How to get something so wrong, its funny!
Last weekend we took a family trip to London, we spent so much time travelling to and from places on trains and the tube.
On our final day we took our last tube and we were all so tired, the tube was very quiet and full, so you can imagine my shock when my 11-year-old son asked rather loudly ” What is a Prostitute? ”
I was so shocked and speechless for once, how could I start informing him just what a prostitute was whilst on a busy tube packed with people.
Plenty of people lifted their heads to see where this load voice was coming from, my husband as usual stayed silent so it was down to me to try to squirm out of explaining the truth whilst sat there on the tube.
I explained quietly I would tell him to him later when we get off the tube, luckily he accepted this so later that day I sat him down and explained in the most simplest and least graphical way what a prostitute was.
He listened to my explanation and acted very grown up about the information I was giving him, he actually acted more grown up than my husband (who was laughing the whole time). After I had explained he asked me ” Why do you get Prosecuted for not having a ticket on the tube though?
He had been sat reading the signs around and was wanting to know what Prosecution meant not Prostitution!, oh the joys even my husband was gob smacked because he as well as everyone else on the tube thought he said Prostitution.
I had sat and explained to my poor innocent son just what a prostitute was, when all he actually wanted to know was what Prosecution meant!
I am sure I have had lots more embarrassing moments in the past especially when the boys were younger, now as they get older it has flipped and it is me that causes them to have embarrassing moments!
Have you ever explained incorrectly or had an embarrassing moment with you child?
Help,my son wont stop swearing
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Hayley F says
oh my goodness this did make me chuckle. i remember my nephews asked me once” why do i have boobies”. i was chuffed at the time as i was flat chested x
Rachel Hirst says
Ha brilliant that really made me laugh, Kids they say some really funny things don’t they.
Kim Carberry says
hahaha! Made me chuckle..
Watching something on TV and a boy proposes to another boy and my eldest says ‘they can’t get married’…..I go into a whole speech about how boys and boys and girls and girls can get married now…There’s nothing wrong about it….She looked at me like I was stupid and said ‘I know that! They can’t get married because they are still at school’….lol
Teresa Sheldon says
This really tickled me, typical dad keeping quiet pretending he didn’t hear and leaving you to face the barrage of questions and peoples looks luckily I havn’t had any experiences like yours. Its a great story to tell his girlfriends in a few years, you can then see him have a cringwothy moment
Amanda Milton says
Haha,this made my smile,I am always doing the most embarrasing things,most recently,must have been when I went into KFC,slipped on the newly mopped fall and skidded on my backside to the counter!!haha
Rachel Hirst says
Glad I am not the only one who has embarrassing moments,Not glad you slipt on the mopped floor though!!!
Daniella says
This made me laugh! My 13 year old daughter now does this kind of thing on purpose even when she knows fine well what something means!
laura jane says
ooh kids, gotta love them!
I was serving at work the other week and a little girl looked at her nan, looked at me and then smiled as she said ‘nanny..that lady has big boobies like mummy does’
I couldn’t help but giggle and blush!