My brother answered the "What is daddy doing?" question by saying "Daddy is in a prison". He technically was in prison... on a placement during his masters degree for behavioral studies ;)

My grandma moved up to live with us, and got a part time job as an administrator In the local open prison. In our junior school "our family" display wall display I wrote: "My Nan sleeps in the garage when not at prison." The garage was converted and she went ballistic at parents evening when she saw it.

At kindergarten I said my dad "draws cats and talks to the ladies" at his job. He was an architect... Apparently, he took me to work when I was around 3 and I asked him to draw a cat. And I suppose he was talking with his colleagues while drawing ...

My kids think that I'm in a daycare like they are, because I'm going to the Deutsch school lernen how to speak the language.

I always thought my dad was going to school, because that's what I did every day.

my 4yo thinks I spend my work time 'putting children to bed' - I'm a bed manager in a paediatric hospital :)

One kid told me his uncle was an exhibitionist.

Circumlocution!

when people ask what he does, my dad tells them "i spend your tax dollars!" his sister says he's a rocket scientist. both are correct, he's a chemical engineer who is a contractor at NASA.

So what would my younger self say about my dad being an archeologist and my mom being a social anthropologist? XD