6/1/99 Daniel Funari

One afternoon I was planning on taking my daughter,Emily, to McDonald's for lunch. She began to get hungry prior to leaving and quickly consumed a glass of juice. When she asked for more, thinking she would be too full to eat lunch, I responded, "Why not wait and save some room in your belly for pop?" I immediately realized this was the stupidest thing I had ever said!

6/9/99 Joelle Cheng

Toilet paper is NOT a food group! (I think you get the idea... ;-)

6/21/99 Teri Weber

One sunny Saturday morning while I was washing up the dishes, I heard my 3-year old hammering away out on the lanai. After yelling a number of times for him to stop, I finally shouted, "what are you hammering out there?" The baby shouted back, "I'm banging the lizard"! (Here in Florida we have hundreds of'em). Tired of the noise, I shouted back, "Connor, don't bang the lizard." Just as the words escaped my lips my husband came into the kitchen, gave me the strangest look and asked what the hell "bang the lizard" meant. The baby now uses the phrase whenever he doesn't have the vocabulary to explain what he's doing.

6/23/99 Richard Koch

When my daughter,Amber, was 4, my wife and I took her for walks. One day during our walk we met someone we knew. We started talking not realizing that our daughter had gotten near some dog stuff. She put it on her head and said, "Look at me!" We turned around and excused ourselves from our friends, ran home, and got the dog waste from her hair. I said to her, "Honey, dog poo is not a hat." (if you use this, Hammie could do this and Zoe could say,"Look at Hammie!")

7/29/99 Kelly Anklam

While I was going to the bathroom the other night I actually heard the following words come from my mouth to my 7 month old daughter: Please stop sucking on my ankle, you are getting my socks wet.

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