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Share a Funny Story (that wasn’t so funny when it happened) that involves behavior! (23 posts)

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Julia Roberts said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Since we like sharing and we like to laugh we thought we’d have you share a funny story about your child’s (or I guess yours) behavior that wasn’t at all funny when it happened but looking back, even you’d have to admit it’s good for a laugh.

Here’s a quick one (about my nephew)…it was early morning in the grocery store and he tried to climb a wine display. Needless to say, the wine bottles came crashing down. MORTIFIED! The manager felt so bad he tried to tell me if was their fault for having it where they did and insisted that we not pay for it.

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Mindy said 2 years, 5 months ago:

*sigh* Way to drag up bad memories here, lol. I tease!

Many years ago my oldest was, I think, 6 or 7 years old? His cousins were in town and they were nearly all the same age. Our home has an upstairs and a downstairs. The kids were pretty much tearing up the main part of the house so the adults headed down to the rec room like we normally did. Much quieter etc. We could still hear them running around and they SHOULD have known where WE were.

After awhile, one of the adults realized that it was far too quiet upstairs so he ran up. I heard him upstairs calling their names (it was dead of winter too btw) and we all knew something was seriously wrong. I ran out the basement door to the backyard and as I crossed the yard, in the dark of winter night, I heard sobbing. Like, three kids sobbing.

It sounded like it was coming from my neighbor’s house I headed that way and as I crossed the driveway I looked up and saw three little shapes on the back porch of my neighbors were just then comforting them and taking them inside their home. I called their names and they all turned and then the kids freaked out and came sobbing over to me as the other adults all came running out behind me.

Seems that they were so busy playing they lost their little minds when they stopped and didn’t find us upstairs, no matter that they knew there was a DOWNSTAIRS, they thought we LEFT THEM and ran next door to get help.

SO MORTIFYING and honestly, 6 or 7 years later I can still hardly laugh about it. I swear my neighbors have looked at me like I was bad parent ever since.

Mindy

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JenniC said 2 years, 5 months ago:

When my youngest daughter was 4, I took her to a homeschool science class at the local science museum. In the classroom, they had a display of common items found in homes that kids could look at, take apart etc. One of these items was a toilet. You know where I am going with this, right? In the middle of class, Boo-Boo proceeded to the toilet, pulled down her pants and went potty. I was waiting in the food vending area and I saw them bring her out to the bathroom and the teacher told me what happened. I was definitely mortified. A few minutes later, I saw the toilet being rolled out on a big cart by maintenance. Kelsey just took it all in stride. She was never embarrassed. She simply informed me that there shouldn’t have been a toilet there if she couldn’t use it.

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Mindy said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Jenni! hahahahahahaha omg, that is the best story. Maybe not THEN, but now? so funny!

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Admin Dawn said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Mindy, one of my friends lives on the bikepath of a park and her preschool daughter figured out the door latch and just left. One day this woman brought her home. This woman had been walking her dog in the park and was very concerned to find this barefoot 3-year old wandering around (my friend was upstairs and thought her daughter was in the playroom basement). So they lecture their daughter about safety and mom says you can’t be in the basement without me (it’s a walk-out basement). But the very next day it happened AGAIN when my friend was in the bathroom and the same exact woman brought her daughter home! (Obviously they bought a new door latch!!)

Jenni, I’m kinda with Kelsey on that one! Surely it had happened to someone before??

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JenniC said 2 years, 5 months ago:

It’s definitely funny now. I don’t think it had ever happened before but I bet they won’t let it happen again. We still go to classes there and the Education Staff all love Kelsey so obviously it didn’t hamper their opinion at all. Honestly, I don’t think they even remember that it was her but the story itself lives on.
As an additional funny, I sent the girls out this morning to shovel the sidewalks and a little while later, I heard them singing “It’s A Hard Knock Life” from the musical Annie at full voice outside. If only I had a video camera handy.

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Sadie said 2 years, 5 months ago:

My kids love to run around outside with our dog. I usually clean up after the dog daily and must have missed some. My 2 year old was running around with the scooper shouting POOP. Would have been funny if the UPS man was not there. He was laughing.

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Sylvia Ross said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Uhhh, let’s just say it involves an innocent, not so little voice saying “Mummy you have hair THERE???” in a very quiet but very full public restroom…

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melanie adams said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Well over Thanksgiving a family member was breasfeeding their baby and my 6 year old was in the room. All of a sudden I hear You have big boobies and he comes over yelling mom she has big boobies like you !!! LOL and there was no where to hide

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Mindy said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Oh Sylivia…ahahahaha. you just reminded me of two more! One time I was in the bathroom, minding my own business and my oldest walked in and saw the…uh…little white cotton string hanging down, you know? I was like, SHUT THE DOOR and he ran out. When I came down the hall he was telling my Mother in Law that he saw “Mommy’s Mousey Tail!”

and another time we went shopping with friends. One of my friends was not very “girlie” in that she didn’t wear makeup and he hair was shorter. She had a very “girl” name and had been a family friend for years. While shopping she went into a dressing room to try on some stuff and Connor crawled under the dressing room door before I could grab him. “M” said,”He is okay, I’ve got him” and then we heard Connor exclaim. “Wait a minute, YOU’RE A GIRL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”

*sigh* kids are hysterical.

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Julie Tutwiler said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Oh which one to tell?

1) my then 5 year old daughter got in trouble in circle time at daycare, when told to settle down she stood up and put her hands on her hips. Teacher told her to sit down and instead she turned around and bare-butt mooned the teacher and the whole class

2) how about the time my daughter walked into the bathroom when I was on the toilet and then backed out upon seeing my “pad” and yelled at her father to call 911 because Mommy is bleeding in her pants
3) how about catching my son, as he ran out of the house completely NAKED to catch the bus because he didn’t want to miss it?

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Deleted User said 2 years, 5 months ago:

Seems like we’re on a potty streak here. I think Adia must have been four, might have been five. Impulsive to say the least. We were together in a public bathroom, and had gone in the large end stall, so the toilet was a long ways from the door. She went first and then while I was on the toilet, she walked to the door, unlatched it and walked out. leaving me on the toilet with the stall door wide open. I remember hollering (first and last name, mind you) for her to come back in there with me. I am sure the other women in the restroom thought it was hilarious. I didn’t at the time, to be sure. But it is funny in the retelling.

This is the same child who, one time while her dad’s parents were visiting, took a nap, but unbeknownst to us had not fallen asleep. Instead, she had proceeded to strip off all of her clothes and throw them out of her crib (she was probably 1 1/2 at the time), throw all her animals and etc out of her crib. We only discovered all this when she yelped – because she peed and it went down her legs. I was furious at the time, and embarrassed in front of my then husband’s family of perfectionists, but it is a pretty funny story now.

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Lisa Baldwin said 2 years, 5 months ago:

My almost 5 year old boy is big on making things move. We were walking through Target near the jewelry department and he gave a rotating watch stand a huge push. Watches went flying everywear and cases broke apart. I was mortified and my son was shocked! We picked them all up and a very nice Target lady came over put them all back. Funny now, but not then.

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Cassie said 2 years, 5 months ago:

When my now thirteen year old son was three or four, he liked to make up stories that were quite silly, but could be based on truth if you didn’t listen to the whole story. One of his favorite stories was how I would push him out the window, but he would yell, “My Momma pushes me out the window!” The last part of the story was, “My Daddy ran me over with a mower then and I put myself together with tape.” If someone only got part of the story, I would get soem nasty looks. My older hard of hearing neighbor was talking to him, and he wanted to talk to mew after. He wanted to know why I pushed him out the window. I had to make my son tell him the story four more times before he realized it was a tall tail. He was giving me dirty looks the whole time. I was so embarrassed, but kind of funny now.

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Pat Cowan said 2 years, 5 months ago:

We always used gender correct words with Andrew so I was really surprised when he started asking EVERY woman if she had a ”gyna”. I mean every women…we almost got kicked out of Mother’s day out for goodness sake!

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