From The Mouths Of Babes

So my daughter Lauren works at a park. Every now and then she comes home with a funny story about the kids that are part of the park program.

Last night, she told me a story about her friend's young niece that reminded me of a story about my youngest daughter Jordan when she was little.

Lauren told me that the friend's niece was at the nail shop when a VERY VERY LARGE woman walked in. As the woman went to sit down in the chair to get her feet done the little girl looked at her with a fretful face and shouted, "NOOO, it's gonna break!"

Now...adults know better than to say such things (even if it may have been true), but children don't have "filters". They tell it like it is. Not saying that it's right, but it is what it is.

So that incident reminded me of one that happened when my daughter Jordan was 3 years old.

Now I'm a big woman...plus-sized, overweight, fat...call it what you will. So I have to shop at the "big girl" stores.

So when Jordan was 3, I had her with me while I shopped at Lane Bryant. As we're in line at the register Jordan notices the VERY VERY Large woman in front of us and she says to me, "Mommy, that lady is a big ol' fat".

I was sooo embarrassed and wanted to crawl under a rock. I apologized to the woman and told Jordan that her words were not nice and that she needed to apologize. So she goes up to the woman and says in her adorable little 3 year old voice, "Lady, I'm sorry you're a big ol' fat."

Ok. At that point I needed someone to DROP a rock ON me.

That wasn't quite the apology I meant, but I understood that in her 3 year old mind, the apology was sufficient. At the very least, it was honest. Which leads us to today's topic...

Let the DIALOGUE begin! What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever heard a child say?

Talk to me!

Til next time...