Kids say the darndest things

Like "Dowd! Dowd! Dowd!" "what?" "um...here: this toy lion".

my favourite current toddler tantrum is him screaming at me 'nooo! Don't wipe my tears away!'

that made me screw up my face with glee

i have twice had to go around the corner to hide my laughter from him

oh last time he made me put the tears back on his face

LOOOOOL

dying @ that

it's his thing! He used to hate having his temperature taken: 'don't take my temperature! put it back in!'

omg <3

oh last time he made me put the tears back on his face

LOL. My wife just called to let me know that our son was 30 minutes late to preschool because he had a complete meltdown in the parking lot when she wiped his mouth, insisting that they go back home so he could put more peanut butter on his face.

haha

oh my god that is amazing

lol, I haven't dealt with those exact tantrums but I definitely recognize the general concept

the Fuckin' Fours are worse than the Terrible Twos imo

We park in a self-park apt building garage where we (usually) park behind another car. Every time I pull into the space and stop now, E, who is 2, says "Dad, drive a little more!" meaning pull up more. She is usually right.

xp: heh, just wait until the Thoughtless Thirteens.

omg mine has done that too re putting dirt back on his hands when he didn't want them wiped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNjRjycjFIc

hahahaha

So glad my kids never did the fake crying/whining thing to get their way. I hate that!

i love all this rottenness so much <3

The kids were talking about how Justine Clarke is about to have her own show on ABC (she's a kids tv presenter)

Dex declares "it has a puppet dog, called Snuffy the Dickhead!"

One of my sons has started attempting to engage our Amazon Echo in conversation and it's been amazing.

For example, he banged his leg on a table running around the living room and said, "Ow! Alexa, do you have legs?"

<3

Kids talking to siri etc is always a fun time.

my son has a song he made up and sings quite a lot, usually after I tell him something. It's called 'No it isn't' and goes: 'No it isn't, no it isn't, no it isn't.... no it isn't, no it isn't...'

I put on Massive Attack's Protection as dinner music last night and D started singing "I'll stand in front of you" randomly as the song went on; then, when "Karmacoma" started, both boys started doing a raise-the-roof dance routine in their chairs. To my knowledge, I hadn't played the album for them before.

It's working. It's really working.

So cute.

"Earth is my favorite planet because that's where my friends live"

Been super into dinosaurs lately and last week he came home from preschool having learned that “poop” is the funniest word ever. So now I’m constantly hearing “poopasaurus is the stinkiest dinosaur ever!”

Does he know that the word for fossilized dino poop is "coprolite"? Because I know that now, all because of children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUEX0quyh0

"Be Faithful" by Fatman Scoop was playing on the radio while I was getting ready this morning; after I left the bathroom, D followed me to my bedroom and jumped up and down on the bed while rapping the Black Sheep quote as I got dressed.

omg <3

I've been saving these up. From my 6-year-old son.

"I wanna pack" "what do you want to pack?" "No! I want a pack of wolves! I want fifteen wolves!"

"Why is Easter on a different day every year?" "It's on a different calendar, it's on the lunar calendar." "I haven't got a lunar calendar, I've got a Dangermouse calendar"

(talking about his (American) teacher telling him bread in the USA is sweeter) "Is Texas America's sweet tooth?"

"I wanna pack" "what do you want to pack?" "No! I want a pack of wolves! I want fifteen wolves!"

lol. He and my daughter should have an international playdate.

Ella (4yo): You're nefarious!
Me: Do you know what nefarious means?
Ella: It's a cheese.

ha!

*nods*

massive lols at that

Just to add to the list of frightening crap kids say, over the weekend my 4 year old told me out of nowhere that "someday the sun is gonna burn up the earth."

― how's life, Monday, January 26, 2015 7:34 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We were watching Hunt for the Wilderpeople last night. At some point, the main character says reads a poem that ends with the line "live forever." My girl says something like "Live forever... Does he mean he'll live until the sun explodes and takes the earth with it? Where will we scatter the earth's ashes - the moon?"

thinkin ahead!

That's one of those questions where the response is"what do you think?"

(a good 50% of my interactions with children involve answering with a question: why do you think that? etc.)

i love all of your kids and their darnedest things but how's life's kid is one i respect the most

At bedtime, the eight-year-old boy starts talking about how these kids at school keep roasting him.

"Roasting you? What, like doing snaps on your mother?"

"Snaps on my mother?" he says. "I don't even know what that means."

"What do you mean by 'roasting' then?"

He then goes on this tear on me, "You know I'm not talking about cooking, right? People at school aren't putting me in an oven, OK? Do you see this?" - in other words, he starts roasting me about roasting.

"OK! THEN WHAT ARE THEY ROASTING YOU ABOUT?"

"My hairline."

I have one of those moments where I realize I've comprehended nothing in the past 15 minutes (again). "Your hairline? What hairline?"

I hate doing this in the middle of this informative conversations, but I take out the iPhone and Google "roasting hairline jokes" like the 44-year-old white dad I am. A huge list of sites pop up, along with about two dozen LeBron James memes, all about his polar hairline.

I look up at the boy, who has hair nothing like LeBron James. "What about your hairline do they roast you about?"

He points to the side of his head, the one place where his hair is cut and trimmed perfectly to match the contour of his ear. "My hairline, dude!"

I don't know what to say except that in a way, I'm glad he's being included.

my 8-y-o son would have, at least three or four times during that conversation, rolled his eyes and made a massive sigh like i was literally the dumbest person alive

I don't WANT the clock to go CLOCKWIIIIIISE!

O_o

The other day Ella bounced into the room and said, apropos of nothing, "Dad, you know how you love pygmies?"

Dex is watching that new animated Godzilla movie. Hes hyped up waiting for the big G to finally appear on screen and when he does, I hear "oh daddy daddy GODZILLA !!! OH FUCK!!"

erm haha.