I know kids. I know them well. On my recent trip back home to where I grew up, I just realised how many kids I used to babysit. A lot of kids. I kept running into people whose kids I babysat {and who are now grown-up and even parents too, eek}. I did work experience in a Preschool, and I was a nanny for 12 years. I know the kids. Have we got that clear?
So, I know that when kids are away from their parents they tell all the things. Those things that you didn’t think the kids were seeing or hearing, they see and hear them. They do. And then they tell other people. Like me.
Over the years I heard stuff. Stuff about money, about secrets, about things the parents said about me that probably didn’t want repeated {particularly TO me}, about private stuff, and about stuff that made me fall to the ground and almost die with laughter. STUFF.
I just didn’t think my kids would be those kids. My girlfriend Rebel, we both have kids in the same class, informed me earlier this week that Lacey had shared something about Hubby and I to her son. But not only to her son, but to her desk of kids in the classroom, and possibly her teacher {depending if she was in earshot or not, which teachers always are… aren’t they?}.
I’m hesitant to say that thing here, because it’s kinda humiliating and Rebel did break out into roars of laughter when texting the details to me {and by roars I mean “Bahahahahaha! LOL”}. But I will. I’ll just blurt it out, get red-faced and get it over and done with. The thing she said? “My mum and dad like to shower together, and kiss each other and then wee on each other.”
TO ALL THE KIDS. So now we’ve established that I know kids, and I know the kids have probably gone back to tell their parents, and now everyone will be looking at us like we’re that couple that does THOSE things.
For the record, we don’t. Besides the ‘wee’ thing, it would be very romantic to be doing those things, yet slightly awkward and wrong in front of our kids, but we don’t. I mean the closest we get to that, is when he jumps out of the shower and I yell, “Watch the kids, I’m having a shower. Make sure they don’t burn down the house!” and jump straight in after him.
So romantic are we.
What things have your kids said? Or have other people’s kids ever said something they probably shouldn’t have to you? Do tell!
Oh sorry Chantelle that is hilarious! Kids and their imaginations. Being a primary school teacher I have heard many ‘secrets’ over the years.
Hopefully the parents read your blog and know it isn’t true!
I bet you have! 🙂
Fantastic!! Love it!!
Glad you’re amused. 😛
Bahahahahaha! LOL
Exactly! 😛
I want to hear how those kids relay the story to their parents….Chinese whispers almost guarantees that the story will change along the way….
To be a fly on the wall!
I walked into the school one day passing other Mums and swear they smirked at me – could not understand what was happening until I walked into my first borns year one classroom and the teacher said – I hear congratulations are in order (I was pregnant with #4 but had not yet told anyone apart from immediate family). I was like, Oh, Thank you, but how did you know? She said, You son told news today, just before the siren, so there were a few Mum’s in the class (that explained the smirks) and he said (and I quote)
“My Mum is having another baby because the pill she takes to stop her having a baby didn’t work.”
This was technically true (I had had a migraine and antibiotics around the same time) – but I didn’t know how much he had heard or taken in.
If the earth could have opened and swallowed me, I would have been happy.
I’m sorry but I’m laughing so hard. Cheeky little thing! And the timing, ARGH!
I know, right !!
Just after I had my now 2 year old, her big brother (my oldest) announced to his preschool class that Mum had popped a baby out “her bottom”.. … and once my at Christmas time my niece told me that the gift that they’d given my son was “something we’d been given but didn’t want” … fully disclosing her parents regifting skills! Kids aye!
You are very clever to pop a baby out your bottom! 😛
I once had a kid tell me that her Daddy “loves to do great big farts in bed!” lol
Doesn’t every dad? Ha!
When my son was five, he wrote “I am thankful for my mom” on his thanksgiving art… Then drew me naked in the shower. It was placed on the class bulle board. OH! AND I work at his school so all my co workers saw it .
HaHa! I hope it was ‘glowing’. 🙂
Lol. I love this. No one has told me what my kids have divulged in public. Maybe it’s that bad.
Or maybe you have angel children who don’t tell your secrets. 😛
Lol…. we have a newborn in the house and miss 4 has decided walking up to people and saying ” excuse me, umm my mum has milk that comes out her boobs” she thinks it is the coolest thing ever. (She’s not so fussed on the baby though)
My 5 year old told the neighbours that daddy likes to pop mummy’s cork in the backyard. REALITY: daddy popped a bottle of champagne for mummy on the deck and the cord landed in the backyard, lol! Lots of red faces!
Omg my daughter nearly said exactly the same thing to her nan and pop a few weeks ago she just didn’t say that we pee on each other haha! So I had to deny it to my mother in law of course but it was a little white lie because my husband and I do shower together occasionally….to be honest it’s really the only alone time we get (hubby works full-time nightshift and myself full-time dayshift) and it’s
the only room that has a lock on the door bahaha.
Oh god I don’t even want to know what my child is going to say in the future. She already comes out with hilarious random things at 2 AND parrots everything her dad says to her “silly mummy crazy”. I can only imagine what she’ll be saying later on.
Bahahaha that’s gold!!! Where on earth did she come up with that? Where on earth do kids come up with half the stuff they say??
Haha love it. Wonder what fantastic rumours are flying about in the playground at our school about me.. hmm probably none, or something lame like I picked my nose or something mildly gross – at least your rumour is kinda spicy/racy and naughty ? (apart from the wee bit – that’s just funny!)
Oh my gawd how hilariously cringe-worthy! Man my kids say all sorts of things. I remember my son telling his kindy teacher I was having something out of my tummy that shouldn’t be there!!! It was an ovary thing but I bet they were thinking otherwise! Ha ha the wee thing cracks me up xx