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Every parent has been there: You take your young child out into the world and they do or say something that makes you absolutely cringe. You apologize profusely and remove your child from the situation as quickly as possible -- but you wish you could just disappear. So embarrassing! The inappropriate questions to strangers, the impromptu stripteases in public places, the public potty mishaps, the restaurant horror stories...it's enough to make us cower in shame.
Because one parent's humiliation is another parent's giggle, we wanted to gather together some of the most mortifying parental moments we could find. We asked real parents from both the ParentDish and CafeMom.com communities to share their disgraces...and to our delight, they delivered in spades! Enjoy...
Because one parent's humiliation is another parent's giggle, we wanted to gather together some of the most mortifying parental moments we could find. We asked real parents from both the ParentDish and CafeMom.com communities to share their disgraces...and to our delight, they delivered in spades! Enjoy...
Parents Most Embarrassing Moments
When I was pregnant, my sister explained to her 3½-year-old daughter that the reason my tummy was so big was because there was a baby in there. In the grocery store a few days later, an overweight woman walked by and my niece yells, "Mommy, mommy...how many babies does she have in HER tummy?"
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When my son was about 8 months old at Mommy and Me swimming class, he pulled my bathing suit top down while we were getting into the pool. I was mortified to discover that a daddy who was there with his son got a nice view of me without a top!
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We were at the golf course where Daddy was playing a round. I took my eyes off my son, 3, for a minute to scan the course. When I looked back, he had dropped his shorts and was peeing into the little golf ball cup in the middle of a green! Perfect aim, of course. I grabbed his sisters, loaded them up in the cart, started to back away and he came running. We pulled out of there so fast! I'm sure whoever was up next to golf that hole had an interesting round!
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When my son was 15 months old, he was really into elephants and trumpeting like an elephant while raising his arm like the trunk every time he saw one. We were on a walk one day, and a large woman was walking past us; my son raised his arm and trumpeted like he saw an elephant. I was mortified.
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Both of these things happened on the same trip to the grocery store. My 3-year-old son and I were shopping, and there was an older man with a large stomach in the aisle with us. He started chatting up my son. After about two questions from the man, my son blurted out to me (as if the man wasn't standing RIGHT there), "Mommy, why his belly so big?! He got a baby in there, too?" The man just walked away. A few aisles down, there was another man with no teeth. He was older and his lips were sunken in. Well, my son noticed and said, as loud as he could, "Mommy, why he do this?" and proceeded to suck his lips in around his teeth and "gum" his mouth up and down.
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I was a single mom with my first child. I had been dating a guy for a bit and decided to let him meet my son, who was about 2½ years old at the time. The guy was in the middle of talking to him and my son asked, "Why are your teeth the color of mustard?"
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We have a new baby on the way, and I was explaining to our 2½-year-old son that babies don't eat food like us, they drink milk from mama. One day at day care, as his provider knelt down to give him his goodbye hugs and kiss, instead of hugging he yanked the top of her shirt down, grabbed her boob, and said, "Baby milk?" All before I could even react! I was absolutely MORTIFIED! I could feel my face turning bright red as I tried to tactfully release his death grip on her shirt.
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We went to the local Walmart and my 3-year-old son saw this lady with a rather large butt. He walks over to her, puts his finger right in her butt crack and says, "Big butt!"
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I have three grown children who have embarrassed me many times. The most memorable was my son when he was 5 years old. He fell straddle on a steamer trunk (the metal kind) and sustained an injury to his penis. When the swelling went down, the doctors felt he needed a partial circumcision. At the grocery store about four days later, a little old lady came up to us in the produce aisle commenting on how cute my son and newborn daughter were and my son says, "I have an owie on my horsie, want to see?" At this point, he had began calling his penis a horse, no idea where he got that from! Anyway, he proceeded to whip down his pants to show her. I thought that poor old lady was going to faint.
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We were on line at Costco, waiting forever to get checked out when my 3-year-old daughter (with horror in her eyes) shouted, "MOM, look at that scary man!" So I turn around...and it was an extremely unattractive LADY! I didn't know where to go, because I was surrounded by people and it's not easy moving around once you are on line. Meanwhile, my daughter didn't stop -- "MOMMY, it's not Halloween, why is that man so scary!?" The woman was shocked. I finally shut my daughter up by opening an unpaid-for bag of chips, which she started munching on.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:04PM
floodalchemist said...Already a cafemom member and yes there are embarassing moments thats why I leave my child home with her father.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:04PM
Naoma said...I was going to comment and tell a funny story about my grandkids but the neo-goody two shoe people correcting all the mistakes, have taken all the fun out of the stories.
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6-21-2009 @ 12:19AM
Jessica said...That is so true!
6-19-2009 @ 7:07PM
Helen said...My mother in law who was very full figured and wearing a moo moo type dress took my 3 year old son shopping. He decided to play a game of hide and seek under her dress, the more she turned to get him out from underneath the dress the higher he held it up to show her where he was hiding. That was over 35 years ago and we still laugh at the site of her trying to get him out from underneath and still have some dignity left.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:29PM
Eddygh said...I was with my then girlfriend and her 2 sons at a resturant, when a baldheaded man wlaked by and the older one yelled "How come that man has no hair on his head?" My girlfriend was mortified.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:34PM
Asti13 said...When my daughter was about 2 or 3, we were in the grocery store near the meat department and she suddenly said, "Mommy? What's the smell? Is it boobs, or is it butt?" I was so shocked I didn't even say anything - we just left.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:57PM
Michonne said...One day I was with my 1 year old son in Fry's grocery store and I was almost done with my shopping when I realized that he had a "Blow Out" in his diaper - I mean it was all over his clothes, coming out the sides and all over his back and the cart.
OMG I was horrified - so as I was paying I was doing my best to clean it up with paper towels and the teenage bagger all of a sudden realized that it was his breaktime and another teenager came over with eyes the size of saucers. I swear he was so scared to help me with my groceries. I had to plead for help to the car. I will never forget that -
I laughed afterwards at the thought of this poor kids face.
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6-20-2009 @ 6:43AM
AJ said...My oldest daughter-who is now 13-used to love the little candies called Nerds. The Nerds were usually in a little shelf as you stand in line, and one day she excitedly asked quite loudly if we got get some "turds"!! Myself and everyone in earshot were laughing histerically-the poor girls checker was crying she was laughing so loud.
6-19-2009 @ 8:27PM
Robin said...My funny story is when my son was 5, he had a pair of toy handcuffs. He took them with us to the grocery store & put them on the cart. After checkout and we attempted leave, the cuffs would not unlock. Trust me... I did not go back with MY keys.
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6-19-2009 @ 7:57PM
Rtalented said...When my dad was little my grandma would always yell "DENNIE DAMNIT" when he got into trouble so when he went to kindergarden and the teacher took attendance he wouldnt answer because he thought his name was Dennie-Damnit for a month
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6-19-2009 @ 7:53PM
Gammaw said...My 4 year old grandson loves his dachshund puppy that he has named, " Weenie". He gets so excited when he sees others with the same breed of dog. On a recent camping trip a large burley man walked by our campsite with his little dachshund puppy in tow. My grandson charged over to the man and excitedly ask, "Oh, oh....can I pet your weenie??". My innocent little grandson was really surprised that the man ignored him! (we died laughing...the guy probably thought we were perverts!)
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6-19-2009 @ 7:57PM
jeff said...I thought this one was funny and wanted to share a good laugh, looks like we really need one.
It was about 1979 (I'm guessing) and my then wife and son were simply browsing at the local department store. I wasn't there to witness it, but my oldest son, at about two years of age, spotted what I believe to be a member of a local motorcycle gang. He was a big man, black leather jacket, blue jeans, biker's boots, and had the long chain attached to his wallet..., oh yeah, I almost forgot! He had really long hair.
My son was a little perplexed about his appearance. After studying this fellow for a few seconds he stood up in the shopping cart and loudly proclaimed, "Look Mommy! It's a she-man!" My wife made a quick exit. She related the story to me a while later, and I almost cryed laughing. Hey, he was only two and he was doing the best he could.
Hope you enjoyed the story.
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6-19-2009 @ 8:00PM
Brian said...six is right -- 'My two sons and me." This nation sounds more and more like a country fully of hillbillies.
On TV shows like Jerry Springer, the people on stage are always hollerin' "Me and my step-daughter." So "Me and my two sons" by a poster here is soooooooo hillbillie. Puleeesz.
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6-19-2009 @ 8:00PM
lilly grabowski said...I carried my younger sons to watch their older play a little League game when my 3 year old whipped it out and urinated in front of everyone. My face must have turned purple.
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6-19-2009 @ 8:07PM
bzzzzz said...most of these parents' "embarrassing" moments are due to their kids being big obnoxious untrained unmannerly BRATS! Most of the rude remarks made had to have been heard from the doting parents themselves. Puke.
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6-19-2009 @ 8:06PM
scoobymack said...My 11 year old son has always been out spoken at 4 he said to his teacher in front of my wife "Did you brush your teeth today,because your breath stinks" http://www.image-is-us.com/Create/Default.aspx
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6-19-2009 @ 8:24PM
Sara said...When our daughter was born we had some family over for them to meet her. I was changing her diaper when my 2 year old son yelled out "Look, baby doesn't have a penis. Daddy broke it off and Mommy needs to fix it." I don't know where he got the broke off and fixing it part, but we all had a good laugh at his innocence.
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6-19-2009 @ 8:30PM
Sara said...I was at the local Safeway with my 20 monty old daugher. She was in the child seat of the cart with her legs spread out across the seat. She was asking for a lot of hugs and kisses (witch I gave feeley). An older lady comes up to her and says "my, what a sweet young lady you are." My daughters reply was (what she learned from her dad and 3 year old brother) a raspberry as she lifter her leg high in the air then stating "Ewwe, Stinky Butt!" I wanted to die!
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6-20-2009 @ 1:08PM
Don said...When I was little, my dad & I went to Kmart. The cashier at the checkout was "well endowed".. I guess I wanted a better view, as I reached over, and pulled her blouse down.... Sadly I can no longer get away with those kinds of actions!
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6-20-2009 @ 12:36AM
my bro said...LOL..Once my brother when he was about eleven, he was asked who he's favorite president was, and he answered "Abraham Lincoln!" When asked why he replied, "Because he freed the 'brown people' like me!" He though he was black! (we are actually hispanic, though he has very tan skin)
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