I wish I had a dollar for every time that one of my children said something to embarrass me! And like you, I get great pleasure out of hearing that one of my grandkids has done the same to her mother!

I smile at my adult chidren and say, "What goes around, comes around." Or I just smile and they say, "We know..."

I know the feeling you must have had. My embarrassment came from my small sister. We were in a store shopping for her Easter dress when an old black woman who was wearing a man's overcoat entered. My little sister piped up in a very loud and shrill voice saying, "Darlene, who's that dirty old man?" I ducked behind a rack of clothes and told her that was a woman and that she wasn't dirty. I wanted to apologize to the woman and then slide through the floor.

This is in the same league--but with a gender difference--with a remark that my daughter, when she was about 6, made as we were shopping in a supermarket. As a man walked down the same aisle as we were in, my daughter, pointing at the man, shouted: "Dad, does that man have a penis?"

Ronni -- you know why grands and grand parents get along so well, don't you?

We have a common enemy.

A friend told me that the ultimate mother's curse is:

"I hope you get a kid just like you!"

And they always do!!!! LOL