Things children say [smile]

These are so much fun. They should be put in a book? There's probably ones out there already.

Out walking today, we saw a little girl, barely knee high to a grasshopper, she was wandering around in a world of her own admiring the daisies. She wandered into my path and suddenly seeing me (I had stopped so we didn't fall over each other) and looking up she squeaked ”I’m really very sorry”

Make my heart melt.

My sister, then 5, once casually told our mother she had heard Edie, the lady next door telling another neighbour about a very old man of mutual acquaintance who had turned into a carrot because he touched a dog.
We had always been warned never, ever to touch dogs.

My mother puzzled for a long time over this before asking Edie what on earth my sister could have overheard.

Apparently Edie had told her friend that Stanley had suffered a severe stroke and would probably be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

We forget that children are just building their vocabularies and what we take so much for granted (words like 'stroke' etc.,) can sound very odd to them.

This thread has really made me smile.
Love the 'cock porn ' NannyCI

My 8 year old daughter, eldest of 5 children, came home from school after a sex education lesson and said "You and dad did it 5 times!"

I was checking to see if my gran-daughter then aged 2 had gone off to sleep. No she said my eyes are still looking.

I'm waiting for a cataract op and told her , she's now 6, "That Mam's eyes have gone". "No" she replied, "they are still there".

My daughter had a job to keep a straight face when she told her recently that the boys in the playground were using a naughty word to play a game. "What is it " asked my daughter. "Cocks and robbers" came the reply.

When calculators first came out, my friend's daughter told me she wanted a complicator.

Just remembered, when my Daughter was young, she is now fifty, I remember her asking my Mum why she had so many tram lines on her face. She hasnt asked me as she would know the answer.

Grandson of nearly 3, in the middle of potty training.
Mostly successful for wee, but a dozen times a day he'll want to sit on it before announcing, 'My wee not comin' out!' and charging off again.
Alas he hasn't sussed out the poo bit yet...

My 2 and half yr GD asked me for Cock Porn today, whilst saying to her dog No Peaches No cock porn for you! ?? It took me a while to realise she actually meant Popcorn which was on the kitchen table.

DGDs aged 4 and 5 were fighting over a toy DGD1 said ' Well Ishould get it as I am the oldest " GD2 said in reply . ... " but I am the fourest" .
DH was telling them all about the dinosaurs and how they died out GD1 said ' but why did they dry out "

Can't stop smiling and chuckling, what a tonic to read on a Friday evening.

After an afternoon with dd sil and gson aged 4, I left my walking stick in their car, darling gs came running down the drive Grandma, Grandma, you’ve left your Broomstick,
Dear sil denies all knowledge, still has me falling about laughing, he’s 5 now and understands the difference.

When my daughter was about 3 we were on a train going up to Liverpool to see her GPs. A young man across the aisle started eating his packed lunch and DD said "Look Mummy, that man's got a big one!" Everyone in the carriage turned to look.

It was actually one of the new style, larger, sausage rolls.

A few days ago our 6y old grandson said ‘shall we play a game grandma? The one who’s on (love it) has to spell a word and then the guesser has to point to the what the word is ... and it has to be in this room okay?”

“Okay”

After a couple of goes it was his turn again.

“C - O - C - K”

“What?” (oh god, slightly embarrassed.... how to handle this?)

“Wait ... grandma - I forgot the ‘L’ “

??

Daughter told her 5 year old, "go to the potty now and I"ll give you a free slushie." He replied, "If I have to go to the potty, then the slushie isn't free, is it?"

My elder daughter used to go to gymnastics when she was little. The younger daughter kept asking me for a jam tart and it wasn't until she went and got the leotard that I realised what she meant. They are jam tarts still.

Experigran I remember some giggling girls at school asking me that when I was 14. It’s hard to believe, in this day and age, but I didn’t know what they meant. I was very innocent and naive, even for 1953!
I guessed that it was something smutty from their behaviour, and just walked away!

I remember, many years ago now, my daughter who was 8 at the time asking me if I was a virgin! Hardly, darling, I have 4 children, I replied. I thought it had something to do with that, she said. I asked her why she had asked. She answered, a boy down the road asked me. I told him certainly not - and I'll never wear white socks again! She's now 43 and we still have a giggle over that.

My favourites so far, amongst so many wonderful and endearing posts are:

Trevor (aaw, bless her)
My eyes are going to sleep without me (exactly right too)
the raining pot (brilliant, children are so astute)
mum’s getting me a unicorn (hope she wasn't disappointed)

And the very perceptive comment: of course when you die you come back as another baby
Does he know about Prof Ian Stevenson’s research into this?

Thank you all. Don't stop now

This is a great thread!

When my son was a toddler (he is now 43), we had an infestation of Earwigs, he couldn't say that so he called them wink a winks. After that every insect was a wink a wink.

When my Niece was 3, she sat by her Granddad (my Dad) patted his beer belly and said " you have eaten too many dinners"!

When she was about 5 or 6, she wanted to watch her Wizard of Oz DVD. Dad was recording something at the time, and kept explaining she would have to wait. After a few explanations he said "Emily you don't understand", she said " No Grandddad, YOU don't understand, I want to watch it Now!

When my grandson was 4 , I told him we needed to buy a new watering can, after not finding a suitable one , we left the shop . He said, but Nanny we haven't bought the ....he struggled to remember what it was called then said 'the raining pot'! DH and I still laugh and have taken to adopt this new name for it .

When my daughter was about 3yrs old she was in the garden helping me water in some new plants. She went merrily round the garden watering with her little watering can and happily announced 'Mummy the flowers are all drunk now' We still love to remind her of this and it still makes us laugh, she's now30!

Not from a child ..but my 60 year old sister in law said she loved baking because it was very purathetic.....we just love her. ?

Bordergirl57 your comment about the bolog and naise reminded me of when my son was fascinated by articulated lorries. One day he saw one without its trailer, and shouted, “Look! There’s an ar without its tic!”