Parenting

Girl: I've heard that woman over there is giving away some of her kids.

Campinas
Brazil

Little girl: Mommy, can we have the monster beans? Mommy, look, they have monster beans, can we get the monster beans?
Mommy: Honey, I think that is the green giant.
Little girl: …or monster beans!

Dollar Tree
Nicholasville, Kentucky

Mother to son: Don't you talk to me that way! I'll put my finger anywhere I want to!

Turtle Back Zoo
West Orange, New Jersey

Overheard by: lickety-split

Four-year-old: I wanna go in there!
Mother: The small mammal house?
Four-year-old, screaming: Small mammals!
Mother: Do you even know what small mammals are?
Four-year-old now, quiet and embarrassed: No.

The National Zoo
Washington, DC

Five-year-old girl to hair brush: Mommy doesn't want me to buy you or to talk to you… That makes me sad.
Embarrassed mom: Come on sweetie, let's go home.
(kid keeps talking to hair brush, mom yanks it away)
Mom, leaving store: Now is not the time to talk to hair brushes!

North Carolina

Overheard by: Wondering why mom was embarrassed

Mom to well-behaved 18-month-old son: You're about to be on eBay!

Washington, DC

Mother to crying newborn: Wah, wah, wah! Your life is so hard!

Target
Australia

Father: What will happen if mommy finds out?
Daughter: Total plutonic reversal.
Father: And?
Daughter: And I won't get any more suckers.

Bloomington, Indiana

Overheard by: Danzdman

Dad sitting on a bench, holding misbehaving son: Well, I guess we are going to have to go then. I was really hoping we could enjoy it here…
Son, at the top of his lungs: Whhhhyyyy are you doing this to me!?

Disneyland
Anaheim, California

Overheard by: Mouse Goer

30-something dude: I didn't circumcise my son.
20-something dude #1: Are you circumcised?
20-something dude #2: Woah!

Cincinnati, Ohio