Kids Say The Darndest Things!

I ran across an article that listed “10 Things That Drive Us Nuts About Toddlers”

Number seven was titled: “They say what they think”. It stated that “Toddlers have no filter. So if they think it, they say it. Which can make your head explode with embarrassment, especially when they ask loudly on the bus about the person in the next seat, “Mommy, is that a man or a woman?”

Well, let me tell you, I just roared with laughter when I read that because it brought to mind something my younger daughter did many years ago. On a bus, no less. Hilarious when I think about it now. Not so funny at the time.

This happened way back in the year 2000 – one of the many of my single mom years – when my younger daughter was three. I boarded a city bus with my two girls (the older one was eight), and as we walked through, the little one pointed at a woman and excitedly repeated: “Big momma! Big momma! Big momma!”

I looked to see who she was pointing at and saw a woman that looked somewhat like this:


FBI agent Malcolm Turner (actor Martin Lawrence) disguised as a crass Southern granny
known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito in the movie “Big Momma’s House”

I had no idea at the time why my daughter was calling the woman “Big momma” over and over. I just knew that I was extremely embarrassed by her behavior, so I pushed her and her sister along, as far away as I could from the woman that my kid was mocking, and got them seated. The little one got louder and kept pointing and calling out “Big momma!”

When I finally managed to quiet her down, I asked my older child if she had any idea why her sister was saying this. They had spent the weekend with their father, and I thought maybe she’d heard something there and was parroting it.

My older daughter said “I think she’s saying that because of the movie ‘Big Momma’s House’ that we saw with daddy on Saturday. Someone looked like that in the movie and was called Big Momma, and she probably thinks that’s her.”

*blink*

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.

I still haven't seen the movie.

I hadn't seen the movie ‘Big Momma’s House’, but it had been recently released that year, so I knew of it. And that woman on the bus did indeed look very much like ‘Big Momma’.

I just hoped that the lady on the bus had seen the film. And that she had a very good sense of humour, too.

My two girls many years ago. Once kids start talking, it's all downhill from there.

Have a great weekend, everyone!