Loud observations from my 3 year old.

mnemosyne
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One of the things I love about this age is the complete lack of sarcasm; everything is sincere, and almost completely without judgement. But how to teach tact, without teaching dishonesty or censorship? Is it possible?
She saw a large woman bending over and started giggling and pointing, "She has a big butt!! Big butt!!" She wasn't making fun of the woman, just pointing out what she saw. Then today in the grocery store she saw a man with a similair build and skin tone and got very excited, yelling "Obama! Obama! It's Obama Baracka!"
I really think she's too young to learn to bite her tongue...any advice/damage control techniques here?

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I have already started to

I have already started to explain to DD (2y9m soon) that even words can hurt.I do not know how much she understands what I am talking about, but anyway.
Oh, and I love that "Obama Baracka"! That is so great! It gave e a big warm smile!

...the lover, the dreamer, and me (Jim Henson)

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denessasma
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. first let me say that from

. first let me say that from go i have told my girls we accept everybody. the woman who watched my girls when carl got locked up is a large woman. whenever nessa has said anything about someone being fat i go so? i'm fat right? miss theresa(the sitter) is fat who cares. you love me and miss theresa right? and she would of course say yes then i would be like well then who cares, i would then proceed to tell her that it could/would hurt someones feelings. we have a man in our neighborhood who is in a wheelchair nessa is terrified of the man for some reason he is nice as pie but he would speak to her and she would cower behind me and then she;'d be like im frightnend so of course i explain that his legs just dont work and there is no reason to be scared i tell her just like daddy walks funny(her father was shot and has a steel plate in his leg now)that mans legs just dont work. i try and
make it as simple as possible now nessa is a little older than yours bt i just try and teach them people being different than you makes no difference in the world.i think most folks know kids just blurt shit out.i do they same thing about her staring at people. now for the funny when my nephew was young i worked at wendy's so one day i took him there for something to eat. he was about 4 i guess and the people in front of us were waiting on their food and their kid started eating his fries my nephew taps him on the leg and goes"you really shouldnt be chewing with your mouth open. my grandma says thats disgusting" i wanted to DIE i was like kelly thats not nice to tell people and he goes"well thats what my grandma says" Wink nessa learned a lesson in this herself we were on the bus one day and carlisle is a horrible bus rider she always wants to walk around so she fusses the whole time, so one day was really bad we had to ride the bus all over town and carlisle fussed the whole day. so we are on the bus and im standing with carlisle because it calms her down and some teenagers started talking about me and carlisle and nessa heard them she got very upset she saw them laughing at me and her little sister and she told them"you want me to make you get off this bus while she showed them her fist" i laughed and told her she shoouldnt talk to adults that way but when we got off the bus i told her that that was how people feel if she were to talk about them and i think she actually got it. damn that was long sorry.

Jessica
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~~Dr.Seuss

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~~Dr.Seuss

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We were in the airport last

We were in the airport last week, and a woman next to us had a haircut that was shaved on one side and longer and spiky on the other, with white-blond highlights- I noticed her only in passing until Ella said, "look at THAT haircut. That's pretty crazy!" And I said, "hmmm, it's short and spiky, isn't it?" She replied (to my horror) "she looks like a daddy." If we had been close enough for the woman to hear, I'm not sure what I would have done. I'm sure there will be much more embarrassing things over the years...

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nah

just ride it out, he just doesn't think about how his voice is carrying and all that. when he learns that, it'll pass. and anyone who doesn't have a sense of humor about a kid's observations can't be helped anyway. the shitty part is when they say something a kid would ordinarily not know or not notice, people automatically think they learned it from their parents. my kid used to say her "S" sounds more like a "Z" sound. so "juice" sounded like "jews." which, if she liked juice would be one thing but she said it with disdain. "no, i don't want any jjjeeews." i lived in fear of people hearing that and believing that we speak that way in our house. big butt, bald head, pants too small, she's so old, why did that lady draw black lines on her face, my kid said it all. people take it in stride. kids are kids.

oh, there was one time when she was car parts shopping with her father and a biker with all the regalia walked into the store and she pointed to him and said, "look at the doofus, daddy!" but the biker liked it. luckily for daddy.

You gotta work like you’ve never been hurt, fuck like you don’t need the money, and scratch like nobody’s watching.-Krystal

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