Have you embarressed your children at Disney/Orlando?

[FanOfStitch]

Inspired by the "Have your children embarressed you at Disney/Orlando" thread, I thought it would be neat if there were stories about other wacky parents like myself who embarress their kids from time to time.

I'll start with my most recent one...

We went to the Breakfastsaurous at AK this past trip. I don't know if I'm not in the right place at the right time, but we very rarely ever see Donald Duck. So we're in the middle of breakfast and Donald comes in the room. I practically screamed at my DS12, "There's Donald!!!" I think everyone in the room looked our way. My son just wanted to crawl under the table. Now when we look at our pictures, my DS says "Hey Mom, There's Donald!!"

I'd love to hear yours!!

 

[Scratch42]

It was last MNSSHP!

We were walking thru Adventureland. When all of a sudden who should come out of a doorway all by his lonesome...................Tarzan!

I walked him over to where he was supposed to meet up with Jane for picture taking. I had asked whether I could just have a picture with him and forget about Jane!

Needless to say, when we were waiting in line for that said pic, DD gave me the lecture of my life! I won't go into details but she threatended NEVER to go to WDW if I ever acted like that again!

She wouldn't take the picture for me either! Luckily the CM did!

All she kept saying ........."You can't have your picture taken without Jane Too!" It's not nice! ............Very Rude! Luckily Jane left by the time I got up there! So I did not have to ask her to leave!

janet

 

[Stitchfans]

Not that I am aware of. At least lets say I hope not. I wouldn't do it on purpose.

 

[Scotsmomma]

I embarrassed my lot on our first ever trip to the states 10 years ago....we were leaving Universal Studios....and were going to get a taxi back to I Drive...the guy was stood outside his taxi...and me not being used to your cars being made all wrong I only got in the drivers side...got right in before I realised i'd made a big mistake...the driver said...you can drive if you like Maam....my kids were killing themselves laughing....

Oh and last year at the Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue...Mr BJ said...i'm going to find me a pretty woman.....came up to me...said...what's your name mom.....then said...I bet your milkshakes bring all the boys to your yard

 

[MareSINY]

Well this is something MY mom did to us when we were kids.... and it's not Orlando, but close by in Tampa.

We were at the booth paying to enter Busch Gardens when the toll booth lady put her arm out to hand my dad the paperwork. My mom saw the womans arm and nothing else and said rather loudly, "Wow! What a tan!" We all instantly did the "Mooommmm!" whine and wanted to crawl under the backseat because the woman was African American and had a permanent tan. LOL

 

[dznyacct]

DS (16), DS's friend (also 16) and myself leave for WDW in 24 days and my sweet, wonderful son has consented to getting his first WDW haircut at The Harmony Barber Shop in the MK . I have wanted to do this since our first trip over 14 years ago, but have never gotten around to it. I think he consented since I booked the Around the World at Epcot 2 hour Segway tour for the 3 of us . I'm sure he will be thoroughly embarrassed once the pixie dust goes in his hair ! I, of course, will be posed with my camera in hand waiting to capture the moment .

 

[Simba's Mom]

Well, they're not "children" since my DSs are both in their 20s, but yes, I did embarrass them often on our last trip together. It was late May, hot, so I had a water bottle constantly. I'd put the water bottle in the freezer overnight, then have cold water the next day. You know how the bottle can "sweat". I'd read [what I thought was] this neat tip-put the water bottle inside a sock so your hands don't get wet. So there I was in the MK, periodically taking my sock surrounded water bottle out for a drink. Whenever I did, DS would ask "Can't you do that where no one will see you, Mom?"

 

[Babs50]

I have knelt down and kissed the gound when I've entered the Magic Kingdom. I'm sure my son wished he could disappear into it!

 

[Cookie Princess]

Well, they're not "children" since my DSs are both in their 20s, but yes, I did embarrass them often on our last trip together. It was late May, hot, so I had a water bottle constantly. I'd put the water bottle in the freezer overnight, then have cold water the next day. You know how the bottle can "sweat". I'd read [what I thought was] this neat tip-put the water bottle inside a sock so your hands don't get wet. So there I was in the MK, periodically taking my sock surrounded water bottle out for a drink. Whenever I did, DS would ask "Can't you do that where no one will see you, Mom?"

HA-HA!!! I must say that would have embarrased me too!

 

[dreamscometrue47]

I supposedly embarrassed my DD (then 14) when I cried at Spectromagic and Wishes a couple of years ago. But later that night she told me it really was because I was singing along because she also had tears in her eyes at both!!

 

[Jasminetigger]

My Dd is too young to realize I embarassed her but I sure did embarass my DH. It was our first trip to Mk when DD was 3. We were at MK for the afternoon parade. While we were waiting a CM asked if my DD wanted to dance in the parade with the seven dwarfs. She was very excited. Well, when the parade got to us Dopey came and got our DD. They danced together in front of us and then took her on the other side of the float where I couldn't see them. No big deal. Then the parade moves on and everyone starts to leave. You know how it is on Main Street when everyone leaves after the parade. I go to Dopey to get my daughter. She is not with him. I panic and and can feel my face go ghost white. I start screaming at Dopey, "Where is my DD." I now have my hands on his shirt shaking him and yelling "Where is my DD." Of course security comes over to see what is wrong and I start yelling at them, "Dopey lost my kid." Well I look up and my DH and Snow White who is holding my DD's hand are just standing there laughing at me. My Dd, who is now 13, knows the whole story. Everytime we see Dopey now she says, "Better not let me near him mom, he might lose me."

 

[AlmostApril]

My son looked embarrassed when I kept screaming on rides that he was "too cool" to be scared of. Like, on Mission:Space, he was like, "mom, it's not real!" And he's always embarrassed when we go on rollercoasters and I hold onto him. I can't help it! And I'm always yelling, "hold on!" and "put your arms downs!" Every photo of us on a rollercoaster, my arms are over him and he's pushing them off. LOL

 

[llij]

My Dd is too young to realize I embarassed her but I sure did embarass my DH. It was our first trip to Mk when DD was 3. We were at MK for the afternoon parade. While we were waiting a CM asked if my DD wanted to dance in the parade with the seven dwarfs. She was very excited. Well, when the parade got to us Dopey came and got our DD. They danced together in front of us and then took her on the other side of the float where I couldn't see them. No big deal. Then the parade moves on and everyone starts to leave. You know how it is on Main Street when everyone leaves after the parade. I go to Dopey to get my daughter. She is not with him. I panic and and can feel my face go ghost white. I start screaming at Dopey, "Where is my DD." I now have my hands on his shirt shaking him and yelling "Where is my DD." Of course security comes over to see what is wrong and I start yelling at them, "Dopey lost my kid." Well I look up and my DH and Snow White who is holding my DD's hand are just standing there laughing at me. My Dd, who is now 13, knows the whole story. Everytime we see Dopey now she says, "Better not let me near him mom, he might lose me."

That was so cute!

My moment was this past September at Epcot. I was eight months pregnant and well, very 'hormonal'. My whole family went to hear the Voices of Liberty and as usual they were great. They serenaded a couple celebrating their 40th anniversary by singing "A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes." Anyways, I love that song and just busted out crying. The poor man next to me probably thought I was crazy, but he was very sweet nonetheless. My girls, husband and parents gave me a hard time the rest of the trip for the crying and kept singing that song trying to get a rise out of me.

 

[bubba73]

I am sure that I have. We all have. But, if I haven't yet, I know I will on this trip. I have wanted to do something for years but either "chickened out" or got talked out of it but this year it is going to happen, no matter what. I have always wanted to get either the Mickey Ears hat or the Mickey and Minnie wedding hats. My DW said she wouldn't wear them for anything so I am going totry to sneak them on to her head and then get our picture made. I hope it works.

 

[Showe]

I rode Space Mtn with my DD7 and DS10 and at one point, and you more mature women might understand, I screamed so hard on a dip that I wet my pants....I laughed the rest of the ride....when we got off the ride my son said, "how was it mom" and in front of a whole group of people I said, "it was so great I wet myself"...."LITERALLY". my son was so embarrassed

 

[Amy&Dan]

At Animal Kingdom I embarrassed my son and myself. We were playing those ridiculously expensive games. My son, bless his heart is like Charlie Brown, he never wins ANYTHING! He sat down to play some game where you shoot at a target and the only other kid playing was maybe three. My son was 10 and I thought this is great, he can finally win something. Unfortunately the toddler was a gifted marksman and won. I was crushed, way more than my son. Later we played another game with some other people plus the original toddler. This time my son was winning and I was screaming: "YES, YES, YES, YOU CAN DO IT, WHOHOO, YOU WON!!!" I was basically cheering my son on a like a maniac to beat the pants off some poor little kid, all for some dumb stuffed dinosaur. I looked like one of those crazed soccer parents I hate to watch as they take their kid's games way too seriously. My son was mortified and ended up offering the little kid the dinosaur he won. But the mom nicely declined, probably because she thought I was so insane I wouldn't want to part with our prize. My son still remembers that and shakes his head with disgust over my sad behavior. Not my best moment in retrospect.

 

[jann1033]

i've embarrassed my kids all over the country not just at WDW( figured i'd start this the same as my post on the other thread

biggest at wdw..we went to the muppets 3-d and were sitting in the very front row. we had never seen it before and some stuff was going on preshow ( i'ts erased from my memory) and we were looking over to the right of the theater when that giant tall bigfoot like creature snuck up to my left and when i turned around was literally right in my face. i jumped about up to the ceiling and screamed at the top of my lungs( which is pretty loud) and the entire audience cracked up..my face had to be tomato red, nothing like overreacting!

i think that was more embarrassing to them than the time i freaked in tom sawyer caves and in my haste to get out pushed my hand ( unintentionally) into some teenage boy's mouth who wisely stepped aside cause i was rapidly getting out of there no matter who i mowed down in the process...( but ms doesn't make me feel closed in at all, go figure)

 

[jann1033]

I rode Space Mtn with my DD7 and DS10 and at one point, and you more mature women might understand, I screamed so hard on a dip that I wet my pants....I laughed the rest of the ride....when we got off the ride my son said, "how was it mom" and in front of a whole group of people I said, "it was so great I wet myself"...."LITERALLY". my son was so embarrassed

glad to hear this as i was starting to think i was really as nutty as my kids think reading all the posts where people say they haven't embarrassed them ( with a few exceptions like manhandling the characters )

 

[mytwotinks]

At Animal Kingdom I embarrassed my son and myself. We were playing those ridiculously expensive games. My son, bless his heart is like Charlie Brown, he never wins ANYTHING! He sat down to play some game where you shoot at a target and the only other kid playing was maybe three. My son was 10 and I thought this is great, he can finally win something. Unfortunately the toddler was a gifted marksman and won. I was crushed, way more than my son. Later we played another game with some other people plus the original toddler. This time my son was winning and I was screaming: "YES, YES, YES, YOU CAN DO IT, WHOHOO, YOU WON!!!" I was basically cheering my son on a like a maniac to beat the pants off some poor little kid, all for some dumb stuffed dinosaur. I looked like one of those crazed soccer parents I hate to watch as they take their kid's games way too seriously. My son was mortified and ended up offering the little kid the dinosaur he won. But the mom nicely declined, probably because she thought I was so insane I wouldn't want to part with our prize. My son still remembers that and shakes his head with disgust over my sad behavior. Not my best moment in retrospect.

This is exactly where I humiliated myself. I thought that it was just myself, my Dh and my Dd(7) playing that whack the mole game. Bless her heart, she just never seems to win anything, so I was cheating for her. I mean, I knew that one of us was going to win so I just started using my smacker on her side every once in a while. After the game is over, I look up and there are two little kids on the other side. I totally cheated and won the stuffed animal out from under these two children. I felt like such a jerk! The funny thing is that to this day, she brags about winning that stupid cheap dinosaur. I can't hardly stand to look at it without feeling guilty.

 

[joshsmom]

I'm a blubbering, sentimental mess. Its a given (and accepted) fact. Anytime I see DS experiencing something for the first time (or the 100th time) and really enjoying himself, I get misty-eyed. Well, here we were, last day at the parks and preparing to go home. It was a very sad moment, as always. We were on the bus and it was leaving MK. About the time we rounded the bend out of the bus stalls, Wishes started. I saw my son's face--all excited about seeing the fireworks from the bus--and the recognition that we were going home. I just began SOBBING on the bus. People were looking, the bus driver was wondering if he should call for backup, my son was about to crawl under the seat. My mother loudly said "don't worry honey, you can take your hormone pill when we get back to the hotel!!!!!!"

So, not only did I embarrass the HECK out of my then-8-year-old son, MY MOTHER embarrassed the DAYLIGHTS out of me!!!! The bus driver almost drove into a ditch because he was laughing so hard.