The Things Kids Say

[Barsel]

It always amuses me to hear of the things kids say when they are growing up and would love to hear the things you remember. I'll start by saying; when my eldest daughter was little she couldn't say beefburgers, she called them burfbingers ( I think it was a mix of beefburgers and fish fingers) and because it amused us, we called them that too. Went into the butchers one day and asked for 6 burfbingers and honestly couldn't remember for what seemed a long time, the proper name! Very embarrassing.

[mallyh]

when my granddaughter was little we were waiting at the bus stop and she got all excited when she saw our bus was a dibbledocker lol x

[pixie374]

Not quite the same... but I remember a conversation between by daughter, then about 4, now 20... and my gran, where my daughter asked "why do you have wrinkles?"
Gran- "because I am old"
Daughter- "why have you got grey hair?"
Gran- "because I am old"
Daughter- "so why are you still not dead then?"

We have never really let her forget it :-)

[Barsel]

One of my granddaughters, when little, was a big fan of 'In the Night Garden' and she loved her cuddly toy Makka Pakka. In the Trafford Centre one day, she was skipping about waving her toy and shouting Makki Pakki. Never seen my daughter move so fast to grab her and explain the real name of the toy.

[mallyh]

I've put this on before ..we were having a picnic on a beach and I dropped a bit of a ritz biscuit and my grandson said very loudly you've got a cracker between your legs nan lol x

[KATHLAKELAND]

My son could not say serviettes and we do eat out a lot, he always called them rejets
we used to take him in the amusements with my 80 year old mum
the place was called Las Vegas and my mum always said los veg ass
and he answer to grand prix was said as grand pricks

[retrocop]

Taking my 5 year old son around the National History Museum in South Kensington. We came to the Evolution of Man section and there were various stages of life sized apes and Neanderthals etc.
My son wandered off to a glass case and at the top of his voice yelled,"Dad this mans got a willy just like yours"
There was a lady with two children within earshot and she turned and gave me what I thought was quite an appreciative smile. :-)

[Barsel]

Very funny stories Retro, would love to have been there to see that, the situation, not the ...... although ...... :-)

[aelmpvw]

was it shrivelled up retro?

[Helewel]

My friend's 6 year old daughter rang him up at work and said she was going to help Mummy make a cake. She asked him to get the greediments on his way home!

[retrocop]

It wasn't 30 years ago. When I caught up with him and saw what he was looking at I thought,"I wish." :-)

[retrocop]

My niece in Canada when about 4 yrs said she heard a man do a bumburp on the GoTrain.

[rowanwitch]

Friends daughter age 6 decided to give me the run down on the DVD player and movie collection before she left, when I was house sitting ....
.......And here is where mum keeps her adult movies.........

They were horror films but I did wonder for a moment.

[bhg481]

At the end of my daughter's first year at school she came home and said that her teacher had told them they would have a new teacher the following year because she was emigrating to Canada. They all had to look out for her aeroplane and they would know which one was hers because it would have an "Imagination" on the tail. This completely baffled us until a few days later when she corrected it to "Make believe" on the tail and then it twigged - Make believe = maple leaf = Canadian emblem.

[roopower]

Grandsons were singing The Drunken Sailor, younger one was singing the wrong words. Its 'heave ho and up she rises' . That's what I said 'Heave ho and huchen drivers'.

[roopower]

Daughter to older grandson. "Your little brother us exhausting". "Yes, he's like a hot dog that won't stay in the roll"

[vulcan42]

My son is an avid reader and often when he was small we'd go into the local bookshop for him to buy more books. While he was choosing I browsed through a number of books and eventually my son joined me. I was still removing, glancing through and replacing the books and my son, having made his selection was anxious to go. In a loud voice he eventually said "Dad, are you going to pay for the book this time?" I knew what he meant, was I going to buy the book I was holding, but everybody turned and gave me a very dirty look. It was a long time before I returned to that shop again.

[MargoTester]

Never mind what kids say I was doing the housework one day and put a CD on our player, which could take 6 CD's at a time. It came to an end and I thought the little display said NOD 15c. Puzzled for a while and gave up and asked my son what it meant, he gave me a strange look ' it says No disc Mum, I've never been allowed to forget it.

[roopower]

A group of us older ladies were discussing buying wool for knitting. One lady told us shed seen some in Poundland , she didnt know how much it was but thought it might be reasonable.

[Cloverjo]

My son used to call binoculars “binockliers”. We still call them that, even when talking to adults. Embarrassing sometimes.

[Barsel]

roopower lost count of the number of times I've been in the Pound shop with my friend and said,'I wonder how much this is?'

Cloverjo One of my granddaughters couldn't say computer,she used to call it a com puke ter.

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