‘What’s the most unsettling thing a child has ever said to you?’ – 19 uncomfortable truths out of the mouths of babes

10.

When my little sister was about 5 years old, she was in the living room with the family and she said “the whole family is here! And the old man! 😄”

There was no old man. My mom said “what old man” and my sister goes “he’s sitting right next to you!”
–cosmicallyalive

11.

Putting my 4 y/o daughter to bed one night, she looks at me in the eyes, only with the nightlight can I see her face and she whispers “there’s something in the garage.”
–alioop07

12.

“Mommy, do you bamember when I was an old man and you was a little baby and I taked care of you and then I died?”

No, ma’am, I do NOT “bamember” that…
–desertfox728

13.

“Why do I remember parachuting into France?” My little brother, who was ~4 or 5 at the time.
–A_Fish_Called_Panda

14.

Tucking my daughter into bed and she whispers, ‘Tell the tall man behind you to stop staring at me, it’s making me sleepy.’ I was alone in the room. I didn’t sleep that night.
–Upstairs_Moter_2855

15.

“I like your skin, can I have it?”
–molten_dragon

16.

Our cat recently died. My 4 yr old daughter asked to get a new one. I said no because Dad is allergic to cats (the cat was mine before we met, he is a good man who lived with allergies for a decade for me). I explain this to daughter. She is quiet for a moment, then says, completely earnestly: “When Daddy dies, can we get a cat?”
–Harriet566

17.

A child I did not know at my niece’s birthday party, completely unprompted, told me that if I ever got stabbed, I should not remove the knife myself, or I might bleed to death.
–sabrekittie

18.

My kid reminded me that I’m older than every dog alive. That was…an experience.
–callmemara

19.

My 5yo as we’re driving past a cemetery: look at all those dead people. That’s sad

Me: explains that some of them lived long, happy lives, and that death isn’t terrible

5yo: … and then we sew their skins into our clothing!

(she had been learning about leatherworking in preschool and it didn’t register that you don’t just use any skins…)
–africaner

For the record, I still have the scrap of paper passed to me by my young daughter, which read: “I’m gonnur spanner you up” in immature yet menacing writing. She is now a married adult, and I continually live in fear that I am still owed a spannering. We live hundreds of miles apart, just in case.

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