Prompted by another thread little ones have a real knack of saying exactly what they think making their parents wish for a hole to open up beneath them.
When I was very small we were at the village post office. There was a lady we knew there who was somewhat rotund. In a very loud voice I said to my mother "Is Mrs Smith having twins?"
Have your little ones done this to you? Or did you do this to your parents?
Whilst sitting in a shopping trolley in Sainsburys, my youngest (who was 3 at the time) explained, at the top of her voice, that all black people come from Scotland, and they are very distinguished.
She then proceeded to tell me that the brown lady at nursery had stinky curry breath.
I was once taking a group of boys on a walk through a French village when a group of French boys strted taunting them, using the expression "tête d'noeud". I was asked what it meant. With hindsight I should have said I didn't know but I was reluctant to lose street cred by admitting I didn't know proper French so I told them ("dick-head"). Bad move on my part; they never missed an opportunity to use it. The French teacher was not best pleased, even though she didn't know what it meant.
My next door neighbour was selling à car, my daughter went out and stood around watching for a bit before announcing, that car is really good, it goes puft, puft, bang all the time. Needless to say the car wasn't sold that day.
What worries me are where the kids getting their little racially offensive comments from? Surely they’re learning from the parents or one other family member?
When I was very young we used to go to church. I couldn't pronounce the word music properly. Whenever the organ stopped, I would pipe up in a loud voice, "Mustic all gone." All eyes were on me.
Children's Hospital and bottle neck at the door to the X ray dept.
Bed in the doorway and a little voice rang out:
" is that child dead?"
Grandfather had nowhere to put himself - I reassured the on-looker.
The 'dead' child was unfazed