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What your child did/said that made you smile today.

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    #2432
    Makood
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭Makood


    Two year old boy, and to the disdain of his Mammy, joined Daddy shaking that booty


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    #2433
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Lisha wrote: »
    Haha my 7year old refuses to look until we call the windmills by their correct name 'wind turbines' too. You wouldn't know to laugh or cry!!

    My 5 year old has started correcting my French, it's depressing! :D


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    #2434
    bp
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    xzanti wrote: »
    Driving out to the beach with my six year old and I said "hey look at the windmills".

    "They're wind turbines Mammy, the conduct electricity"

    That's me told.

    My 4 year old calls they "winter blinds" took me a while to realise she meant wind turbines and just cannot pronounce it


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    #2435
    [Deleted User]
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    Asked me to play my guitar for her so she could dance - and proceeded to dance around the kitchen for 15+ minutes while I strummed a few tunes for her. :D

    A small thing, but until recently, any time I picked it up, I was firmly told to put it back on its stand. Has become a little more receptive since I got a ukelele for her to mess around on.


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    #2436
    iguana
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,915 Mod ✭✭✭✭iguana


    S wanted to look at the website for his new toy obsession Rip-Spin Warriors. So he went to my laptop, worked out the sound and typed R into the address bar which immediately created a drop down menu. He's used to most things he looks for online being the first option in the drop down menu once he enters the first letter, so he hopefully said "Does this spell Rip-Spin Warriors" and clicked on it. The RTE News page appeared on the screen, there was two seconds of silence and I then heard "OH NO!!! THAT SPELLS NEWS?!?!"

    The mixture of outrage, contempt and disappointment that he managed to get get into those 5 words was so funny that I had to leave the room as I was laughing so hard.


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    #2437
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,908 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Turned around in the middle of a restaurant and asked (loudly) "Mammy, what's a turd?" :pac:


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    #2438
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "It's not number one or number two, and it's pronounced third" :D


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    #2439
    beertons
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    On the way out to Nan's this morning, half pint pulled out a loose tooth. He said he didn't enjoy his breakfast yesterday, so wanted it gone. Fair enough, I thought.


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    #2440
    bp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭bp


    My 2 year old and 4 year old played together for half an hour without fighting or calling my name.....new record!


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    #2441
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,072 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Didn't think I'd be back so soon.

    Drove to the village in Kildare town this morning. The whiff from the meat processing factory was lingering over the n7.

    Just as I got the whiff, a pair of voices from the back of the car go, Ah daddy, you're rotten.


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    #2442
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,312 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    The 12 year old asked today: Do they credit the person who writes the credits at the end of a program?!


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    #2443
    Romantic Rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Romantic Rose


    Missy had her 4th birthday last week and seemed to turn into a cheeky wee monkey overnight. Nothing I said could be right...

    That tree is very tall... No it's not.
    Those socks match your dress... No they don't.
    It's time to go in the car... No it's not.

    I decided to play her at her own game so today we were out walking and she told me that the tide was coming in. I told her that it wasn't. She turned around to me and said 'don't contradict me'!

    It's going to be a long road to adulthood :D


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    #2444
    Chocolate fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Chocolate fiend


    We were out lawnbowling at the weekend - (not as sad as it sounds, it is "cool" here) and my kids started playing with some other kids - my middle son who is 8 introduced his brother, who is 9 to his new friends as "my brother from another mother" he has no idea what it even means.


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    #2445
    Makapakka
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭Makapakka


    Romantic Rose wrote: »
    Missy had her 4th birthday last week and seemed to turn into a cheeky wee monkey overnight. Nothing I said could be right...

    That tree is very tall... No it's not.
    Those socks match your dress... No they don't.
    It's time to go in the car... No it's not.

    I decided to play her at her own game so today we were out walking and she told me that the tide was coming in. I told her that it wasn't. She turned around to me and said 'don't contradict me'!

    It's going to be a long road to adulthood :D

    Mine as just turned 4 too and is the exact same!


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    #2446
    thesimpsons
    Registered Users Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭thesimpsons


    daughter got her leaving cert results this morning - we're all smiling here. its been a very long 2 years with some terrible self imposed pressure on herself. CAO results don't come out until Monday but she should be ok.


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    #2447
    AidanadiA
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭AidanadiA


    thesimpsons wrote: »
    daughter got her leaving cert results this morning - we're all smiling here. its been a very long 2 years with some terrible self imposed pressure on herself. CAO results don't come out until Monday but she should be ok.

    Congratulations!!


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    #2448
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    A friend's child who is 11 is after winning a gold medal in their speech and drama exam. It's a big deal from them as the child didn't speak until they were three.

    #NeverGiveUp


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    #2449
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    He lost his first tooth this morning :D he's over the moon.

    First ever visit from the Tooth Fairy.

    He is however, already trying to negotiate the rules of tooth retrieval. I think he wants to hold onto the tooth and still get paid :o we'll have to have a sit down today :D


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    #2450
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Waking my daughter up today reminding her that it's her first day back at school.
    She responded by saying 'So does that mean Christmas is coming soon?'

    I like how her mind works


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    #2451
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,709 ✭✭✭✭josip


    (Mammy had some eczema lately)
    [7yo] "Will you have to hospital?
    [Mammy] No
    [7yo] "But daddy had to go to hospital when he had romania" (pneumonia)


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    #2452
    yellow hen
    Registered Users Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭yellow hen


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    A friend's child who is 11 is after winning a gold medal in their speech and drama exam. It's a big deal from them as the child didn't speak until they were three.

    #NeverGiveUp

    My now 4.5yr old didn't speak until he was nearly 3 and it's been, and still is, a long slow road to catch up with his peers. Having said that, his imagination has gotten much better and he intrepets everyday things into something fabulous....today a baby carrot sticking up out of his mash is just like an elephants trunk drinking some water :) I think if his confidence allowed it he'd do great in drama. I used to feel so sad at the delay, now I just feel so lucky to hear that little voice every day :)


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    #2453
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    On the same theme, my little fella hasn't seen his cousin since last year. Last year, when the cousin was four, he had big problems with his hearing (only 40% hearing) and speech. It was quite difficult to understand what he said. He had grommets put in last Autumn. We met him last week and the difference is like night and day! He can hear everything and his speech is so much better. Really made me smile.
    (Didn't make a difference either way for my little lad, the two of them always got on like a house on fire, kids are great!)


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    #2454
    dubstarr
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    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    A friend's child who is 11 is after winning a gold medal in their speech and drama exam. It's a big deal from them as the child didn't speak until they were three.

    #NeverGiveUp

    Ye my son has select mutism.Its getting much better with a lot of help from the school.

    Hes nearly 8 and didnt speak at all for the 2 hears in playschool.And didnt talk for 2 years of school.

    Hes just gone into second and before the holidays,he got student of the year for his class.I was every so proud.

    Its a hard slog but with the right help it can be done.


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    #2455
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    All weeks he's been asking me if it's Halloween yet.


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    #2456
    beans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    Empathy for the mouse I showed her in a trap this morning. "Poor mouse", says she. "Won't be going home?"

    She points to the other two empty traps, and asks "Those traps for his Mammy and Daddy?"

    They sure are :)


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    #2457
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,709 ✭✭✭✭josip


    The levels of empathy sometimes border on the ridiculous.
    Our guy wouldn't eat his tomato over the weekend, just because I'd stabbed it with the knife and left it sticking in it.
    I then compounded my mistake by saying he didn't have to eat it, he could eat one of its brothers or sisters in the pack instead.

    I came down this morning to my wife trying to cajole him into eating a tomato by swearing to him that none of the tomatoes in the new pack were related.


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    #2458
    sword1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭sword1


    thesimpsons wrote: »
    daughter got her leaving cert results this morning - we're all smiling here. its been a very long 2 years with some terrible self imposed pressure on herself. CAO results don't come out until Monday but she should be ok.

    Made me smile to see this, not what I expected to see in the thread but it is well within the title. What next though, I smiled because my child got their pension. If so noirin o sullivan mother would be smiling after insisting her daughter got a good pensionable job.


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    #2459
    Dickerty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    I have two 11 year olds, a 6yo and a 2yo. They all do things to amuse me. But the 6yo is especially inquisitive and asks very smart questions. We were reading a book about space last night, it was talking about when the sun would die (in billions of years), and he said "Well, we'll all be bones by then!"


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    #2460
    elly123
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭elly123


    My husband was telling my 4 yo son that he is wrecked tired from working so much over the last week or so. 4 yo son replies with "Well dad Life is not always full of fairy tales and cupcakes you know" I think 4 yo is watching too much Trolls :)


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    #2461
    PLL
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    I have a very confident and sociable six year old daughter. Chats to staff in shops about what she did in school today. However, she started swimming lessons yesterday and this is an area she isn't confident in, and I've never seen her so vulnerable. She instantly went back to being my tiny newborn baby that I wanted to protect. After reassuring her she would be fine, she found a friend to walk to the pool with, whilst I sat in the stands. Every time she did something right in her lesson she looked over to me in the stands and shouted 'I did it!' - she was so proud of herself, it was so wonderful to see.


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