Funny Working Mom Moments
When your kids say the wrong thing
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Time to buy your hoodies elsewhere
My funniest moment had to be when I took my six-year-old son and husband into my job to get some new hoodies. It was the first time my six-year-old had ever been in there. So my boss walks by and says “Hi, is this your son?” and my son says, “Mommy is this the job you said you are sick and tired of coming into?” I acted like I didn’t hear him but, I know my boss did.
– Ashley E.
Taking things very literally
One evening after work and picking up my son at after-school care, we are home and I am preparing dinner. My son was starving and asked if he could have something to tide him over until dinner was ready. I told him to have some grapes in the meantime. He replied back to me, "Can't we have them in the good times too?”
– Tracy M.
Sometimes kids can be too honest
I was teaching third grade and my daughter was in kindergarten and got sick. Rather than call in a substitute teacher, my daughter came into my class and went to sleep under my desk. After my class had gone home for the day, the janitor came in to clean my room. My daughter woke up and looked at the gentleman as we were talking. She suddenly stuck her head out from under my desk and said, "Hey, how come you don't have any teeth?" Needless to say, we were all speechless!
– Kathie B.
Standing up for mommy
I took my daughter to work with me one Saturday morning. I introduced her to my new boss, who had been forcing me to work lots of overtime and come in early several mornings a week. My daughter, apparently, felt the same frustration as I did with my new "schedule." When I introduced her she said, "I don't like you because you are SO MEAN to MY MOMMY!" I almost fell over.
– Tracy H.
He’s not very impressed with mom’s job
I had just started a new job in home health care. After I finished my shift I met up with my husband and kids at my son's baseball practice. I was talking to a friend about the new job and my oldest son chimed in (in front of the whole team and parents) “Ya, can you believe she gets paid $10 an hour to give old people a shower!” I was speechless, but looking back it was funny.
– Jaime S.
The chatty newborn
Back in '97 I had a baby girl and lucky for us, I returned to work two weeks later and brought her with me. I worked at a natural foods store then and greeted everyone who came through the door with a "Hi, there." Three months later, we discovered my daughter was very verbally advanced when she started mimicking me. After I acknowledged each customer, a small voice chimed in from the middle of the store with a "Hi." The confused person would scan the store, looking for the source of the greeting, only to be left wondering. Again she would say, "Hi." and the customer would finally see the baby seat resting on the table with the tiny infant in it...talking. There was no trick, no gag; they would approach slowly and almost jump when she repeated her greeting.
– Alexis S.
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