<p>Shall we start a list? Here are my choices</p>
<ul>
<li>dance to rock in front of your kids</li>
<li>sing</li>
<li>play air guitar</li>
</ul>
<p>Here’s one. We were in the basement of a friends’ house and the power went out. We started his generator to get power back to the basement. So my friend’s dad turns to us and says, “Ok, Nick, we’re good. I’m gonna go upstairs and make out with your mom.” Cue look of shock and cringe from his son, cracking up by the rest of us.</p>
<p>Yep, any references or even hints about actually having a sex life will be cringe-inducing. :-)</p>
<p>Evidently just talking to my son makes him cringe. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>fredo – LOL</p>
<p>Talking to one of their friends on AIM…</p>
<p>Telling them you are considering getting a myspace account. :-)</p>
<p>MomofWildChild wrote:
“Talking to one of their friends on AIM…”</p>
<p>LOL…so true with my younger D. She takes it further when I used to answer the phone (she doesn’t live at home anymore but back in HS) and a friend of hers would be on the line and shudder, if I actually chatted at all with the friend to be polite before calling her to the phone!</p>
<p>Wearing my thong to the beach.</p>
<p>Giving said child a kiss or hug in public.</p>
<p>My mum got a myspace account and she is VERY open about what she says on it</p>
<p>Haha, I talk to my friend’s mom on AIM sometimes…</p>
<p>Telling my son I’m going to put on my thongs… (I MEAN the kind that go on the feet, and he knows it!)</p>
<p>I promised my kids that I would try very hard not to do anything that would embarass them in front of their friends. Some behaviors that would surely mortify them would be:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Tuck my son in bed when he has friends sleeping over (when there’s no one around, he likes to get a little neck/back rub and talk about his day).</p></li>
<li><p>Ask him if he’s changed his socks or washed up in the morning (in the presence of friends).</p></li>
<li><p>Ask to play with the complimentary kids’ toys or crayons at a family restaurant (hey, I’m a teacher - I need to field test these things!)</p></li>
<li><p>Talk about how cute he was as a baby and about his embarassing childhood moments.</p></li>
<li><p>When he comes home or leaves home, ask him if he needs to use the bathroom (I grew up in a home where my parents would ask that, even when we were adults!)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>We like to turn rap music up and roll the windows down while wildly rocking our heads to the music and throwing each other made up hand signs. Kids will quickly disappear below window level! We’ve never made it through a whole song without laughing so much we had to stop rocking out.</p>
<p>Tell them that I have psychic abilities and that I can talk to unborn children and they tell me who they are going to be.</p>
<p>Breathe (particularly in public).</p>
<p>Calling “one of his best friends” whom I’ve met maybe once (maybe never) by the wrong name. I threatened to call all the boys Kevin and all the girls Sarah; that would cover most of them, but he didn’t seem amused.</p>
<p>Of course, he gets really annoyed when I call him by the dog’s name, too.</p>
<p>Telling any of my collection of ancient jokes.</p>
<p>They still haven’t figured out that it is their reactions that I think are funny, not the stupid joke.</p>
<p>To make my D cringe when with friends (though I’ve done it enough by now she just laughs): When I hear a “deep” slow, song, like “We are the World” by Michael Jackson, I put both arms in the air and slowly wave them side to side like at a concert.</p>
<p>Son: ask him if he has spare keys/gloves/hats</p>