Have your children embarrassed you at Disney/Orlando?

[kerry34]

 

[aterriq]

Here's two things,

1. Waiting for a bus to MNSSHP, there was a little girl, looked about 6 or 7, in a very pretty hand-made Cinderella costume, she was so cute. Another family with two little girls about 5 or 6 and 8 or 9, were there wearing the store-bought Cinderella costumes, with all of the plastic jewelry. They were making fun of the first little girl, because she didn't have the necklace or ring, and purse, and whatever else the stores sell. The little girl did, however, have a black band around her neck, (like the one in the movie,) and her costume looked like it was right out of the movie, while the other two were so commercialized. Not that I think there's anything wrong with the store-bought costumes, but with the purse, and the pearls, and the earrings, and the crown, and the rings, it gets to be overly-accesorized, and tacky looking. I felt so bad for the little girl, and the other girls' parents were just standing there letting them say things, nothing to bad, but critizing her for not having all of the jewelry.

Disneyfav4ever, you missed your chance to help the little girl. I would have walked over to her and asked if she was Cinderella. I would then ask her if the other two girls were her horrible stepsisters.

 

[Karnak]

All of these INITALS are driving me up the wall. I can tell what some of them mean, but there's just too many to learn them all. On just this page alone there is ...
DD, DH, DS1, WL, DTD, LOL, AKL, CSR, POR, MCO, DS6, DD5, BCV, SSR, CM, DS, BWI, WL and probably a few more I missed. Good grief. Is it too much to ask for people to type out a few words?

 

[The Mayor]

The time when my then 4 year old son told the CM, who inquired if he was having fun, "Ya, but I'm hot as hell"...last time I used that expression on vacation.

 

[3PRINCESSMOM]

I couldn't resist! Plus, it is true!

 

[cleo]

DD, DH, DS1, WL, DTD, LOL, AKL, CSR, POR, MCO, DS6, DD5, BCV, SSR, CM, DS, BWI, WL

Dear Daughter, Dear Husband (or Disney Daughter, Disney Husband, etc), Dear Son 1, Wilderness Lodge, Downtown Disney, Laughing Out Loud, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Coronado Springs Resort, Port Orleans Riverside, MCO (Orlando International Airport), Dear Son 6 (years old), etc...Beach Club Villas, Saratoga Springs Resort, Cast Member, Dear Son (again), Boardwalk Inn, and so on.

You're never going to get people to type it all out, so ya may as well join us! Here's a link to get you started: Abbreviations

 

[Kath2003]

My 18-year-old sister managed to wear the most impractical shoes to Sea World...kinda like these:

We role Journey to Atlantis once. We got wet. Then we decided to ride it again. Turns out, those shoes don't work so good when they're wet because the insides are kinda shiny and she couldn't keep her feet in them. She fell over onto her butt not once but TWICE on the way back to the boat for our second ride (both times on the loading platform, so twice in about twenty feet). The staff looks at us like we were crazy

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Okay I just have to post here! First let me say that the kids never embarrass me but dh and I are the kind of people who find humor in almost everything! I have a few stories and we only have only taken the kids to Disney twice and will be returning in April for trip #3 with baby #3!!! Here goes.....


DS then 2 throws up in the WL main pool and the pool has to be shut down for clean up! He has a bad gag reflex and got too much water in his mouth while swimming! My poor dh tried to "coral" the puke but it was priceless seeing the looks on the other people's faces! To say the least!

DD then 1.5 screaming to beat the band while waiting on line for It's a Small World. Now mind you- she wasn't screaming and kicking and hitting because she didn't want to go on the ride- she just did not want to wait in line, be carried, or wear shoes. She is our adventurous child! (just like Mommy!) Nobody seemed to mind but I swear I felt like we were in line for about 20 years!!! Did I mention I was almost 7 months pregant at the time too?


DS our resident puker apparently cannot have root beer floats. Both trips he had some of ours and both times he puked all over. The first time it was during the fireworks while dd slept in her side of the carriage while we cleaned up. The second time he was old enough to get out of the carriage and walk over to some bushes and let loose. (he did that a few times poor kid) Needless to say we will not be offering up any floats on our upcoming trip!


DD and DS both did not want to have their photo taken with photo pass one night so while we were walking down main street about 20 minutes AFTER we had the photo taken DS was still complaining and whining about it so DH and I start saying silly things to him-"Fine, we'll put tape over your face or we'll just black it out with a marker!" Well, this man comes up to us and says "You should be ashamed of yourself!!!" DH and I cracked up! He obviously thought we were going to do these horrible things to our kids!!! He clearly didn't realize we were talking about a picture and ribbing our son! I will say Kudos to him though for having the nerve to say something when he clearly thought we were abusive even if that was not the case.

DD the adventurer decided to get out of the quiet pool at the Poly and run along the edge while I try to keep up with her on the inside edge of the pool. Just great except that she ran by the deep end and I was almost 7 months pregnant and had to jump out of the pool so fast so she wouldn't fall in (or dive in!) Wellllllll......the back of my bathing suit fell down and I ended up mooning everyone! I turned around and two women were laughing so of course I laughed with them! I probably blinded them with my big ol butt!


DH was watching the kids while I went on test track and let DS run through the fountains at Epcot. Well, he didn't realize that diapers explode when the are over soaked. You can guess what happened! Pampers everywhere!!! Of course DH was mortified and was running around cleaning up diaper gel everywhere! He did a great job and was laughing when he told me. We have it on video and you can see it on my son't face the moment we think the diaper had a blow out!

These are just a few events as we are a pretty funny family!

 

[Amy&Dan]

DS then 2 throws up in the WL main pool and the pool has to be shut down for clean up! He has a bad gag reflex and got too much water in his mouth while swimming! My poor dh tried to "coral" the puke but it was priceless seeing the looks on the other people's faces! To say the least!


DS our resident puker apparently cannot have root beer floats. Both trips he had some of ours and both times he puked all over. The first time it was during the fireworks while dd slept in her side of the carriage while we cleaned up. The second time he was old enough to get out of the carriage and walk over to some bushes and let loose. (he did that a few times poor kid) Needless to say we will not be offering up any floats on our upcoming trip!

I have to laugh at your son the puker! My mom has a list of about 25 embarrassing places my brother puked as a kid! Including all over 3 school secretaries and during the Pledge of Allegiance at school to name a couple! We still laugh as a family many, many years later at how many times my brother would need a quick pull over to barf. He is paid back now as he has twin daughters who do their share of upchucking! Your family sounds like mine, glad you can see the humor in it all, cause what else can you do?

 

[Ladybugsy]

Well, this wasn't at Disney, but was pretty recent, so I remember it. While on top of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, my 7 year old daughter wanted to put a quarter in the view finders so she could look down at the farm below the mountain. In a crowd of people, she shouted, "Hey mommy, do you have any cents?" Everyone looked at me and I said, "Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't".

 

[Ladybugsy]

IloveWINNIEthePOOH, I live in panama city beach, if you have any questions or anything let me know

Hi neighbor! I live in Callaway. My dh is a Sheriff's deputy on the beach.

 

[marcbelt]

No. But I was embarrassed of myself (so was my family) because I had the "runs" once at MK and didn't make it to the bathroom. I don't know what was worse, the embarrassment or my intestinal pain. Yuck.

 

[IloveWINNIEthePOOH]

No. But I was embarrassed of myself (so was my family) because I had the "runs" once at MK and didn't make it to the bathroom. I don't know what was worse, the embarrassment or my intestinal pain. Yuck.

That same thing happened to my Gramps in DTD!

 

[SandraVB79]

After reading about 65 posts on this thread, I decided to post something myself and then continue to read.

I have no kids (yet), I have never been with kids to Disneyland, I always go by myself or with my mom (and sometimes oldest brother). I also have no intention to take my future kids with me to a Disney theme park before they are at an age they can walk the whole thing by themselves. Why? Because I watched too many scenes in a Disney park, and thought by myself: thatis NOT worth all that money to me! Kids sleeping in their strollers early in the morning because they are tired, kids whining through the day because they are freezing (DLP) or way too hot (DL or DLP in summer), kids asleep in their strollers during the afternoon (nap time), kids asleep again in the evening (they are tired), ... In my opinion, it's not worth the large amount of money. I'll create magical moments with my kids on other places than Disney, that will cost me less money. Do you think I'll be a bad mom because of that? Well, I don't care. (for the record: I don't think about parents who take their small children to Disney as bad parents, with the exception of that one couple that was still IN DLP at 7.30 pm with their 3-weeks old while it was freezing and snowing (real snow, not Disney-snow!)

Next to that, I have never been to a Disney-park until I was 19, we almost never went to other amusement parks because it was too expensive, and when we went that one time... we (i.e. my 2 brothers and I) behaved better than some/most of the children at a Disney-park. I think a main reason because o that is that children get more spoiled now. With that, I mean: they get to go more often. When I was young, going one day to a local amusement park was THE event of the year, and so we behaved and enjoyed and fully experienced every second of that day (lol). Nowadays, you hear 5-yo say: I don't want to go on Peter Pan anymore, I went too much on it

 

[worm761]

i have an only child that is special needs. last summer for our trip i took my totally normal niece with us. thought it would be really nice for doodle to have someone to play with. i learned a very valuable lesson....when all you are used to is the special needs child, normal kids are very hard to handle.

here is my story...i embarrassed myself! after a few days of trying to balance the needs and wants of both kids i was at my limit. i had stopped smoking for the duration of the trip as i won't smoke around the kids. so my temper was really short. we were at animal kingdom and the kids were hot and cranky. so we leave. they decide that they want to go to magic kingdom, and as soon as we get there they are hungry. they look at the maps and decide they want to eat at el peroco (spelling???). anyway they sell tacos. kids want tacos. my autistic son REALLY wants tacos. this restaurant is seasonal and was not open at that time. i didn't know that so we headed that way. we get there and it is closed which of course means that we all have to whine. LOUDLY and constantly that that is where we want to eat and why is it closed. well, that is where my temper snapped. i just looked at the kids and said "yep i knew you wanted to eat hear so i called and told them to close up! just so i can hear you whine about it!" in the middle of the MK very loudly. yep that was me. as soon as it was out of my mouth i was sooo embarrassed. i apologized to the kids and we good rest of the day.

 

[Susan-Storm]

Hmm..Well I must have embarresed my parents thousands of times in the past...Maybe begging to go into the store . but that was ages ago

 

[nliedel]

Where have my kids not embarrassed me? They live for it. I cannot wait till they are teens and I can get them back for:

Pooping in a resort pool when he was more than potty trained (eldest and yes, they closed the pool).

Screaming like I am murdering them for asking one of them to actually eat a green bean in Boatwrights.

and a meltdown or two. I am the parent to the King of the Meltdown. When he goes it's spectacular. I would never, ever chastise a parent for having a kid with a meltdown. Gene-Gene does it for no apparent reason at any time of the day. I take him out of wherever we are right away but it's really humiliating.

I always bless him that he have children just like him someday.

 

[jaysue]

That's probably a really stupid question but I would love to hear some of your horror stories!

My husband and I don't have children so our park touring is pretty stress-free and easy. I love seeing the excitement, joy and wonder on the faces of children, but what about the "other side" of vacationing with them?


Here's a list to jog your memory:

Vomiting, peeing or pooping in places that are definitely NOT the toilet

Temper tantrums for all to see

Incessant whiiiiiiiining or crying

Refusal to walk any more, or eat, or pee, or smile for the camera etc

Loud screaming in excitement (or fear!)

Making a mess or damaging things in restaurants, stores, or the hotel

Interacting badly with other children they meet

Being rude to cast members, characters, or other guests

Violence toward you or others

Continual arguing or fighting with siblings

Making inappropriate remarks in front of physically or mentally disabled guests, dwarves, or obese people

Refusing to get on rides after you have waited an eternity in line


Or if you don't have any stories of your own, what have you witnessed from OTHER people's children?

I have seen adults do this as well!

cheers
jaysue

 

[AllyCatTapia]

Well, Sandra, I guess if you want to deprive your future- non existent "children", thats your choice!

My opinion is that my kids embarrass me and have meltdowns pretty much no matter where they are if they are hungry, tired, or sleep deprived. But when my 6 and 3 year old meet Cinderella and think it REALLY IS cinderella- your 19 year old visitors better keep their mouths closed!

 

[kimmikayb]

Well, Sandra, I guess if you want to deprive your future- non existent "children", thats your choice!

My opinion is that my kids embarrass me and have meltdowns pretty much no matter where they are if they are hungry, tired, or sleep deprived. But when my 6 and 3 year old meet Cinderella and think it REALLY IS cinderella- your 19 year old visitors better keep their mouths closed!

well said allycat....I had to chuckle a little at her plans for her non existent children. Sounds like something I might have said when I was 19 without kids. But once those little darlings came along, I couldn't wait to see their faces at WDW and see it through their eyes. If that means putting up with poop, pee, vomit, crying, meltdowns and *gasp* NAPS....it's all worth it to me. Those memories are priceless for me. Until you have kids, you just have no idea and I say that from experience.