18 of the cutest mistakes that kids have made

Hey, it can be tough figuring out this world we live in! These innocent goofs will give you the chuckle you needed today.

“My 4-year-old son calls all robbers ‘Roberts.’ It’s cute until he meets someone actually named Robert and then it’s hilarious. He’ll ask questions like, ‘Are all Roberts bad?’ ‘How did a Robert get in our house?’ ‘Are there any Roberts hiding in my room?’ Thankfully all our friends named Robert have a good sense of humour.” —Rebecca G, 35

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“Tyler loves to play with our nativity set at Christmas time. One night I was asking him who everyone was. I pointed to a wise man holding a package. ‘Who’s this?’ I asked. ‘The pizza guy,’ he replied. Makes sense – Mary and Joseph probably would have loved a pizza that night.” —Tracy P, 38

“My five-year-old daughter has always been super chatty with strangers. Most of the time it’s fine but one day we were waiting in line at the supermarket after a long day of collecting crab shells at the beach. When we got to the front, she said loudly to the cashier, ‘Hi, I’m Audrey and this is my mum Shelli and she has crabs!’ Of course I wasn’t holding any crabs at that moment. I turned bright red as the whole line went dead silent.” —Shelli C, 44

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“My two-year-old daughter was still figuring out when to use ‘you’ and when to use ‘me.’ So one day we were driving along and she starts yelling, ‘Mama! I see a statch-me! A statch-me!’ We were so puzzled until we realised that she was looking at [a statue]. Get it? A statch-you!” —Amanda O, 31

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“My two-year-old daughter’s favourite movie is Mary Poppins, and she loves to sing along to all the songs. One day we noticed she was actually singing the lyric as ‘your heart starts beating like a big ass band.’ I never corrected her because it made me giggle and she was two and had no idea what a ‘brass band’ was anyway so it was cute.” —Janette K, 37

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“My three boys have always been fascinated by soldiers, and so one day when we saw a man in uniform at the mall they begged to go talk to him. I told them he was a veteran and they could go thank him for his service to our country. But my five-year-old got a little confused and loudly announced, ‘Hey thank you for being such a great veterinarian!” The soldier took it well and told him he too loved dogs… and kids.” —Jason A, 41

“My three-year-old misunderstood skyscrapers and instead calls the tall buildings in the city ‘skywalkers.’ We had recently watched Star Wars, and it’s so cute we just let her think it.” —Robyn S, 31

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“We were driving in the car when my nine-year-old son suddenly started screaming, ‘It burns! It burns!’ We frantically tried to figure out what was hurting him when he blew something out of his nose. I picked it up. My son had stuck a mint cough drop up his nose because it was for congestion and he thought it would clear up his nasal stuffiness! I almost wet my pants laughing as I tried to explain that that’s not how it works.” —Angela W, 40

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“I took my four- and two-year-old on a trip to the zoo. When we got to the enclosure featuring wild boars my older son exclaimed excitedly, ‘Oh look that one is giving his friend a piggyback ride!’ I followed his gaze to see the animals not playing ‘piggyback’ but doing, well, what animals do. I was ready to shrug it off and continue but then a nearby zookeeper said, ‘Actually that’s how they make babies.’ My son looked at her, then looked at me, then looked at his little brother and then back at me again before yelling, ‘Is that what you and daddy did to get Charlie?’ I died.” —Jess M, 32

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