Silly Stories
Remember all those silly and embarrassing moments? The ones that make you cringe for days - weeks - months afterwards? Share them with Adoption UK's Online Community and lighten everyone's day!
My son had been told previously to sit on the bottom step of the stairs at his grandparents house. Shortly after his grampy did something his grandmother was not happy with, so he promptly went to his grampy and said "grampy - you have to sit on the stairs and you have to stay there until you've thought about your behaviour and you can promise nanny not to do it again". Prompted by nanny, grampy sits on the stairs because he's been naughty (comedy value for mummy and nanny really) and when grampy comes to move after about 30 seconds, my son watching his grampy intently said "no grampy - you can't move until nanny says, you'll be sitting there for a long time, shall I get you a book?".
from Sarah
A few months after our children were placed, we were on a long journey in the car, and the topic of the final adoption came up with our eldest (aged 6 at the time). The phrase "when you're adopted...." was repeated a lot. Our youngest, who was 3, was obviously listening intently, but not saying much. Finally he piped up in a cross voice "I don't want to be a doctor".
from Diddyman
A few months ago, when my son was five, we were having a discussion about birth mothers. A while later he asked me if I were my dog's birth mother? “No darling,” I replied, “he's adopted. Everyone's adopted in our family.” But what does this say about me if he thinks I am the mother of a dog?
from Oss
I was trying to explain adoption to my sister's children and related the story of Paddington Bear (as he was adopted) when my niece excitedly shouts out "so how many bears will you be getting then?" She thought we would be adopting teddy bears like Paddington - think we have a bit further to go before she fully understands!
from everhopeful
Son (aged four): Practice makes perfect.
Dad: That's right. Who told you that?
Son: Bob.
Dad: Bob who?
Son: Bob the Builder
from Diddyman
We have been placed with a two and a half year old boy who is absolutely gorgeous and we love him to bits. We had some potential buyers round to view our house and he followed us around the house into each room. The couple wanted to look out in the garden (it was raining) so I left the little one playing with his toys in the lounge for a few minutes. I checked by looking through the conservatory that he was ok and to my horror he had decided to put his hands in his dirty nappy and was wiping pooh all over the bright red new carpet and expensive leather suite. I quickly ran in and attended to him and the potential buyers soon hot footed it away. They had said that they loved the carpet, but I doubt they do now! Thanks son!
from Beth
A stray dog suddenly arrived in our front garden one tea time. We were concerned for its safety as we live quite near a main road and it also looked as if it had an injury to one of its legs. I was on the phone to the local 24 hour emergency vets, who were asking me lots of questions about the dog. When it came to the sex of the dog I said I didn't know. I called to my husband to ask him, at which point my little boy piped up "it's a girl mummy - I can see its udders!"
from Bee
My son and I were walking to the bus stop to get our lift to school, when we saw smoke coming out of the post box. My son turned to me and said: “It looks like it’s having a fag.”
from Bmd
We were talking at the dinner table about families and how they come about in many ways, when my daughter pipes up “women adopt children because they are too lazy to have them.” We thought this was hilarious.
from Lovely
Sitting in the barbers’ with our son and daughter waiting for our turn, a man walks in with white hair and a white beard. At the top of his voice our son shouts: “Look, there is Father Christmas!”
from Spiderfilm
I am a single female adopter, my four-year-old son was only with me a week when we went out on our first supermarket shopping trip. I asked him to help me find the jam, we searched the aisles and finally found it and he turned to me and said: "Now we can look for a Daddy!"
from Mickie
My three kids come out with loads of funny things. Some of the most recent are:
“Mummy you've got your knickers on back to front, your fat is hanging out!” (I had a thong on!)
“Daddy you look like one of those wrestlers, you know, a sumo!”
“Mummy, why aren't your boobies pointy like Barbie’s? Yours are all baggy!”
They also like to remind grown ups to please and thank you, which can be really embarrassing!
One of the funniest things is when I get my hair done - you can always rely on the children to tell you honestly what they think!
from Crazy Mum
Took our son to a beauty shop and allowed him in the room while having my legs waxed. He watched intently and then asked what I was having done.
Son: “What are you doing Mummy?
Mummy: “Having my legs waxed.”
Son: “What does that mean?”
Mummy: “Well mummy does not want to have hairy legs so she comes to see this nice lady who removes all the hair.”
Son: “How does she do it?”
Mummy: “If you watch her you will see that she puts wax on Mummy’s legs and then pulls the hair.”
Son: “Stop lady! It is very rude and nasty to pull hair. You need to sit on the naughty chair for three minutes, isn’t that right Mummy?”
Not sure who tried hardest to not laugh the beautician or me!
from Anon
My 10-year-old daughter is loving her history topic of the moment “The Tudors” and more specifically the colourful life of Henry VIII. She recently went on a school visit to the Tower of London as part of this topic. Later that evening, she was recounting the stories she had heard about Henry and his wives… After a few minutes she said all innocently “Mummy, are you a prostitute?” I looked at her in open mouthed disbelief until the penny dropped, she actually meant “Mummy, are you a protestant?” She still doesn’t quite understand what we found so funny!
from Ember
One of our silly stories was with my, then, nine-year-old daughter when we first started on our adoption process. We discussed with all of the children our wish to adopt a child and kept them fully included with all of the social worker visits etc, so they were pretty clued up on adoption (or so I thought). Then we went for a day out to Chester Zoo where an advertising board advertising for adopters for one of the animals. "MuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuM can we?
from Happy2