Embarrassing children!

Ah the dangers of reading books to our children! It gives them ideas!

My great nephew at a very tender age as he scrambled onto a train just as it was about to leave the station ,piped up in his clear little voice'' Oh, Mummy we nearly missed the f.....g train!'' Shock/horror on the face of elderly passenger. I think it was probably what Daddy said in the morning as he was running late for work the he would probably ''miss the f.....g train''.

Naughty daddy!

When I'd had an altercation with another driver in Asda's car park, my younger son came home and announced: 'Daddy we saw a sod in the car park today.'
Another time, he asked me, 'Mummy, what does buddy 'ell mean?' Fortunately on that occasion there was nobody else there to hear him.

Conversation on returning Swiss GCs to their mother-DGS exasperated"For God's sake!" DD gasped "Where did you hear that?" looking at us "You 've never heard me say that." "No maman you say For Phoque's sake" What does phoque mean? said 8 year old DGD-a seal n'est-ce pas?Looking with very wide open blue eyes at her sheepish mother .

Somewhat topical this: many years ago when topless sunbathing was a 'new thing', a friend and I decided to indulge - on Dawlish Beach - whilst our little children played in the sand. As we lay there feeling very liberated, two little bodies came and stood over us blocking out the sun. Our sons. Mine (the cheeky one) said, "Mum - your bosoms have bust!"

On another occasion, at a Parents' evening I was fondly reading his compositions pinned on the board in the classroom. He wrote, "On Christmas morning my brother and I went in to see if Mum was awake but she was asleep, so we went back to our rooms. A bit later we went into Mum's room again, but she was STILL drunk".