It is very common to have hard conversations with your children. And I’m not talking about the birds and the bees (although when we play I spy out the window we see both). I’m talking about conversations that are hard to understand or not start laughing in the middle of. Here are some of my recent favorites…

Boring

• Our son (faintly from upstairs this morning) – “Daddy…. Daddy…”
• Me (calling up the stairs) – “What is it….?”
• “I’m bored….”
• “What do you mean?”
• “There’s nothing to do!”
• “Well why don’t you come down here with us?”
• “What are you guys doing?”
• “Oh, nothing. We’re boring people. But you can come be bored with us!”
• “What would I do?”
• “Nothing. Come be bored with us” (In reality we were getting breakfast ready and readying books)
• “No thanks.”
• “I thought you were bored?”
• “No, there’s lot’s of things to do, I just can’t decide what.”

Mission accomplished

Public decency

• (Son drops pants in public)
• Me – “Pull your pants up!”
• Son – “Why?”
• “We don’t show our butts in public”
• “But why”
• “It’s not polite”
• (Giggling) “Butt, butt, butt, butt.”
• “Stop saying that word!”
• (grabs his butt while trying to evade me) “Butt butt butt”
• “Pull. Your. Pants. UP!”

Can’t hear trouble

• (Daughter trying to take something of her brother’s) “Give it to me!”
• Me (walking in) – “You can’t take things someone else is using.”
• “Go out”
• “You want me to leave just because you got in trouble?”
• “Yes. Goout Goout Goout gooutgooutgooutgooutgooutgoutGOOUTGOOUT”
• “I’m not going to leave just because you got in trouble”
• “DADDY! GO OUT NOOOOW!”

What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard from your child?