Most Embarassing Moment Created By Your Kids & Grandchildren

FutureRN~Pookie · Oct 15, 2003

OMG! That's too funny, Frances! Little kids are so cute!

Kacy

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Oct 15, 2003

My four kids have provided me with countless red-face moments, but one of the most memorable was this little tableau, which occurred about 15 years ago:

The whole family had been ill with some kind of intestinal virus for several days, and on top of that there was about a foot of snow on the ground which made travel very hazardous for us recent California transplants........all of which conspired to give us a raging case of cabin fever. None of us had been out of the house in a week, so we decided to go to the library and get some books. At the time, Amanda was in kindergarten, Melanie was about three, and Chris was just a baby. (Ben was still a couple of years away.)

So there we were, looking through the stacks, when the baby passed gas and started laughing. (His sisters had taught him very early in life that farts are funny.) Then Melanie said in a "whisper" that could've been heard in the next county, "Mommy, Christopher did a air muffin!!". That got Amanda laughing; unfortunately, her tummy wasn't quite back to normal yet, and as she giggled she broke explosive wind, causing several people to stare at all of us while I tried to shush both Melly and the baby, who also continued to "putt" and laugh merrily all the while.

My husband and I started grabbing kids, coats, and infant seats......and while nothing got broken in our pell-mell rush for the exit (except maybe for a few track records), we got some nasty looks from the other patrons, and it was months before we got the nerve to show our faces at the library again!

FutureRN~Pookie · Oct 15, 2003

LOL!!! :eek: Now THATS funny!

Kacy

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Oct 15, 2003

:rotfl: :chuckle :roll :lol2: That's a good one too. The farting incident? That happened to me too. Several years ago, My two daughters and I were in a Pizza Hut with my twin sister and niece. I was thirsty, so I drank a lot of the soda we had in the pitcher.

Now, we were seated in a lower area by ourselves because the upper area was filled. As we were eating, I suddenly let out one of the loudest burps I had ever made, accompanied by a blow-out fart. I was grateful we were alone until my outspoken twin sister said in a volume that all could hear, "FRAN!"

Let me tell you, I was totally mortified, and couldn't wait to get out the door. :imbar I held my head down as we passed the other people on our way out so we wouldn't make eye contact.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Oct 15, 2003

That's HILARIOUS!! ROFLMAO!!:chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

Here's another tale from the child-rearing annals of our family:

The girls were about 5 and 2 at the time, we'd gone to Mass and Melanie let a stinker, right in the pew (phew?) which had made Amanda laugh so hard we had to take the both of them to the "cry room" so as not to disturb the other parishioners. After Mass was over, we were talking with the priest when Amanda piped up with, "And Melly farted---oops, she let a breeze biscuit---Mommy told me not to say 'fart', it's not polite!" :imbar

This is the same kid who, at the ripe old age of 10 months, could recite entire strings of profanity whenever somebody cut me off in traffic:eek: We tried so hard not to cuss in front of the children, but I had a horrible problem with road rage when I was younger, and stuff would just slip out (much to my chagrin when she'd cut loose with "G--damn sonuvab**** jerk*** driver!!") I'm not proud of this, and fortunately I have a lot more restraint than I did back then, although it's a bit too late to have any influence on my children! Of course, what they didn't pick up from me, they learned on the playground.........I've heard first-graders use language I didn't even know until I was married. It's amazing.....when I was little, the biggest scandal to hit my school was when Rocco Allen said "poopsh**" in the cafeteria. He didn't even say it right (what he actually said was "poopSHIP"). And nowadays kids get away with language that would embarrass a drunken sailor! :rolleyes:

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Oct 15, 2003

mjlrn97,

I love your footnotes.:)

Burnt Out, ASN, RN · Oct 16, 2003

ROFLOL :roll :roll :roll

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Oct 16, 2003

I definitely know what you mean. I had my sex:imbar education from 5 year olds when I was a school bus driver. :eek:

nowplayingEDRN · Oct 17, 2003

I have just read and laughed till I almost pee'd my pants....tears running down my cheeks.........THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH!!!! I needed that laugh......

My son mortified me in a store once when he was old enough to go through things and ask what they were....

We were standing on line in the grocery store when he reached in my purse pulled out a kotex and waved it in the air, asking at the top of his little lungs..."Mommy, What's this thing????" Or when he yelled at the top of his voice in church, "I"VE GOTTA GO TO THE BATHROOM" Or the best is when his sister was a infant and we were in church and it was at the end of a particularly moving service and in the silence as the benediction was about to be delivered was heard the most earth shattering grunt....and not just 1 but a series of them....people looking sideways at each other, and glancing back in the direction of the unseen grunter and me turning beet red while my husband had all that he could do to control himself and him mother right next to him, laughing every bit as hard (silently) as he was........Ahhhhh! the good old days.

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Oct 17, 2003

My favorite is the, "What's this?":kiss

LeesieBug · Oct 18, 2003

When my daughter was two, and working on potty training, she became VERY interested in everyone elses bathroom habits. Going into crowded public bathrooms became a dreaded experience. In the stall, while I was doing my business, she would say , in a nice loud, clear voice, "Mom, are you poopin'?"

If the verdict was "no!", then she would proceed to ask, "Are you peein'?". She would not let theses go discretely. If I answered too quietly , I got a resounding, "what?!" There was usually a lot of giggling going on from anyone else in the room.

Whith kids, you HAVE to have a good sense of humor!!!!!!

The other bad one was when my twin boys were toddlers, they liked the swings because when they went high it made their stomachs tickle. Well, they did not refer to it that way. So, we'd be in the park with me pushing them high, and they would be laughing, shouting, "my pee-pee, mom your tickling my pee-pee!", or something to that effect. I got a lot of looks for that one until people figured out what was going on!