# That feeling when you realize your kid has his own adult-ish sense of humor **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989 "2017-10-04T23:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/1 "2017-10-04T23:48:13Z")
I yelled upstairs for Bricker Jr to come down and put a casserole dish into the oven to reheat for dinner. He yells back that it’ll be five minutes. Seeking to motivate him (he’s a history buff) I said, “OK, five minutes, no more, or I’ll be on you like you were a French Huguenot and I work for Catherine de Medici!” A moment later he appears at the stairwell with a serious expression and says, totally deadpan, “I know you’re joking, but Papito: people died.” He pauses for effect. “Too soon,” he admonishes me. “Too soon.” Then he skips merrily back to his room. ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/2 "2017-10-04T23:59:03Z")
I heart your kid. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/3 "2017-10-05T00:35:43Z")
Love it! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/4 "2017-10-05T00:37:47Z")
Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/5 "2017-10-05T00:39:03Z")
Your kid is awesome. But I am posting, of course, to share my own anecdote. Last year I was putting my daughter in her car seat after preschool. I accidentally bonked her head on the roof of the car. “Ow, Daddy!” she said, grinning. “You made me die! I’m dead!” It had been a long day. “Honey,” I said, “Don’t joke about death like that. Death makes people sad, and jokes should make people happy.” “Okay. I love you!” “Oh, I love you too!” I said. “See, that makes me happy!” “I was joking.” I have never been so burned. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/6 "2017-10-05T00:51:35Z")
Am putting my 6-yo to sleep. She’s been whining the whole evening about one thing or another. I tell her: “I’m really not happy about your whining today”. 6yo (smirk on her face): “Well, daddy, I hope you’ll be happier tomorrow.” ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/7 "2017-10-05T00:58:24Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Your kid is awesome. But I am posting, of course, to share my own anecdote. > > Last year I was putting my daughter in her car seat after preschool. I accidentally bonked her head on the roof of the car. “Ow, Daddy!” she said, grinning. “You made me die! I’m dead!” > It had been a long day. “Honey,” I said, “Don’t joke about death like that. Death makes people sad, and jokes should make people happy.” > “Okay. I love you!” > “Oh, I love you too!” I said. “See, that makes me happy!” > “I was joking.” > > I have never been so burned. This one made me laugh and laugh. You better watch out for this one. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/8 "2017-10-05T03:38:22Z")
I always get a kick out of how smart kids can be when you least expect it. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/9 "2017-10-05T09:09:57Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Am putting my 6-yo to sleep. She’s been whining the whole evening about one thing or another. > > I tell her: “I’m really not happy about your whining today”. > 6yo (smirk on her face): “Well, daddy, I hope you’ll be happier tomorrow.” Wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/10 "2017-10-05T09:49:54Z")
More! More! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/11 "2017-10-05T09:59:52Z")
Maturity is also in the jokes you appreciate… The Smaller Girl has been having a big month. All our kids get to go on the school trip to China when they’re in Grade 6. This was her year. Coincidentally at nearly the same time it was her birthday and I took her to Sydney…and just before we left one of her friends randomly invited her to go to he Royal Melbourne Show, which is kinda big, this time of year. So when she hears the last of these, the Taller Girl puts on a dramatic expression. “She gets to go to the _Show!_ and she gets to go to _Sydney_! And she gets to go to _China_!” _tosses head artistically_ “And you claim you don’t have a favourite child!” I look at her in vague puzzlement. “You know, I don’t think that I did claim…” (It’s only funny because she thought it hilarious, of course) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/12 "2017-10-05T10:07:13Z")
I’ve told this before here: Scene: small restaurant bathroom. Me at the urinal, my then-4-year-old son in the stall, so we can’t see each other. Boy: Dad, are we in a bathroom? Me: uh, yeah. What’s up? Boy: so we can use bathroom words? (Our house word for words not appropriate in public) Me, smiling curiously: Yesssss… Boy: :: pauses, takes a long, deep inhale:: penispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenis…PENIS!!! Me: ::loses it:: ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/13 "2017-10-05T11:52:57Z")
I was out cycling with my, then three years old, niece. As we’re going through the harbour I warned not to go to close to edge because she might fall in the ocean. As a response I got a lovely little poem told in a sing-songy voice: Uncle at the harbour He got too close to the edge He fell in the ocean He can’t get up He drowns **I** have to go home alone The way she emphasized that last line implied her having to go home by herself was the real tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-feeling-when-you-realize-your-kid-has-his-own-adult-ish-sense-of-humor/797989/14 "2017-10-05T20:47:54Z")
My 3-year old daughter somehow opened the window by her car seat, and was waving her Woody doll (Toy Story) outside. I made her stop, and she said, “Say goodbye to the open road, Woody.”