OMG! What a shame! The day my son did it my partner just gave me a kiss, my son asked us

"Are you "sexing"?" --> I mean "s.e.x" in French is a noun not a verb and there's no conjuguation... he created the verb!

After ten years, I still laugh when I think about it!
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This one was not embarrassing... just as impressive as all get out.

She was eight, and was precocious for science (so don't believe it when you hear that science is a guy-only thing).

We had a routine where I'd pick her up after school, and instead of going strait home we'd go to Tim Hortons and I'd have my late afternoon coffee and donuts while she had after-school chocolate and donuts, and if she had homework, we'd sit there until she'd done it while I read a newspaper or helped if need be (that way it always got done and was out of the way by the time we actually got home) but if there wasn't any homework, she'd ask questions while sipping chocolate and munching donuts, and I'd answer...

One Sunday the in-laws were visiting, and out of blue she says...

"If things speed up the longer they fall, then how come parachuters only go 200 miles per hour?"

I remember having explained gravitational acceleration to her, but I had never talked to her about terminal velocity from air friction.

Turned out she'd seen a program on TV about sky-diving, where they mentioned that there was a terminal velocity of 200 miles per hour.

I *loved* the reaction of the in-laws (you know the type... the kind who think their daughter could have done better...)
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Years ago when my children were young three and four I remember thinking about how I was going to raise two small children on my own, their father left. As I began to cry, my children entered the room and sat down. My son said, "mom we been talking, dont worry, you don't need a man, we will take care of you". I remember thinking, how sweet, my children want to take care of me.
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I was telling my son during Christmas break from college that I was really proud of him, because he always set goals and worked toward them, and he never gave up on anything. He said "But Mom, I learned that from you." Even though no one heard that but us, that was one of the proudest moments of my parenting life.
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When my niece was three I took her outside to play. I turned around for a few seconds to chase after a bouncy ball we were playing with, when I turned back around she had a roach in her mouth . She ate half of it before I could get it out of her mouth. I was disgusted and she just had a big smile on her face.
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I was entertaining my cousin's children for the day when one of her daughter's noticed I had armpit hair. Discovering this, she ran into the kitchen to tell her mom, "Mom! He has hair EVERYWHERE!".

I'm glad my cousin (and her husband) has a sense of humor.
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My son's most inappropriate remark occurred when he was about three, in 1970, so it was a time when profanity wasn't as common on TV and in society in general, and many older people were still shocked by it.

We went into the city for a parade with my mother-in-law who was extremely proper, uptight and religious. She disapproved of my husband and especially me because in her view we were neer-do-wells and hippies. My sweet faced little toddler proceeded to complain at one point as the temperatures grew chilly, "Grandma, this f**%ing sweatshirt isn't warm enough." You had to be there to get the full impact of his innocent expression added to the words; everybody almost fainted! That cemented her opinion that we were obviously horrible people.

I can't honestly say that he never heard us swear, but he had never, ever said anything like that before, and we always taught him that certain words were inappropriate for children.
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My two year old informed my aunt that she was Ursula from the Little Mermaid.
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Wonderful story! I laughed til I literally cried. That's a brilliant moment. And it reminded me of a good one!.....
My little one is far too young, but my sister and I were at a laundromat once. I think she was about 4.
Anyhow, she had this hand puppet monkey that she took everywhere. She loved it soooo much. She slept with it, ate with it and even gave it her sippy cups! That monkey had some rank milk breath...lol.
Well, she lost it while were there and was freaking out. She was asking everyone where it was.
I asked if she had looked in the restroom and she said no. So I told her to go look.
Apparently she had made use of the bathroom while she was in there looking for her toy.
She comes back out with no pants or panties on screaming I can't find my monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course you know what everyone was thinking....

By the way, the monkey got washed...we ended up finding it...lol
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