Mother shares her two-year-old daughter’s hilarious response to a nursery task

A mother was left in stitches after her two-year-old daughter told her nursery teacher that she wants to be ‘an onion’ when she grows up. 

Little Liliya came home with a photograph she had taken at nursery as part of a task to find out each child’s dream job.

The prompt read: ‘The wonderful things you will be. Aged two. When Liliya grows up she wants to be….’

When mother Rachel Hughes, 32, of south London, turned over the photo she was tickled to find her daughter had answered ‘an onion’. 

When mother Rachel Hughes, 32, of south London, turned over the photo she was tickled to find her daughter had answered ‘an onion’. Pictured, Rachel and her daughter 

Rachel, a wedding beautician, said: ‘It was parents’ day at the nursery and they give you a little pack of your child’s drawings and other things such as what they would like to be.

‘They gave you a little report and it mentioned that Liliya had said she wanted to be an onion a few days before they did this task.

‘I have spoken to her key worker at the nursery but whenever anyone asks why Liliya wants to be an onion she just says “don’t ask me why”.

The nursery gave all the children a prompt, pictured, and sent home the answers in a packet for parents at parents’ day 

Little Liliya tickled her mother by revealing she wanted to be ‘an onion’ – and shared a video of the moment on TikTok

‘Liliya always wants to be an onion but she has a younger brother and I asked her what he will be and she said a potato.

Rachel added: ‘I initially made the video just for family but then they suggested putting it online and it has been really nice to read all the comments from other people about their experiences.’

The proud mother shared a video on TikTok, saying: ‘This, I’m going to have to get this framed…. 

‘All the other kids will have policemen, nurses, you know the normal things but you know she wants to be an onion.’

Adorable Liliya, pictured with mother Rachel, didn’t have any explanation for why she wanted to be an onion when she grows up

‘Liliya always wants to be an onion but she has a younger brother and I asked her what he will be and she said a potato,’ Rachel, pictured with her daughter, said

The clip has since attracted over 700,000 views and more than 119,000 likes. 

Thousands of amused viewers have left comments applauding Liliya for her answer, with some seeing a deeper meaning to her choice.

One said: ‘She wants to have layers.’

Another wrote: ‘I love they didn’t push her for a proper answer. She said what she said.’

A third commented: ‘When they asked our daughter what she wanted to be in nursery years ago she said ‘a lesbian’. The teachers couldn’t stop laughing telling us.’

Another added: ‘Imagine the teacher’s face when she said that to her.’

While one person said: ‘I once did this with the kids at nursery and one of them wanted to be a toaster.’

The clip has since attracted over 700,000 views and more than 119,000 likes. Thousands of amused viewers have left comments applauding Liliya for her answer, with some seeing a deeper meaning to her choice