Outrageous ageism at the toddler singalong!!

Sorry - he started on a verse about what the grannies do...

That's one version I won't be sharing with DGS!

Haven't heard that one before! and thought I knew every version. It is quite funny, but he should be careful he might get attacked by a group of grannies. (Was it Spike Milligan's programme or Monty Python that had gangs of grannies?)

On my dgs' bus the grannies go knit knit knit which may be a stereotype but a harmless one.

I wouldn't have been very happy at that to be honest.

I think I would have had friendly word with him afterwards! Not a very nice thing to teach children even if it's sometimes true!

I'm going to be spending every spare minute in the shower now!!!!

Elena - I've been thinking a bit more about this. What is your AIBU actually about - the fact the you weren't offended and found it funny? In that case YABU because we should be encouraging our DC/DGC to be kind . If it had been me, I would have had a quiet word with the leader of the singing afterwards.

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I'm surprised someone hasn't pulled him up about it before, unless this is the first time he's sung it.

I would have been so angry at that. At the very least I would have picked the little one up and walked out.

He was out of order. What a thing to teach toddlers. Definitely needs a word in his shell like.

I would have complained because little ones are like sponges and could repeat what was said causing hurt and embarrassment.

Missed it was a man - ok here goes ' the grandad on the bus has a floppy willy floppy willy floppy willy.....'

Oops, just spluttered diet coke everywhere.

And I've just chocked on my coffee.

@trisher - It was Monty Python's Flying Circus,with "Hell's Grannies" - roving bands of old ladies spreading terror...

I know I am not being unreasonable in thinking this was out of order. I still found it funny - in an aghast way, if you know what I mean, that he could be so ridiculously inappropriate. I could not have walked out as I would have made such a clatter climbing over people and prams. Yes, I could have had a word with him afterwards, and probably should have done. It would have been a gentle word! If I go again, and he sings it again, I promise I will.

I find this SO offensive! I think if I had been physically unable to leave the room with my GC I would have stood up and interrupted the singing and there would be nothing gentle about what I would have said to him!

I find this thoroughly objectionable. One of the lovely things about small children is that they accept everyone, all ages, all colours, beautiful or ugly just as they are and make no judgements. To put this sort of idea into their heads and to encourage the to find it amusing really is out of order.

I don't very often get truly irritated by things, but this has really pulled my chain. I spent many years working with elderly and/or disabled people and sometimes they did smell of wee - and they did not find it at all funny, just embarrassing.

To be honest I would get in touch with the people who ran the event and complain.

I think that's pretty horrible. I think you ought to go again, and take lots of grannies with you. Terrorise him with 'The daddies on the bus all check their prostates...'

Was he smiling at the time?
Or was eveyone singing it routinely?

Elena - could you do that? Get in touch with the people who run the event and complain? Or just post the link on here and some of us will do the rest.

Elena I don't think I would have been able to keep quiet. I'm afraid I would have said something! I worked most of my adult life with dementia sufferers who were incontinent of urine. We did out very best to make sure they did not smell of wee. Like other posters here I think you should complain to the organisers of this event. They weren't "The Singing Kettle" were they?