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Toddlers have a way of saying the cutest, most unexpected things that never fail to bring a smile to our faces. From innocent honesty to perfectly timed one-liners, their words can be hilarious, surprising, and oddly profound.
So I asked our community to share the funniest and most heartwarming things a toddler has ever said to them â and these are the best stories they wanted to share.
When my son was about four, we decided to have people over for dinner. My husbandâs favorite dish to make was a salad with octopus. My son couldnât say âoctopusâ properly because of the lisp on the âs,â so we called it tentacle salad.
We had a few couples milling around the house while my husband and I were prepping appetizers. In walks my son, sees the salad, and then runs around yelling, âHey â weâre going to have testicle salad!â
While that would normally be funny on its own, the real problem was that my husband and I were already known for being experimental with food. It took a little convincing to assure everyone that there were no actual testicles in the salad.
My nephewâmy brotherâs son, now 31âwhen he was about six: I said to my family, âYou can really see his motherâs genes in himâ (because of his blond hair, height, and blue eyes). He heard me and got so upset that he said, âNo, Aunty, youâre lying! These are my jeans! I was there at the shop when we bought them! Iâm not wearing Mumâs jeans, Iâm not!ââstamping his foot in a full tantrum.
My brother plays hockey, and one of the younger siblings and I were messing around one day. This was in a warmer rink, so I was wearing a tank top, and at one point, I lifted my arms.
He looked at me, shocked, and just goes, âWHATâS THAT?â while pointing at my arms.
Now Iâm confused, thinking thereâs something on me, so I lift my arms to look. He jams his finger into my armpit and goes, âWHY IS IT SO HAIRY?â
âBecause Iâm a mammal, buddy. I have body hair.â
âWell, you shouldnât. Itâs weird.â
Heâs young, so hopefully heâll learn eventually, but it was really funny.
I was watching my niece (two at the time) one day, and I sneezed. She yelled out, âGodzilla!â I turned to her and said, âWhat?â She said, âGodzilla,â then looked at me like I was crazy for not knowing thatâs what you say when someone sneezes. I asked her mom about it, and she said she didnât know where it came fromâshe just started saying it one day. So now, 30 years later, if someone sneezes around me, I say, âGodzilla.â
As an incentive to get my young son to tidy away his toys, I promised him that if he did it for ten days in a row, he could choose anything he wanted from the Two Dollar Shop (so called for obvious reasons).
âAnything?â he asked.
I agreed.
âWow!â he replied. âBut, Mum, I wonât choose anything too expensive.â
Recently shaved my beard off after 10 years.
7yo: âDAD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?!â
Me: âWhat? This is how I looked when I married your mum.â
7yo: âWHY DID SHE MARRY YOU?!?!?!â
Ouch.
My niece once asked me why I had strawberries on my face. I have really bad acne, and she was four at the time.
Back when I was a high school teacher, I had many beautiful kids, and some not so much, but I loved them all anyway! Two pertinent points here: I have always struggled with my weight, and I like wearing dark colours, especially black. I just feel good in it. One day, one of my kids asked me in class, âMiss ******, why do you wear black so much?â My joking reply was, âBecause black is slimming!â The kid looked me up and down, shaking his head in sympathy. âItâs not working, Miss ****.â Class laughter, me included. (I knew the kid well enough to know that his intent wasnât malicious, and he knew me well enough to know that I never held grudges and that I loved wittiness.)
A couple of years ago, I was riding the bus late at night. It was packed with commuters heading home.
I was sitting behind a young mother, and her sonâmaybe six or sevenâwas kneeling on his seat, facing me, and staring intently.
I took it with humor, since Iâd had a good day and was in a good mood, so I started making faces: sticking my tongue out, crossing my eyes, and twitching my nose.
The boy kept staring, stone-faced, for a moment, and then yelled at the top of his voice:
âMOOOOOM!! THE MISTER IN THE BACKSEAT IS MAKING FACES!!! HEâS GOING TO STAY LIKE THAT!! TELL HIM, MOM!!!â
I have never been redder in the face before or sinceâŠ
âWhen I grow up, Iâm not going to have a husband. Iâm going to be a widow.â
When my son was very young, he was outside with me while I was working in the yard watering plants. He came up to me with his little plastic bucket and asked me to put some water in it. I did. He promptly walked up to the cat and poured the water on it. Of course, the cat freaked out. I felt like I should correct him, so I said, âThat wasnât very nice.â He stopped giggling just long enough to say, âNo, but it was funny.â Thatâs been a family motto for 30+ years.
A few years ago, my nephew, who was six at the time, saw me drawing a skull. He then asked if I drew skulls over and over again until my room looked like a t*****e chamber. I nearly fell off the couch laughing.
My daughter, when she was 3 (sheâs 7 now). Anyway, despite doing our best not to curse around her, we did occasionally slip. One day she started saying WTF (the actual words). We explained it was a very bad thing and not to say it. After a few days, she said/asked, and I quote, âMommy, I want to say WTF.â It was just the fact that she knew how to phrase it as a question so she could say it knowing Iâd say no.
Our little girl, 10, was having a tantrum over something mundane, as kids do. And she said, âYouâre weak⊠youâre as weak as a⊠youâre as weak as a pigeon!â
My wife and I still laugh about how we are apparently as weak as pigeons.
Not to me, but my father. He was in the kitchen attempting to swat a very large and stubborn fly and failing miserably. He had a rolled-up newspaper in his hand and, in one wild swipe, knocked down and broke the toaster, hurting his hand in the process.
My little brother and I came running down.
âWhat was that?â I asked. My father replied, sheepishlyâŠ
âI was trying to k**l a flyâŠâ
My little brother, age four, looked at the mess and asked:
âWith the toaster?â
As I roared with laughter, my father tried to save faceâŠ
âWell, I got it!â
My little brother, without missing a beat, just replied:
âYeah. Also the toaster.â
My daughter, when she was five, out of nowhere asked me, âMommy, when you die, can I have your bras?â
I was walking down the street and met a woman coming the other way. She had a toddler, maybe four years old. The kid gave me a big smile, waved, and said, âHi, Grandpa!â
Not to me, but to a friend of mine. She was walking up the stairs in her apartment building when a little kid, maybe six years old, was coming down at the same time. He looked my friend dead in the eye and demanded angrily, âDo you have any common sense?â
Then he continued on his way down, leaving my friend reeling in surprise.
âYOU CANâT BE TALKING, YOU MARRIED SHREK!!!!!!â
Some kid started a rumor at the day camp I worked at during the summer that I was secretly married to Shrekâand would even send me fan mail of me making out with Shrek through the camp mail system. So⊠yeah. That happened.
And the worst part? Everyone else in their group joined in. Now I have like three pounds of paper about me and Shrek in my closet.
When my nephew was littleâaround four years oldâhe got new shoes that lit up. Excited, he told my husband and dragged him to a closet so he could show them off. They got to the closet, and my nephew ran inside, closing the door with my husband outside.
âSee, Uncle? They light up!â
My husband laughed and said, âOh, that is so cool! Theyâre great!â
When my brother-in-law came home, the same thing happened: my nephew ran into the closet, dad outside.
âSee, Daddy? They light up!â
But, being the dad, my BIL said, âNo, son, I canât see them from out here.â
My nephew came out a little annoyed. âWell⊠Uncle could see them!â
My child was three, and I had been telling her some Bible stories and about God for a year or so. One day in the car, she was in her car seat in the back while I was driving. She asked, âMommy, where is God?â
I told her that He is always with us and is everywhere.
She replied, âWell, He must be up there with you because Heâs not back here with me.â
I was talking with a friend one day when my daughter came up and started talking to me. I asked her to hold on because I was talking to my friend, and she replied, âBut Dad, you have two ears.â
Weâre not a religious family. But someone gave us cookies for Easter once, shaped like bunnies, eggs, and crosses. My youngest was five at the time, and she asked about the shapes. I think we said something like they were swords, and she replied, âNo, they arenât, theyâre crosses.â
I asked her if she knew what a cross was, and she said, âYes, itâs a big wooden thing that you put people on.â
I mean⊠sheâs not wrong.
When my daughter was five and in kindergarten, I asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up. Her answer: âSix.â
Back in the days when the Raiders were still in Oakland, my sons and I were driving across Oklahoma on our way to Dallas from Kansas City. My 11-year-old asked, âDad, does Oklahoma have a football team?â
I told him noâthey donât have their own team and mostly root for either the Chiefs or the Cowboys.
My younger son, seven, piped up, âWhy donât they root for the Oklahoma Raiders?â
And thatâs how weâve referred to them ever since.
Oklahoma! Oklahoma!
Having three kids is a goldmine of funny things they say. My current favorites are:
Dad: âBig kid, you didnât eat your lunch pack again today! How do you stay alive at school?â
Big kid: âI make homework.â
Mom (asking mid-kid to help put toys away):
Mid-kid: âNo, I canât. My arms are too short.â
Something has been broken, drawn on, or ripped apart.
Lil-kid: âIt wasnât me! It was my hands!â
My 4-year-old daughter pointed at a sturdy woman walking toward us at daycare.
âHey, look Dad, fat hooters!â
We blame the Steve Martin skit where he listed all the names people have for hooters. Toot toot.
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