18 of the cutest mistakes that kids have made

“My third grader recently came home and told me, ‘I made a new friend today. He has optimism.’ He meant that his new friend has autism but I loved it so much we still refer to it as optimism at our house.” —Deb B, 46

“Our four-year-old was watching a show where they were speaking French, and asked us, ‘What channel are they speaking?’ Ah, the TV generation!” —Jenny S, 36

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“We were trying to teach our young daughter to use her words to talk about her feelings when she was upset. But we quickly discovered that what we said wasn’t exactly what she’d heard. Whenever she’d get upset she’d yell, ‘Your feelings hurt me!’ She’s not totally wrong.” —Garry S, 60

“When my son was three, he ran and hid after a very loud muscle car drove by. When we asked him what was wrong he answered, ‘That really freaks me off!’ instead of ‘freaks me out.’ It was so funny we still use his version of the phrase in our home.” —Taylor J, 36

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“I was standing in line with my three-year-old daughter when she noticed the very big man standing behind us. He was perhaps 200cm and about 180kg. She turned around from pushing her little kid cart, looked up and said thoughtfully ‘Oh, a giant.’ Then she calmly went back to her shopping cart as if it was the most normal thing in the world. I couldn’t stop laughing.” —Quish T, 41

“Our oldest daughter Jayne, five years old, was so excited to get a cappuccino at the coffee shop and she was determined to order it herself. So she marched up to the counter and boldly said ‘I’ll take a tall crappacino!’ The whole line burst out laughing.” —Heather I, 49

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“My mum was babysitting my three-year-old when he walked in on her as she was getting dressed. She’s a very well-endowed woman, a fact he noticed right away as he commented, ‘You feed babies? You feed lots of babies!’” —Shannon H, 40

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“When my oldest daughter was in kindergarten they learned the song ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas,’ and her favourite line to sing was ‘Oh, bring us some piggy pudding!’ We let her sing it that way for years because it was so cute. She was in high school when she finally learned it was ‘figgy pudding’ and was so mad hadn’t told her. So now every year the whole family sings piggy pudding just for her.” —Francis P, 66

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“When my two-year-old saw a man with long brown hair and a long beard, his eyes grew big and round and he shouted “That’s Jesus!” over and over, despite my desperate (but discreet) attempts to quiet him. I finally just told him, ‘No, that’s his brother,’ and strangely that was enough to get him to settle down.” —Melissa S, 36

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