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Oh yes, we get asked "what is this bit?" frequently at dinner time. Always fun when we are having some kind of rump cut, and you explain what a rump is, and "OH MY GOD WE'RE EATING A BUM??!??!?!?!!" The time she had found a vein in a chop and asked what it was, that turned into asking about...

Sheesh, my little one just scribbles on a bit of paper ... I wouldn't call it drawing. Obviously has her father's artistic talents. She's more interested in making US draw things for HER. So she can scribble them out later. Other one ... yeah. When she comes in with yet another picture of...

She didn't have loooooooong blonde hair either :P My daughter draws ME with long blonde hair. I have short brown hair. My partner and her little sister have long blonde hair ... ALL boys have SHORT hair, she says in that definitive, absolute, don't-argue-with-me way that children have...

I showed Child Elder a bunch of pictures of real princesses, like the older British royal family ones once. And Camilla Parker Bowles. She point blank refused to believe me that any of them were REAL princesses. None were pretty enough! Where were the long dresses and flowing blonde hair!

Biscuit distribution is easy - one for you, one for your sister, one for mummy, and two for me because I'm big and I have a baby in my tummy so one is for the baby :D Mummy is the one trying to lose weight and should really lay off the biscuits ... Problem is when you repeat this distribution...

I think it may take several years first to get the toddler to actually recognise sleep is a GOOD thing before I even attempt to introduce the concept of something that can keep you awake ... the other one gets it just fine though. And after putting up with years of pain when the school told...

Does this even work on kids who don't know what fat, sugar, or staying up actually means yet but do understand "gone"?

"don't stand on my plants, you'll hurt them" I like better than "I'm trying to add value to this house so I need to landscape and you stepping on my plants means I have to go spend $5 on a new one". "The TV computer is broken, we need to fix it" is better than "mummy needs the motherboard out of...

Argh! My eldest is a very good liar. Sometimes (ok, rarely) it is obvious because she's lying about something we know about, but when she pulls it off successfully she does it EXTREMELY well. I've found out about some doozies well after the event, which means she's got away with many, many more...

Tooth fairy has its own issues too - mine realised there's fairies and money in it (immediately buys biscuits with the money) and set to wiggling several of her teeth madly to get them to fall out. Result - massively twisted one tooth around, pushed another across where it shouldn't be and...

Ah, yours is a bit slow :p Mine (at 9) has already worked out that I'm santa and the tooth fairy and my parents are the easter bunny but is willing to suspend disbelief for chocolate and money and presents. We basically just skirted the issue until she flat-out accused me of being santa and...