Ask The Flock

"Tucking my sons in for what felt like the hundredth time that night after all the excuses (water, too dark, too light, hot, cold, hearing noises…I'm sure all you mums get it) and I said, 'For Pete's sake would you two just go to sleep!!' Then I hear a tiny voice whisper, 'Who's Pete?'"
@insteffgrams

"A, trying to get out of eating her tea, 'Mum, will you marry me?'"
@anna.stewy

"It will get done faster if I am there too Dad!"
@tiffanycawte

"Had to laugh when talking to my 3 and 5-year-olds Tom and Mila about how Granny has gone all the way up to Kerikeri to see her sister (we live in Ohakune). Kids asked if we could go see Pop and I said for sure, we are on school holidays so we can do whatever, I would just have to see where Pop will be working (he does casual on top of the farm at their place). Mila quickly said that Pop won't be at work as he is going to stay at home and do ALL of granny's jobs instead!"
Kate Berry

"'Come on.' Said very impatiently and forcefully by an almost-2-year-old."
@nzlaws88

"We have a tiny dog with long hair (especially around her rear) and my funny boy started calling them her 'butt curtains'."
@miroyarns

"This week my son told me he wished he could remove my head so that he could take it to bed with him & cuddle it at night."
@libby_chambers_art

"My husband was dropping me off to an orchard in Edgecumbe last weekend so I could deliver my annual manager's report to the shareholders. Our 3 kids were securely stowed away in the back ready to be whisked off to Whakatane with Dad for a couple of hours of playgrounds and ice creams. Pulling into the driveway we stopped the car briefly and I exchanged a few pleasantries with some of the owners who were milling about the entrance. As we were about to roll on down to the shed, my normally quiet 4-year-old son declared very loudly and clearly for all to hear, 'MUM, I didn't know you had friends!' While looking about with a face full of genuine disbelief."
@agriskmgmt

"Mum, I brought home someone's tooth from school to get money from the tooth fairy!"
@we.are.the.roberts

"My 2-year-old grandson came up to have tea with me. Straight away he grabbed the kitchen mop and started sweeping the floor saying, 'Too dirty!!' Hmmm, embarrassingly funny."
@kristen_hopai

"5-year-old at a funeral: 'When are we going to bury this guy?'"
@bext27

"My Dad's a team roper. Olivia watched one of his videos and said, 'Go Pop, hula hoop those cows!' Sweetest thing ever - we all call it hula hooping now."
@madison_coulter_artist