Chronicle of a mother: these 3 moments my children made me feel ashamed

Did you know that many children suffer from verbal diarrhea? This habit of saying whatever comes to mind, without worrying about the consequences of one’s words. So yes, this often happens with adults too, but when their children throw away everything and anything, completely innocently (or not), it hurts them. I painfully share with you the three worst thoughts my children have had in my presence, and then I will hide in a cave for the rest of my days.

The 3 worst thoughts of my children

1 – The day I should have kept my mouth shut

Let’s start with the most classic, the one in which I betrayed my daughter’s lover, and which the latter kindly reported to her. Of course it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have said bad things about her teacher, but, in my defense, I didn’t know that my heiress had listened to my conversation with her father, while presumably she was listening to a story with her Lunii, headphones on .

How did I know the teacher knew I said ” who would rather buy a watch to finally be on time rather than the Sézane sweater from the latest collection which costs an arm and a leg » ? Because my daughter, during the parent/teacher meeting where the teacher was inevitably wearing this famous sweater (and still without a watch), she politely blurted out “ You saw the mother, the teacher, she has a clock in the classroom, she doesn’t need a clock like you said “.

2 – The day my son should have kept his mouth shut

As I said above, children have no filters. If sometimes it’s my fault, because they hear me say unpleasant things about others (who doesn’t?), sometimes it’s just them, their thoughts, their questions, innocent at the same time, that make me feel ashamed. The last one? One person dared to throw a huge crate onto the bus, offending the senses of other users, and especially of my almost three-year-old son, who is not the last to talk about crates. And what did the latter do when the smell delicately reached his little nostrils? He shouted, getting up from his seat (to add to the already very dramatic aspect of the situation): “HE WHO CHOSED DOESN’T SMELL GOOD!” »

There followed a scene composed of a mixture of people laughing, others taking offense, one hiding in his jacket (the serial more fartI presume) and my son, in the midst of all this, who evidently does not intend to stop until an answer is brought back to him, continuing to add more by exclaiming that it smells like our dog’s procreation when he is sick.

The day I questioned their upbringing

Finally, the last one in the series (there are others, but I’m already ashamed enough), is the one in which, after writing an article on the technique of using swear words to scare away potential kidnappers, my eldest son Daughter realized that there he had a highway to say the worst swear words in the universe.

This trick, which I was telling you about, consists in explaining to a child that if someone outside the home wants to kidnap him, he must shout all the swear words that come into his head, to attract attention and avoid a tragedy. An interesting idea, but one that was evidently used in the wrong way by the heiress.

So here we are in the park one day, all together, and suddenly I hear him start screaming at the top of his lungs. “SHIT BALL BAG, SHIT” (yeah yeah) then have a laugh with your group of friends. Hearing this – like all the other parents in the park and perhaps even in all of France given the volume – I run towards her, take her aside and ask her face to face what could have happened to her head to make her scream things like that , while obviously no one is trying to kidnap her. Her response? “ I explained your technique to my friends, but they didn’t know the swear words, so I gave examples. »

She was super proud of herself, I was mortified and had to go around to the shocked parents to explain to them what had just happened.

And you, what are the most shameful moments you have experienced with your children?

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