Posted By Tough Cookie Mommy on September 19, 2010

     I have had many embarrassing moments throughout my life, as most people have.  However, there is nothing like being embarrassed by one of your children to really take you to a whole new level of embarrassment.  Those of you who have children, know that they are cute, precocious, and tend to have no filter when it comes to saying things out loud or repeating things that they heard from adults.  I learned, the hard way, to be more careful of the things that I say in front of my children…

    Last year, I was sitting in the livingroom having a conversation with my husband, as we often do on a regular basis.  We were discussing the fact that my sister had been asking for my sons’ to sleep over her house and how we were hesitant about allowing that because we had an ongoing conflict with her boyfriend who lives in the house with her.  Previously, he and my husband had had some words and her boyfriend had been disrespectful which created a rift in the family.  As a result, my husband did not allow our sons to go over to my sister’s house due to not wanting them to be exposed to this guy.

    As we were talking, my oldest son walked into the livingroom and caught the tail end of the conversation.  He proceeded to ask us why he couldn’t go to his Aunt’s house.  Obviously, it was inappropriate to discuss the reasons with him because he is only a child so we had to think up an excuse quickly that would satisfy his curiosity and get us out of the frying pan.  I told him that my sister was having her house fumigated for roaches and that nobody could be in her apartment while the exterminators were doing that.  This explanation seemed to be enough for him and he promptly walked off to play in his room.

    A couple of weeks passed and my sister and mother were taking care of my sons, in my mother’s house, while my husband and I attended a special event.  My sister proceeded to ask my son why he had not been to her house in such a long time and told him that she had missed him.  Without missing a beat, my son proceeded to tell her that Mommy had said that nobody could go over to her house because her boyfriend was a roach and her apartment was being exterminated to get rid of him and the rest of the roaches.  As you can all imagine, I had a lot of explaining to do in order to fix this miscommunication.  You can rest assured that I am even more cautious now of the things that I discuss in front of my boys because the old saying is so true, “from the mouths of Babes…”

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