Kids say the funniest things
I love hearing children talk. I love listening to them experiment with language. They make such innocent mistakes. I love their literal explanation of everything they see. They often say things openly that any adult would cringe at, shy away from and blush the colour of a tomato!
Have you ever been in a public toilet and heard another child talk very loudly to their parent about private things? I think most of us have. So innocent!
I thought I’d write a round up of all the things my children have said and done and things I’ve heard others say too. It always makes me smile.
Children’s mispronunciations
- When my son was little, one of his first words was clock, only, he pronounced it as ‘cock’! That was fine, except everywhere we went, he’d point to a clock and shout ‘cock’, yes even in the supermarket! It turned a few heads I can tell you!
- Chocolate cake initially started out as ‘plop-plop cake’.
- Computer used to be pronounced as ‘percooter’. I always thought that was so cute!
- Hairclips are ‘plips’ even to this day.
- Kiwis are ‘kiniwiwis’! Goodness knows why my twins want to make a word even longer and more complicated than it needs to be?!
- Over dinner one of my girls asked “what is this?” I replied “It’s like a puff pastry pizza”, she repeated back “What? A puff pastry ‘pisser’?! I actually cried laughing, wicked mother that I am!
- Peacocks are ‘keycocks’
Funny questions kids ask
- “Did the three wise men buy their presents in a shop?” (age 3)
- “Dinosaurs aren’t real are they?” Then answers own question “Not this time of year!”
- “What are eyebrows for?”
- “Why does your tummy get empty?”
- “How did you make me?” (whilst walking into school) then said “Did you have to get all the bones and bits?” (Ermmm, not the right moment to answer that question walking through the school gates!) (Age 5)
- One of my twins (girls) said ”We were in your tummy weren’t we?” I replied “Yes”, she then said “And our brother was in daddy’s tummy wasn’t he?” (Ermmm, NO, Wish that was possible!)
- “Who will be my Nanny, now that Nanny (Grandmother) has retired?”
- “If I eat more food, will my birthday come more quickly?” (as eating food helps you grow, so if he eats more, he’ll grow more and get older quicker).
Funny things kids say
- BB was asked (aged 2) “where do pinecones come from”? He replies “pineapple trees
- BB was asked (aged 2) “where does cheese come from?” He replied “mice”!
- When Pinky (aged 2) was asked “where does milk come from?” she replied “the kitchen” (Looking at us like we were mad not to know that?!)
- In our house pins and needles are called ‘Fizzy feet’ – I love that!
- In June Daddy refitted the bathroom & BB aged 4 said “Wow, you’ve finished the bathroom daddy, and you did it before christmas!” (We did laugh!)
- “You have to go to Spain in a space rocket” (Aged 3)
- After a trip to the toilet in a quiet restaurant, a boy comes back to the table and says in a very loud voice “Daddy’s got a willy like fireman Sam’s hose!”
- In a public toilet cubicle (so everything can be heard) a little girl says “Mummy, you’ve got a hairy bottom!”
- “We can’t run really, really fast, our legs will run out of air” (aged 3)
- “Newspaper grows on trees”
- When asked do you live in ******* Road?, 3 year old answers, “No, I live in a house!”
I absolutely love these quotes, they make me smile every time I think about them. You must admit, kids say the funniest things, don’t they?
What funny things do or have your children said?
Linking to The Reading Residence
Love it! Certainly made me smile. Our daughter is just starting to come into her own with talking so sure we’ve got more of this to come.
Ah, write them down, or you forget. Enjoy those moments
Children are a good reason to be happy! #spreadalittlehappiness
They definitely are
Gotta love kids for their comic timing!
Oh definitely!
This really made me smile, I love it! Kids say the funniest things. My almost 18 month calls chocolate “cock cock” hehe
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Haha! great
hahaha! Made me smile! Gotta love kids!
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I love hearing their mistakes!
Love it. Got a point re: the eyebrow question though…….. #spreadalittlehappiness
Lol this made me chuckle. My two have come out with some right corkers and always at the most innapropriate times
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Love this! They do so such funny things, and it can be the pronunciations that are as funny as the questions
Thanks for joining in with #SpreadALittleHappiness x
Very cute, I love all the mispronunciations and funny questions. My 23mo still talks about Pipiss on an almost daily basis
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they are hilarious – love the kiwi and pisser and where pinecones come from. #spreadalittlehappiness x
Thanks, I did enjoy writing it
My little man also says “cock” instead of clock. At least my parents could see the funny side on Christmas Day! Lovely quotes x
It does make you smile doesn’t it! x
Very funny quotes
I love the mistakes kids make, they are so cute and funny 
Hahaha, made me laugh out loud! The notebook where I record those funny things my little ones say is my all-time favourite read! x Mel #SpreadALittleHappiness
It’s so nice hearing the things they say and keeping a record of it
Love this post! kids quotes are simply amazing. I’ve made a little booklet to write down all the boys quotes (hopefully do a post on it one day!) and I’m going to start posting more regularly with quotes as they’re so lovely! I actually wanted to start a linky this year called quote of the week but wasn’t sure anyone would be interested! Oh well :p I loveeee B’s quote about pinecones coming from pineapple trees – genious! xx
Thank you, it is something I want to remember about my kids early years, so cute x
hahaha! You have to love kids and the things they come out with x
I love it
I absolutely adore stuff like this – kids are hilarious. My Mum always tells people about the time I was small when she received a card from a family called the Shepherds I asked where the one from the Wise Men was! Thank you for linking to PoCoLo x
Haha! Brilliant! Kids are hilarious, a comedian couldn’t come up with the stuff they do!
Who needs comedians when you have children?!
Very true!
These are all adorable – chocolate in our house is still clock clock because we thought it was so cute. My 9 year old is not impressed with us these days
Would love you to link up to my Wot so Funee? too with this one – it would be perfect!
Thank you, kids say such cute, funny stuff
Hee hee, we went through the ‘cock’ for ‘clock’ stage as well. Mind you, the funniest one I heard recently is a friend’s daughter who can’t say popcorn, it comes out ‘cockporn’ imagine that one in public!!
Haha! Yes, I LOVE that one
My favourite one with this at the moment is my daughter calls “sticks” – “dicks” so when she copies her Daddy being cross she says “Fiddledicks” *snigger*
Haha! That’s great, love it!
Hehe I used to love when Little Z mispronounced “clock” too – it didn’t last long but it did give us plenty of giggles!
It is very amusing isn’t it!
some of these are corkers!! thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments xx
Thanks x
So so funny! I LOVE fizzy feet! My boy also calls the computer the ‘poot’ and instead of everybody says ‘all-bodies’. The daft thing is now so do we! Thanks so much for sharing with the pin it party x
We still use the term fizzy feet as I love it so much.
I laughed out loud about fireman sams hose!! In our house blueberries are known as boobies and my 4 year old calls an escalator and aligator!!
Haha! Love the boobies for blueberries!
Oh you have made my day with that. Hilarious. My 2 year is starting to talk nonstop so we have a Phrase Day Friday where I say the craziness that comes from his mouth. I love it. I really enjoyed reading yours. Highly entertaining when kids are learning to talk and just get it a little wrong. #wotssofunee
I love it!
Hehe I really love this age. It’s so do funny even if its slightly mortifying for the parent in a very public hairy bottom situation. Hehe
Yeah, I know, luckily that situation was my friends, not mine
I’m not sure I fancy any plop plop cake
Lol! We did laugh at that every time she said it!
The pasta obsessives in this house regularly order ‘spaghetti carbanana’… Sometimes the mistakes just stick…
Lol! Yeah, some of the mistakes I find so cute, that I kind of make sure we use them again
Aww so cute x
Oh I love it, we still call crumpets ‘primps’ because my daughter mispronounced them like that… Not sure we’ll be using my son’s words for football, fork or sock though… (F*ckF*ck, F*ck and F*ck I’m afraid)!
Haha! Great! I love hearing what kids say