and assured me that things would get better with time and exposure to other kids. VERY cool woman.


Do you have a story like this? And how did you respond?

Answer 1

When my middle son was about 4 he walked up to his new step parents to be and said "Hi, my name is Rusty and I have a freckle on my pee pee". Yikes I was really trying to make a good impression. Thank goodness they laughed and laughed and if nothing else it broke the tension. It has become one of our favorite family stories. I would like to say that was the only time my boys, I have 3 of them, have embarrassed me in the 23 years but it would not be true. I am so glad the other mom was so understanding there are a lot of small minded people out there that would have made a big deal and tried to shame your child.

Answer 2

lol, these stories are great. kids are fabulous at embarassing parents without even realising.
My 4 yr old son and I were out recently having lunch in a restaurant, im very pregnant and he decided during lunch was the time to"question" me about the baby. VERY loudly he says " how did the baby get in your tummy?" *total silence from the rest of the diners, then a few giggles*, mr 4 realises he has an audience then....
loudly again " Did Shel put the baby in your tummy?" *more giggles, im growing redder and trying to slide under the table*, even louder still " DID HE PUT IT DOWN YOUR THROAT???",
by this point im wishing the floor would open up, and even the people in the kitchen are laughing...... After we got home I explained babys to him....gosh i was embarassed!

Answer 3

When I was little I had a problem understanding the difference between the letters L and Y (for example, I would say Lellow instead of Yellow) so when I learned to read this became a slight problem. One day my mother took me to a yard sale and I was in the "read everything out loud" stage. So I see the sign and say really loud "Look mom! It's a LARD SALE" and the worst part is the lady at the table selling things was really overweight

Answer 4

This is about my, not my child (err--- that is to say, I dont' have children.) But these stories are pretty tame.

I had a dog when I was younger. And I suppose my mother, or someone, explained to me how to tell it was a boy dog. Fine and dandy right? Uh huh. Well, my mom, dad, and I were at my Grandma's house. I said excitedly "Grandma I have a boy dog! Do you know how to tell it's a boy?!" And I proceded to explain. My grandma was cool with it, my mom was cool with it! My dad? He wanted to just melt into the floor.

There was also an incident when my mom explained to me what a bounced check was. She hadn't actually written one, but I asked what it was. So we were in the Supermarket one day, and at the check out line I asked "MOM! You're not going to write one of those bad checks are you?"

And lastly, this is very mild... I was at the Supermarket with my mommy, and I was walking and there was a lady in my way (I think my mother told me she was older). So, why I couldn't walk around her I don't know... But I said "Out of the way boogie butt!"

My mother too this mostly in stride. She might have been a little embarassed, but not too bad.

Answer 5

not my child but my 4 yr old sister did. On the 4th of july she wanted me to go swimming with her but i really wasnt feeling up to it and the only excuse i could think of was i was on my period, which wasnt true, but i figured it would work so i told her i has a secret about why i couldnt swim. She came over and i explained to her i was "bleeding from my lady parts" and couldnt get blood in the pool. Next thing i know she is running around telling all my family and my friends and my parents friends and just every one (they had a huge blow out party for the forth with all these people i did know and didnt know) Telling them all Sarah is bleeding from her "Who-who" It was rather imbarassing.

She will also walk up to any woman ( or man) with quisky (bigger) breasts and just squeeze them with both hands and just go boobie boobie!!

Answer 6

I took my son, then 4 for a hair cut. They found bugs in his hair and thought it lice so stopped cutting. He had been playing in hay... not sure what it was, but treated it for lice and my sister finished the hair cut.

The next time I took him in... to a different shop, I sat in the front waiting. As they washed his hair in the sink in the back I heard he speak over the running water LOUDLY!! Last time they washed my hair, the lady put bugs into it.. my mom was really mad! You never saw a lady run through a hair place as quickly as I did that day with all eyes upon her!

MANY years later it still makes me laugh.

Answer 7

I worked as a Teacher's Aid at our local school and during Show and Tell my daughter mentioned to the class that I didn't have any nightgowns. She overheard my husband and I talking at breakfast that morning and I told my husband that I needed a new one and was going to stop at Walmart and get one on my way home from work. We got a lot of giggles out of it and by afternoon it was all over school.

Answer 8

YES! I was trying to pass the time during a long wait at a rental car store with my 5 yr old niece. We were playing that "i spy with my little eye" game. She was describing typical things like posters and plants for me to guess when an extremely obese man walked in. She says LOUDLY, " I spy with my little eye, something that is big, fat, round, tall, and....." I promptly cut her off as the man spun around to glare at me before he walked away. I told her " Honey its not nice to talk about people like that. You probably hurt his feelings." Near tears, she says, " But I was describing a tree!"

Answer 9

My mother in law kept my son when he was small while I worked. She had a fenced in yard with trees all over and let him pee in the yard when he was playing. One day we went to the park for a city-wide celebration. And, you guessed it. He pulled it out in a packed park and took care of business. As soon as I saw what he was doing I told my mother in law that it was her fault for letting him do it at her house and for her to deal with it and then walked away. I was worse than embarrassed.

Answer 10

I don't have one like that. When my daughter first started talking but wasn't completely understood, I could have swore she was saying "fuckie" all the time. Well one day I was watching dora with her and she pointed at a frog and said it. I was relieved. MY mother in law had it worse though. My daughter went with her and she kept saying "mammaw, where fuckie?" She was asking her grandma where her frog was. My mother in law had to inform everyone that she was looking for her stuffed frog that she left in her car.