A youngster with a starring role in her school's nativity play ended up flipping off the entire audience while trying to show her mum her sore finger.
Mum Kizzi Parry-Griffiths was left shocked when her daughter Daisy Parry-Griffiths, who was playing the role of Mary, suddenly put up her middle finger while her little classmates sang on.
Photos caught during the performance, which was back in 2018, show little Daisy, four, standing centre stage before proudly holding up her middle finger and smiling at her mum.
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Kizzi, from Swansea, Wales, said: "I look forward to the school's nativity each year to see what she's going to come up with next.
"It was her first nativity as well and when she got the role of Mary I was so excited for her. Then that happened.
"We sat down. She was Mary. They were all singing along, and all of a sudden she starts looking at me and putting her middle finger up.
"I was looking around thinking, 'is everyone seeing what I'm seeing?' She's such a good child. It's not like she's known for swearing or anything like that.
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"I was looking around thinking, 'what's going on?'. It wasn't until the end when I collected her that she said when she got into school she had hurt her finger and they had put a plaster on it.
"She was just trying to show me that she had a plaster on her finger.
"I did a quick message to the parents on the WhatsApp group explaining what she was doing. Someone said, 'do you know what, I was wondering what she was doing'.
"I think everyone was thinking, 'is she actually [swearing]?'. But yeah, it was just a plaster. It was on her middle finger.
"I think she was holding it up for quite a while. It wasn't just a second or so and a chance photograph that I caught. It was actually her swearing at me.
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"I didn't have a clue about what was going on. I was panicking a little bit and I didn't see the funny side because I didn't know what she was doing.
"When a child comes out with something new you're like, 'oh god, here we go'. The fact that she was centre stage in the school hall, I was just thinking, 'what's going on?'.
"That sigh of relief when she told me what happened, it was like, 'oh lovely'. She's a funny girl."
Kizzi says her now six-year-old daughter had no idea she was swearing and the youngster was embarrassed when she seen the snaps again this year.
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"I don't know if she's one of the best Mary's I've ever seen in a nativity - not with her middle finger up. She wasn't Mary the year after.
"She wasn't invited back to be Mary. I don't think she'll get into acting when she's older. She's really shy.
"She loves it all, but even singing with me if she's practising a song from school, I've got to be looking away from her. She doesn't like the spotlight.
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"She's definitely got such a good sense of humour. She is wise beyond her years.
"Daisy wouldn't have a clue what [putting her middle finger up] means.
"It's funny because I showed her the memory this year and she looked quite shocked and a bit embarrassed because she didn't realise what the situation was.
"I explained it to her and she saw the funny side. But she saw a photo of herself swearing and just reacted like, 'what?'. She's learned what it means now.
"It's hilarious, the things she does. The next year she was a sheep and so I joked to the family that she had been demoted from Mary after the swearing incident.
"Then she was sitting with the sheep's head on, and it had the face cut out for her face to go through, and she sat down and the hole was above her head so you can't see her face at all.
"She was sitting inside the sheep's costume. It's all little stuff like that. Light-hearted fun, especially at Christmas.
"My daughter is quite shy. She's a bit quirky, but she's shy. I like it when she does stuff like this."
Featured Image Credit: Kennedy News and MediaTopics: Christmas, Funny, UK, Wales