Parents often have their own vocabulary when it comes to raising kids. Anyone outside of the parenting world might be completely confused by the terms parents use.
One woman learned that the hard way during a dinner conversation that left her momentarily bewildered.
A few weeks ago, TikToker Anna (@annabrowniie) and her husband went out on a double date with their friends, who have a baby. The baby has bright red hair and turns one year old sometime in March. He was the star of the evening.
“He’s like smiling, talking to everyone in the restaurant,” said Anna. “So well-behaved. If I can have a child who acts like that one day, I would be honored.”
Everyone was admiring how cute he was. His mother affectionately rubbed his head as they chatted about their week. She revealed that her baby had a blowout at daycare a week ago.
Anna was surprised that daycares had blowouts for children. In her mind, the word meant something totally different. She had always associated the term “blowout” with getting your hair styled.
Naturally, this left her wondering why on earth a daycare would be offering that kind of service. She supposed it could make sense with how much daycare costs.
The baby’s mother quickly clarified the misunderstanding before the confusion could spiral any further. In parenting terms, a blowout refers to a diaper disaster, specifically when a baby poops so much that it leaks beyond the diaper and requires a full bath and outfit change.
Anna couldn’t help but laugh at herself once she realized how wrong she was, saying, “I literally thought they were offering like child blowouts at daycare these days, like that you get at a dry bar.”
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After sharing the story online, many TikTok users admitted that they, or others they knew, had made similar mixups and flooded the comments section with their own hilarious misunderstandings involving blowouts.
They make it clear that everyday words can take on different meanings depending on the context.
“I went to a dry bar while on a work trip once. The next day at the meeting, I was telling people I got a blowout there because we don’t have one. Tell me why one man and three women didn’t know what I meant. They thought it was THIS blowout,” commented one user.
“Hahaha, one time, I told family, ‘Sorry we’re late; they had a blowout on the way here,’ and they thought I was referring to our tires,” wrote another.
“My friend told me the other day that they had a blowout on the way to drop her baby off at daycare. I was like, ‘Oh no, can your tire be fixed?'” added a third.
By Emily Chan
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