I started talking early, when I was about 14 months old (and my family claims I haven’t shut up since). I picked up on everything I heard, and my mom caught me saying, “Damn!” as a curse when something went wrong. My mom explained that “damn” was a bad word, and it wasn’t something I should be saying. She said, “You can say something else instead, like ‘Aw, nuts!’ or ‘Rats!’.” About a week later, my parents took my little sister and I with them to a restaurant. During the meal, I knocked something over (my mom can’t remember what) and I yelled out “Oh, rats’ nuts!” She said that she and my dad started laughing so hard that they couldn’t finish their meal and had to leave!

Many years ago my sister and my nephew Trace were in a Duncan Donuts and there was a little person in there also up at the counter and my sister said Trace got this big-eyed look on his face and was squirming and tugging on his mom’s pants and pointing at the little person. My sister was trying to shush from saying anything out loud about the little person’s small stature, but Trace finally called out loudly by saying “is that a boy or a girl?” He hadn’t even noticed the person was small, he just couldn’t figure out if it was a man or a woman!

I guess I’m the stick-in-the-mud. I don’t find a child cursing purposely hilarious, and as our family doesn’t swear, I would be shocked and appalled. How sad that parents think their negative habits rubbing off on impressionable children is a laughing matter.

Years ago my nephew would watch the “Power Puff Girls”. He couldn’t pronounce it so he would say the Power F*** Girls are on.lol

Very funny!
Bc it was Hugh (a celeb) Im sure the crowd just laughed. If it were a regular man they woulda called the police thinking he was molestig or letting his girl Ava be molested.

My cousin met a beautiful woman in Rwanda and they married and had two children; the youngest of whom I met for the first time this Thanksgiving (I am from MA but have been living in and out of NY for four years, they live in DC). My grandfather decided to spice up the conversation by putting all adults at the “kids” table and putting the six and eight year old with us. The little boy was cranky…we kept asking him if he was OK. He wouldn’t respond. Finally, halfway through the meal, he turns to my grandfather’s girlfriend and says “You know, I’m in a bad mood because I didn’t sleep on the ride up here. I didn’t sleep on the ride up here because I had A BIG WEDGIE.”

Hmm, nothing as embarrassing as some of the tales already told, but my nephew has no inside speaking voice. He doesn’t know the meaning of whispering, so if he ever has a question to ask when you’re in a public place, he’ll just ask it in a loud, almost shouting tone…even if it means the entire store or people in the area can hear him, and it could have been a question about them, nice, rude or otherwise. He’s one that needs an answer to every question, and he also asks why and what for, et cetera.

I can’t even begin to give examples. Too many to recount.

One time he’d asked my mother right off the bat, “Grandma, why is that [man/woman] doing that?” She’ll shush him and give him a short answer. Then he’ll just ask why and point at them! I know sometimes the people he’s talking about look at him and smile or laugh or both, but not all of them do…

Things like that. If I’m there, I just try to ignore it and divert his attention and keep him quiet.

But I think I would die off from embarrasment from Ava’s little “Bucky” moment. That is embarrassing, but hilarious as well.

Oh my gosh, I’ve got tears from laughing so hard. Not only is Hugh’s story funny, but the comments on here are hilarious too!

Our 2yrs old son says “c*ock” instead of “sock” so that can be bad in public.

My step-son was about 8yrs old when we were getting gas and he saw a lady standing by her car. He said, “she’s really fat!” with the window rolled down. I couldn’t sink low enough into my seat! I rolled up the window as quickly as possible as I explained to him that as obvious as something like that may be, it’s not polite to point it out lol

@Jackie.

i smiled reading some of the comments, buts yours made me laugh for ages! so cute!

this is not so much a cute words story but…

last year in church one sunday, the little kids from the sunday school (all about 3) got up to sing for the rest of us on the stage. there was this one little boy, who was known to be fidgety. he was standing at the front of the group and when he started singing (loudly and didnt know all the words!) he was singing right into the mic. about 600 people (my church is big!) were cracking up the whole time. he had no idea, the poor soul!

wow these stories are so funny! when I was really small… this is so not politically correct, so I’m sorry, lol… but we were in a mall and there’s was a little african american boy in the elevator and i pointed at him and said, “Mommy! Daddy! Look at the little monkey!” lol