Have your children embarrassed you at Disney/Orlando?

[FionaLovesShrek]

Oh Gosh, Yes! Our AK day DD9 threw a temper tantrum, screaming, crying and stomping. All because I told her to carry her own water bottle. She just lost it completely, and in the process ruined the face painting she had just gotten.

 

[cleo]

Sandra, I wish you had read ALL the posts rather than just the first 65. We've been trying really, really hard to get back on track with the TOPIC and avoid the inevitable responses to posts like the one you just posted.

*Sigh*

It's hard to ignore, folks, but if this one is going to stay open can we just keep posting about our kids and ignore responses that have nothing to do with the topic? I am tempted to remove the latest installment of 'I would NEVER do that with MY kid....if I had one.....' but instead, let's just ignore it if possible.

With that in mind, my son embarrassed me once. When he was 3 we foolishly kept him in the park for about one attraction too long. He was fried, and as we tried to get out of our ship on Peter Pan at the end of the ride, his little hand grabbed the pole in the middle of the ship in a death grip and he began screaming (like he had a megaphone!) "We have to fly to Neverland! We have to fly to Neverland!!"

It took two adults to release his grip, after which he slumped into a heap. I wasn't embarrased by his screaming, but I was mortified at being shown up for the bad parent I was that night, when my boy really should have been tucked up in bed DREAMING of Neverland.

 

[TreslovesWDW]

Yes they do.Whining when they don't get their way,or when they are tired,or crying about not wanting to do a ride. But hey that's kids they all do it all 4 of mine do so it is just normal to me.I see alot of other kids behaving the same or worse.But I did have a embarrasing moment in Sept. when we were right at the door to enter soaring,there were 8 of us,my ds(3) wearing pullup's still but for the most potty trained went #2 and I could smell it. Since we were a party of 8 I knew a stranger would not be sitting next to us so we went on,(we were right there I could not turn back)but the whole time I was so embarrased and could not enjoy the ride thinking everyone could smell it and everyone knew.But no one even looked at us even my own family could not smell it.Not until we got off the ride did I tell them went I said I needed to go clean him up.

 

[disneynewbee]

My dd was 2yo on our last trip and loves chocolate milk but for some reason EVERY time she drank chocolate milk at disney she puked. It wasn't hot when we went so I'm not sure what the problem was. It took us a little bit to figure out it was the milk so it happened several times before we got it and banned all milk products.

 

[KimberlyC]

With that in mind, my son embarrassed me once. When he was 3 we foolishly kept him in the park for about one attraction too long. He was fried, and as we tried to get out of our ship on Peter Pan at the end of the ride, his little hand grabbed the pole in the middle of the ship in a death grip and he began screaming (like he had a megaphone!) "We have to fly to Neverland! We have to fly to Neverland!!"

Now that's funny!

 

[kimmikayb]

Now that's funny!

That IS so funny! I blew pop out of my nose when I read it. I don't suppose it was so funny at the time but can you imagine using this when he is 16? It might have been embarrassing at the time, but oh boy is that a priceless memory or what???

 

[Tigger22]

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

My mom wished this on her four children...and it happened...well, all except me because I have no kids yet! But I'm sure it will happen to me too!!!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

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



This totally cracks me up!!! My kids are so dramatic also! I tell my son who is 3 that he is going to get punished if he doesn't stop whatever crazy thing he is doing and he starts screaming "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ME?!!! I DON'T WANT TO GET PUNISHED! PLEASE! I'LL BE GOOD!!!" Now mind you- punishment is usually no tv or a time out. Nothing that would make the 7:00 news. At home my parents crack up because you would think that we beat the kid senseless on a daily basis!

 

[dps17@case.edu]

when i saw this post i emailed my mom and asked her if i ever embarrased her or my dad, she said i hadn't, even though we went about 15 times over my 19 years on this earth, so im a good DS

 

[Fire14]

While planning trip with niece to wdw I asked her what she wanted to do/see and her 2 requests were have honey with Pooh and see Cinderella!

Also while preparing her for trip I told her what not to say or even think about while in airport so what while in line to go through serurity at airport she starts talking about plane crashing, MY DH turns to airline employee in line behind us and asks him to please tell her plane isn't going to crash which he did and than as we were exiting plane in FL we found out airline employee was our captain!
another thing that had me cracking up was after having to switch planes once during trip down, she asked where next gate was to get on plane and I told her there wasn't one for 7 days, the look on her face was priceless. We had landed in Orlando so didn't need another gate. She was fine once I got her convinced we were in FL.
once on way to wdw I handed her my cell phone and told her to tell her dad that she mae it to fl, so lil tweerp gets on phone tells her dad she is in limo on her way to see mickey and she's not coming home.

 

[Lizzybee]

This is kinda OT but it is an embarrassing theme park moment. We have season's passes to Six Flags Great America so we go often. My daughter decided to go on her first "big" coaster ride and loved it. She was barely 7 and my older son almost 11 at the time had not yet ridden the coaster. Now this is the coaster that was in the park when it opened in the 70s so it's not huge and it doesn't go upside down. Since his younger sister had been on the coaster my son decided to get up the nerve to go on it too. You can either have two people or one person per car. Neither of them wanted to ride alone so I put them together in the car in front of me. Of course, we get stuck! It can be scary to get stuck on a ride but we were not that high up, just sitting there but my DD7 is all about drama and she freaked out. All of you parents of drama kids will understand this but the more attention they get the louder the wails and the bigger the tears. In fact, if you aren't firm with my DD she will work up into such a frenzy she will puke. So here I am trying to calm her down by being firm, not coddling and telling her to chill out and stop fussing, that if she makes herself sick she's in trouble. Meanwhile, the Six Flags employees are being very very attentive to her and dancing and singing for her and saying "oooh sweetie...it's ok honey ooooh". They must have thought I was the meanest mom on Earth, but I actually saved them from having to clean puke.
This is another funny incident, same child but the setting is the school. I get a call from her first grade teacher that she might be upset when she comes home. She lost her rhinocerous, a toy she got as a prize for being good in school. The teacher explained that they held the busses for several minutes and 5-6 grown ups helped her look for it, they questioned the kids on the busses if they had seen it and even had a "lead" on a kid who just might have taken it. I asked..."umm why didn't you just tell her to pick another toy or forget it" and the teacher said she just was so pitiful. I must have parental immunity to her pitiful look.

 

[MHTeacher]

Where have I been that my kids have NOT embarassed me?!?!?!
I love 'em anyway.

 

[wendy1974]

In turtle talk with Crush with my now ex-boyfriend and his two children. His daughter threw her hand up in the air and waved frantically when Crush was taking questions. She asked him how old he was and he answered then he segued into talking about where turtles are born and he asked her where she was born...obviously trying to get her to say "a hospital". Well she hesitated as if she was trying to think really hard and then said, "a land" and he was like "a land...what land?" and she says, "an Island"...OH MYGOODNESS! I was crouching down and I thought my boyfriend was going to crawl under the bench. She was born in North Dakota...hardly an island

 

[MJMcBride]

We went when my son was 2 years old. On Its a Small World, he sat on my lap the whole time. Well, he filled his diaper and then some. My shirt was soaked. At least I got a cool new Disney Villians T-shirt out of the deal.

 

[remmy_7]

Nothing too awful but just a few small things:

DS then age 3 1/2 throwing his coin in the wishing well and saying loudly "I wish I was home, not here". I could have crieed.

that just made me lol!! I can't imagine a kid saying that, it's such a happy place!