Boy, I have so many of these!

One day, my son (who was in his lying stage) was telling me that when he spent the night at his grandmother's house, she took some of her teeth out before going to bed. Now, I had no idea my mother-in-law had false teeth because she doesn't wear dentures. Anyway, I just said, "really?" and he got upset because he thought I didn't believe him.

A few weeks later, I go to pick him up from spending the day with his "mama". When I step into the house, the first thing my son says is "Mama, right you take out your teeth before going to bed? Go ahead, Mama. Take out your teeth so my mommy can see!" I thought I was going to die. Thank god she has a great sense of humor. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif



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The past few months, I have had the pleasure of keeping my co-workers four year old daughter who is SMART as a WHIP and does not miss anything.

Anyway a couple of times Jordan would go with me to get my hair done. I go to Fiesta to get my hair which also has a tanning salon. Anyway the tanning beds are by the shampoo bowls. Jordan asked me what was in the room so I explained that people go in their, lay down and they get darker. Weeeeellllll, 15 minutes later when a tanner comes out, Jordan says to, "Miss Carla, She's not Black. She needs to go back in!!!" I LOST IT, literally LOST IT!!

Yesterday, a co-worker (she's white) had her kids in the office in the afternoon. The little girl is 3 years old. So I'm talking to the kiddies (because I love kids). The little girl looks at me and says, "You're Black." Her mother turns BRIGHT RED!!! LOL! I smiled at her and I said, "Yes, sweetie, I am." THEN, she looks at her mom, pulls on her shirt and says, "Mom, your shirt is black, too." Her mother kept trying to shut her up, it was hilarious!!!!! (of course, a lesson had to follow, but I'll leave that out, it takes away from the lightness of the thread! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif)

Now mind you, this is not the first time that this has happened to me. A few years ago, I used to waitress at Denny's. Well, one day, I go to the table to take the family's order. The little girl looks up from her coloring book and says, "Miss, you're Black." I said, "Yes, I know." She then proceeds to tell me that her mom is beige but her dad is more pink. So I asked her what color she was. She says, matter-of-factly, "Kinda pink and kinda beige!"

Ideal08, my niece used to call them the PEACH PEOPLE(Caucasians)really loudly in the malls.

About two years ago when my Godson was learning his colors, my husband and I put a color chart on the wall of our home. Everytime he came over he would go to the color chart and if he could name them, he recv'd a smiley face and 5 smiley faces equaled a surprise, of course. well beside the colors, I put pictures to associate the colors with....so one day after doing the chart, he came to me and said, "Auntie, you're not chocolate like us, you're banilla". I thought i would never stop laughing.

The other day, during one of my outreach programs, I had arranged for nursing students to come into to speak to the girls about "healty habits". Well one of the students asked the girls, "What vitamin can you take to help you feel better when you are sick." She was looking for Vitamin C. Miss Armani ( Brownie girl scout) raised her hand and begged to be called on. The nursing student said, "What's the answer Armani?" She yells so confidently "TYLENOL!" I thought I was going to die, I laughed so hard.

Recently my family and I went to my cousins' birthday party. They are 3yr old triplet girls. One of my cousins went up to my father, sat in his lap, and said:

"You look like my daddy and sound like my daddy, but...(takes a deep breath)...you suuuure don't smell like him."

My dad cracked up.

One of my grandmother's friends had stopped by my mother's house for a visit. This lady has alot of facial hair. Every since I was a little girl, this lady always had a "mustache" http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif.

Anyway, my niece was visiting. She was probably 3 or 4 at the time. Being the observer that she was/is, she noticed this lady's facial hair above her lips. (Mind you, my niece did not know this LADY as well as WE DID!)

So, my niece is just staring at the lady, not mumbling a word.(That was HIGHLY unusual for her!) I need to add that this lady's hair was cut low, kind of in a boxed shape.

When the lady decides to leave and we are walking her out...my niece in a loud voice asks, Mom, Tee (that's me), Granny...who is that man? We ignore her. She asks again, even louder, Who is that man?

We fell out! We were soooooo embarrassed. I know she heard her. We said nothing. We just sent her inside.

Another time...
My sister and I were gossiping. My niece enters the room, not knowing she had been eavesdropping...Anyway, the person we were "discussing" we saw them out somewhere...THEN she says, "Mom, is that the person you and Tee were talking about?"
I could have DIED! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

I used to be a Teacher Assistant for kindergarten about 2 years ago. Anyway, we were helping the children write sentences in their journals. The teacher was helping one little girl in particular spell "wash". So, she asks the girl, sweetie, what makes the (making the phoenetic sound for w) sound and the girl says the letter... "W". So she asks
again for "a" and the girl says the letter..."A". So then she asks, what makes the "shhhhhhh" sound? The girl was having a hard time with this one, but then, she perked up and said "Mommy!!"

We laughed for days and made sure we told her mother, too! I miss my kindergartners!!!

About a few months ago while talking with my daughter who was 3 at the time (she's four now), she said something silly to me and I said " Oh be quiet child". She said "I'm not a child". I said, "Then what are you then?" She put her hand on her hip and said to me (while shaking her head) "I'm a woman!" Lawd Lawd Lawd!!! Can we put these children out into the workforce? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif I told my friends and family that story and they just laughed and laughed. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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Ideal08 reminded me of another story:

Back in college, I worked at DOTS and Springfield, Ohio is known for a lot of Appalachian people (TRYING to be Politically correct)so keep that in mind.

One afternoon in the store, an Appalachian family comes in and they are accompanied with a little boy. After a few minutes, I hear over and over NICCA NICCA NICCA NICCA and I am getting MADDER and MADDER and MADDER http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif but I am also looking like http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

The family approaches the counter and the little boy again said NICCA. I LOST IT!!!!!! I looked up at his mom and grandmother and just as I was about to GO OFF, the mom says no he wants a NICKEL for the bubble gum machine at Value City. So I said, HE NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT HOW TO SAY THAT WORD BETTER.

I know this was not a funny one but it is still a Darnedst thing.

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My mother is a principal of an inner city elementary school which is also a music conservatory magnet. Children from all over the city can attend if they are accepted.

Anyhow, this young caucasian boy who was a functional Autistic was being registered to attend my mother's school. Since my mom knew about this future student and his disabilities, she came out to meet him and his mother.

My mother is biracial, 1/2 caucasian, 1/2 black, but considers herself Black. However she looks beige--I say tannish-yellow--and more to the point, many latinos thinks she's latina, but she is not. So the boy asked my mother, as a matter of factly, "Are you caucasian?"

My mother, stuttered a bit and said, "Well, no, I consider myself African American."

Then the boy has this perplexed look on his face and can't quite figure out what that means. So, my mom asks, "What are you?"

He answers, "I'm caucasian, that is my T shirt..." (The color of his T shirt was white).

Embarassed, the boy's mother tries to explain that she was trying to teach the boy about the differences of color in people, but the boy could never understand that concept because of his Autism...

Maybe we can all become Autistic when it comes to race...

Kids Say The Darndest Things!!
 

I heard this only this morning and had to share since it still makes me laugh when I think about it.

The 4 year old grandchild of one of the ladies who works in my building had gone to the mall with her mother and little sister who is 2. The mom took both children in the stall with her while she used the restroom. The 4 year old looked at her mom and asked very loudly "Mommy where did you get all of that fur? And why don't I have any?"

Suffice it to say, most of the other folks in the room heard her and burst out laughing. I can only imagine how red the mother's face was.

What are some funny things that you have heard kids say?

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One of my friends has a son (he's about 4), and they usually try to wait until he is asleep so that she and her husband can handle their "business".
Her in-laws (his parents AND grandparents) came over for Christmas dinner last year (some of our other friends were invited also), and after dinner, we decided to watch some tv. The commercial came on when the newly-married couple wants to show their parents the tape of their wedding, but it turns out that they accidently put in the honeymoon tape-the one where you hear the moans/groans.
After watching the commercial, her son says, "Mommy, that's the same noise that you and daddy make at nighttime!" He began to mimic the noises that he heard, and then he said, "But why is the bed always squeaking? Are you trying to kill more spiders on the wall?"
It wasn't funny, but I was ROTF! Her husband, the husband's father, and the other friends that were invited were chuckling as well. This just goes to show you that "the walls have ears" http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif


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Crimson, I experienced this in Europe except, they were NOT trying to say nickel, if you know what I mean. The kids were not used to seeing us and would stop us to try to get our autographs, or to take a piece of our clothing as souvenirs (yes, they even bombarded the bus like we were famous & we signed autographs for them). However, we would hear some of them refer to us out of ignorance by the N word, and their parents would look like they could just die. And they should've been embarrassed because it was a direct reflection of what they said in their household.



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One weekend when I was at home, I went to the mall with my mom, my niece (Ashley), my cousin, and her daughter (my 2nd cousin--Nicole). Somehow, the topic of dogs came up and the girls started talking about our dog who died recently. The next thing we know, Nicole says "You know you can't play with Princess no more." Ashley comes back with "Why not?" So, matter-of-factly, Nicole tells her "because God stole her and took her back to his house." We wanted to laugh so bad, but they were so cute and we couldn't.

When my son was 3years old, he had the chicken pox. Anyway, we were at McDonalds and this lady had huge pimples all over her face. My son said, "Look mommy she has chicken pox." I couldn't roll the window up fast enough.