The funniest things grandkids say
We all know that kids have a unique view on the world and will come up with the cutest sayings… or the harshest of observations that only a child would say out loud! So we asked the Over60 community to share the funniest words that have come from their grandchildren and you were all more than happy to oblige. If you’re looking for a laugh today, just read on for some hilarious, precious and simply adorable observations from our innocent young grandkids.
“My granddaughter was still in nappies at the time. I was sitting on the floor and 'passed wind'. She came up to me and pulled me forward, pulled out the back of my pants, looked down and turned to my wife and said 'he's ok'.” – Neville Warner
“I was quite sick and staying at my son’s house. Sammy, who was 13, leaned over me and said very sadly, ‘Are they going to put you down Nan?’” – Lorraine Lake
“I had been in the swimming pool with my granddaughters and wanted to get out, so I said ‘I'm getting out, look at my fingers they've gone all wrinkly.'’ Quick as a whip, Sam, 11 at the time, said to me, ‘You were all wrinkled before you got in Nan!'’ Cheeky devil!” – Robynne Logan
“My grandson Lachlan had just started school and a few weeks later he said, ‘Nan, I can read you a story. Would you like to hear me?’ Well, I thought gee we have a miracle here! So we both sat up on his bed, he opened his book and I waited and waited and waited.... Finally, I said, ‘Ok darl, you can start now,’ and he said, ‘Nan! Haven't you heard of silent reading?!” – Jenny Godwin
“I was walking in the gardens of inner city Brisbane with one of my grandsons who was about three at the time. We walked past some beautiful roses and he said, ‘Don’t smell them, Nana. I just farted on them.’” – Sue Ryan
“I was helping our eight-year-old granddaughter with her homework and asked her to spell ‘supervision’ which she did beautifully. When asked what it meant she said, ‘This was what super heroes had!’” – Judith Stefanos
“I told my granddaughter she will be the next prime minister. Her reply, ‘I will have to learn how to be a liar, Nanna.” – Patricia Obrien
“My niece's four-year-old was playing with his food at a family lunch. His mum said, ‘If you want to grow up to be like uncle, you need to eat your lunch,’ to which he said, ‘I don't want to grow up fat and bald!” – Lynette Thomas Stone
“We were trying to explain to Mackenzie, seven, that a rooster was a male chook. Her response, ‘Do chooks get mail too?’ The same child on a road trip saw some cows and asked if they were dairy cows. When we told her no she replied, ‘They must be the lactose free ones.’” – Leonie Walker
“I was visiting my mum with my five-year-old granddaughter. She climbs on her Nan Nan’s knee, strokes her face and says, ‘Oh dear Nan Nan, your face is going down like a balloon.” – Shirley Butler
“My granddaughter was really growing fast and I said to her, ‘If you keep going you’ll be another foot in a week.’ She burst into tears and said, ‘I don’t want another foot.’” – Lyn Rippey
“My granddaughter aged ten 10 had just finished playing basketball and said, ‘Nanny my leg is sore. I think I pulled my G-string.’ She meant her hamstring.” – Maree Munro
“Miss was four and taking grandpa's pulse while playing Doctor and said, ‘Mmmm 30.5, nearly dead.’” – Denise McMahon
“I was telling my granddaughter, who had just turned two, to do something. She stood with her hands on hips and said to me, ‘Nana, you stress me out, man’. What could I say but crack up laughing.” – Fiona Majder
“My eight-year-old grandson was showing me his drawing book which had lots of games of noughts and crosses in it. I asked who had been playing the game with him. He said, ‘Oh Nana, l play by myself, l always win that way.’” – Caroline Englert
“My grandson, aged about three, asked me, ‘When are you going to get your young face?’ When I replied that I had already had my young face, he said, ‘You mean you have to look like that forever?’ – Suzanne Lord
“We had a tsunami scare in Cairns a few years ago. My Granddaughter, aged three, walked into my work place and yelled, ‘A salami is coming!’” – Mary Kenyon Fisher
“I took a small hand shovel to the cemetery to tizzy up Dad's grave. My son says, ‘Is your Dad dead?’ I replied yes. He then asked, ‘What are you digging him up for?’ – Denise Halliwell
“My granddaughter was sitting on the veranda with Poppy who was snoozing. He says, ‘Nan! Pop has flies up his nose, I can see their legs sticking out.’” – Margaret Harwood
“After collecting mail out of our letter box my four-year-old (who is now 32) asked me what the letters were. I said they are bills! His reply, ‘Well why don't you give them to him?’ It was so funny as we have a friend named Bill.” – Kay Holien