Out of the mouths of babes ...

[bobo the clown]

I'm struck by how many people here are new, or newish parents. Well, when your children are 18 & 22 I suppose newish covers quite a few of you, comparatively.

I thought I'd pass on a tip & gather some other experiences ; - as your children grow & toddle and learn to talk (16 when mine managed it, maybe I should have interacted more often) they will say some wonderful, amusing, tearjerking, amazing things.

When they do you will tell your friends & family about it. You will be so amazed that you will be certain that these words will stay with you forever. You will, however, forget many of them & only a small number will stick long-term.

My advice is to get a small notebook and write them down. I regret not doing so myself as I know I've forgotten so many.

I'll share one now & more later if the thread takes off ; -
I took my two to a permanent Dr. Who Exhibition. They were 4 & 8 & this we pre the Dr. Who rennaisance.

You could stroll through the rooms seeing monsters and costumes and dispplays of other worlds. Enter the Tardis & see clips from shows. For a modest outlay it was decent fun. There was an interactive area near the end (just before the obligatory shop) and the kids (old & young) could go inside a Dalek. From there there was a voice altering devise which meant you would sound like one when you spoke into it. There were levers to move it's 'eye' and to fire the ray-gun thingy.

My 4 yr old went in, following some others and was heard to shout "I AM A GARLIC, I AM A GARLIC " .... followed by him firing the exterminator shouting "EXCUSE ME MATE ... EXCUSE ME MATE !!"

Anyone else have any to share ?

[Lofthouse Lower]

[Gooner Girl]

I've had a fair few amusing moments working as a teacher though no doubt Jessie and Jack will give me some more. My most recent was probably the time i was listening to an 11 year old lad read and his book took a rather more risque turn and i found myself listening to a rather graphic sexual description! I quickly moved on to the next reader! Not sure who was more embarrassed... And where he got the book from!!!

[Gooner Girl]

Loving the 'excuse me mate'!!!

[LeeRoyBrown]

Hahaha

"Excuse me mate"

Maybe the Daleks have been misunderstood all this time?

[Always hopeful]

My parents tell a story of when they took my brother (who was very young at the time) on a walk around Anglezarke. He asked why there were so many lakes. They explained to him that the reservoirs were used for supplying water to homes in the North West. He then asked "so which reservoirs have the hot water in them?"

[ratbert]

There's a whole sub-thread here about the things you said yourself as a little 'un.

I remember at primary school (Roscow Fold) talking to another boy about my dad having been in the army (which he had been). I thought he'd been in the war (he hadn't, quite) to which the other lad said, "my dad was in the German army. My dad shot your dad."

So, ex-Nazis hiding out in Breightmet. Who'd have thought it?

[hisroyalgingerness]

One of my faves was a friend of the family's delightful little toddler. He was at least 2, maybe 3 at the time and the little man is very clever for his age. Little genius I think he is. Anyway, they were round ours for a party one night, enjoying themselves when the little man got fed up and felt it was time to go, and uttered an indignant phrase he's obviously been on the receiving end plenty of times, but hearing it the other way round was pure comedy:

"It's 10 o'clock!!"

[CrazyHorse]

My nephew asked why the Bolton fans were chanting that "Wayne Rooney can only score in a bottle" when we played Man U last time. Bless.

[Latham8wfc]

We were at my brother's house over Xmas, his 6 year old daughter was sat on the floor in front of us and we were talking about my brother and how he was owed money from a work colleague, anyways my niece turned around in the middle of the conversation and blurted out 'I'm very promiscuous’ to which we laughed hysterically for a few minutes, later we found out she had meant to say ‘I’m very persuasive’

That was one word I really didn’t expect a 6 year old to come out with!!

[Montreal Wanderer]

When my son was in his first year at school we went to the parent teacher interview. The teacher made us sit in my son's chair and she noted that my son seemed afraid of her. She was a large lady and from the perspective of my son's chair loomed over me huge as Asia. I could only respond I wasn't surprised (stifling the "I'm bloody terrified"). Some weeks later my son and I were sitting at a bus stop with another lady. My son asked me if she was a teacher. When I asked him why, he responded "Because she is so fat!". The bus arrived at this point but I decided not to take it.

[Gary the Enfield]

I took my (then) four year old daughter to Camelot on a trip to Bolton and we were sat in the Auditorium watching the Knight's Tourney. The Black Knight was getting the better of the Green Knight and, as he was about to deliver the killing blow with his sword, my daughter piped up in her finest cockney accent "Smash him inna face!!!!!!!"

[Raven]

My daughter at about the age of five had clearly heard Brittany Spears' record too often (not from me) but had not quite worked out the words so in the middle of Currys sang in her loudest voice "whip me baby one more time"

In Pizza hut she also managed to do the biggest burp ever only to wait a second for it to get quieter and shout, did you hear that giant burp? In the same place (another time I think), being a single parent I made a daft comment about the waitress being very cute and when she served us my daughter looked at her and turned to me and asked (again in a loud voice) "is this the cute one daddy"

She also told her grandad that she needed a tom tit once - I got a telling off for that one

A serious one and a good lesson (sure I have mentioned this before) is when she came home from nursery telling me how she had been playing with Michael that day, I could not remember who he was so asked her to describe him, she told me he had short black, curly hair, was a bit taller than her, what he was wearing, his dad was very tall with no hair etc etc. The next day I met Michael and my daughter had forgotten one thing...the colour of his skin, she did not even think that it was relevant or had not even noticed it (he was black)

[Hoboh]

That "Gooner Girl" must take responsability for these types of threads!!!

[Verbal]

A serious one and a good lesson (sure I have mentioned this before) is when she came home from nursery telling me how she had been playing with Michael that day, I could not remember who he was so asked her to describe him, she told me he had short black, curly hair, was a bit taller than her, what he was wearing, his dad was very tall with no hair etc etc. The next day I met Michael and my daughter had forgotten one thing...the colour of his skin, she did not even think that it was relevant or had not even noticed it (he was black)

Er...is it relevant?

[Raven]

Nope but its the one thing (other than being a boy) that was really different and she did not even notice it, thats my point really and proves (to me) how ridiculous racism is and clearly it something that is taught to someone and not natural.

[Bruce Rioja]

Nope but its the one thing (other than being a boy) that was really different and she did not even notice it, thats my point really and proves (to me) how ridiculous racism is and clearly it something that is taught to someone and not natural.

Ah, but had they been playing Doctors and Nurses..........................

[jaffka]

I think people wrote into viz with similar things...

[Gooner Girl]

That "Gooner Girl" must take responsability for these types of threads!!!

Huh?! Why me?!

[Lofthouse Lower]

You've gayed this place up with your roulade and such