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

My boy (2 at end of September) is starting to be a bit wriggly and not really a fan of getting into the car seat. Usually involves a bit of conversation and reasoning when we are leaving nursery on the way home in the evening.
I told him that if we don't sit in our seats with our belts on that the police will take daddys car and then we wont be happy, so he thinks about it a few seconds and eventually gets into seat and agrees.
On the drive home multiple time he told me that the "post man will take daddys car, no happy"

I think I have really confused him now as about a month ago we had a very indepth conversation about the Postman and what he was doing pushing a post cart around the neighbourhood.

Our 8 year old went to bed about 8pm last night, we could here her getting up around 9pm, so shouted up what she was doing up

"I can't sleep and looking for a bitta craic, can I sit with you's"

we burst out laughing and gave her ten minutes on the couch

7year old is trying to get her head around funerals, coffins and cremations, lying in the bed last week chatting she asks me will I be in a coffin.
"No, I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered at sea"

"Can I mind them Dad?"

I dunno maybe it's me but that's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

had to post

Not my kid but my niece is 10 in 5th class and struggles with her group, she's been left out of bday parties, laughed at for not having the latest gear/watching the right TV shows/not going to the same sports etc

Apparently recently in school, teacher heard 2 of the girls berating her over her PE runners and took the 2 up to her desk to have a chat. A boy in class heard what the teacher was telling them about not being mean, and came up to niece at gate after school to tell her not to listen to the girls and 'those guys are really embarrassing themselves' by being mean

My brother said she never came home so happy in weeks

farmchoice wrote: »

its good that she is happy and i dont want to derail this lovely thread but for what its worth your niece is too young for her class and that is probably where her problems are coming from. her parents should keep her back next year, in fact they should have done it long before now, there are plenty of 10 year olds in 3rd class let alone 5th class.
this is going to keep happening in secondary school as well, she will be much younger than most if not all of her classmates.

Don't want to derail the thread either but no way are there plenty of 10 year olds in third class.

At this moment in time - October, two months into the start of the school year - typically half the kids in fifth class are ten and half the kids in fifth class are eleven. The oldest would typically turn eleven around May of fourth class, the youngest would typically turn eleven around May of fifth class.

Half the kids in third class are 9 and half of them are 8.

The issue this girl has is that the girls in her class behaving badly, as are their parents. its one thing for children to exclude her, its quite another to be excluded from parties. That ultimately is a parental situation. No way (as a parent) would I tolerate a situation where a child is saying -I'm inviting all the girls except that one and that one. Its sounds like there is something wrong going on here. Of course there is more detail and that's for your sister to work out, but on what you've said, I wouldn't be a bit impressed with that carry on.

On the flip side, its wonderful when kids show empathy like the boy did in that situation. Particularly when its a gang type situation, and peer pressure would suggest that you don't want to be associating with the weak person or the target.

If I were her - I would say to that boy, without being flowery about it - I was feeling very low after what those girls did, and what you said to me really cheered me up and made feel better, and thank you very much for the help you gave me.

If he was brave enough to say it, maybe she would be too.

I'd be tempted to praise the wee boy myself and say thank you if you bump into him- and tellbhis patents what a fantastic young man they are raising.

16 month old girl trying to rip her socks off in the back seat of the car repeatedly saying Sh!t because they won’t come off

Our 4 year old boy in the car with us and a large flock of birds passed by us down near sutton cross. I said "look at the flock of birds" and he replied what's a "**** of birds dada?"

Didn't know where to look

Grandfather was taking my daughter to the new supermarket for the first time. They got lost a little bit and arrived later. When they came back from this "trip", grandmother asked my daughter how her trip was, and she said, ‘We met a lot of people named Dick.'

We were going into a cafe, and there was a Santa decoration with a big Welcome sign at the door. My son is only learning to read, and he's very proud of himself when he can read things when we're out and about. So he yells at the top of his voice, "LOOK MOM, they have a sign here to make us feel WELCOME! Do you feel WELCOME here? Because I sure do!"

He had all the staff and customers in bits laughing at us, it was so cute though.

Got a call from my "Little Boy" ( he is 48 ) ." Dad I"m going to put lots of money in your pocket , back Davy Russell on Sunday" . Made me smile anyway.

Said in a robot style voice

" I am a robot....I am programmed for cuddles"

Then proceeded to jump on top of me and give me a massive cuddle