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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:08:03 GMT -5
We were over at our neighbours' house for a block party. Guests were still arriving. One of the guest families had a little girl who couldn't have been older than four. Evidently she'd never seen a black person before, because when one of our neighbours (a black lady) arrived, the girl exclaimed loudly, "Mom! That lady looks just like Paddy!" "Paddy" was our neighbours' chocolate lab. You could have heard a pin drop for the next five seconds. I recall everybody taking the statement in good humour, but needless to say, "mom" had to take the girl aside to teach her a few life lessons. how are you 4 years old without seeing at least one black or otherwise "colored" person?
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 26, 2012 10:10:42 GMT -5
I don't know but my one very liberal girlfriend had a black maid and was very careful to explain things to her son about people of different color. She prided herself on that and made sure we all knew how great she was. Then she took the kid to Birmingham, Michigan on a shopping trip and he started hollering about CHOCOLATE people! We all certainly enjoyed her story and her embarrassment.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 26, 2012 10:11:03 GMT -5
Uh, I never saw a black person except on tv until I was 15.
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Post by hockeygrl on Jun 26, 2012 10:11:41 GMT -5
DS is only 17 months and just finding his words. I can't wait until he does something as funny as some of these! Right now, he is serially friendly and will say "hi hi hi hi" until absolutely everyone (including me) in the vicinity says "hi" back.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:13:57 GMT -5
Virgil lives in Canada. I think there is only one black person there.
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Post by jeffreymo on Jun 26, 2012 10:15:50 GMT -5
My son is still a toddler, so the 2 stories I have involve bodily functions:
Once when he was in the 4 to 10 month range we were at a crowded breakfast spot when he had the most explosive diahrea I have ever witnessed. He was in his carrier at the time, and there was just nothing we could do, other than put a blanket over him and leave immediately. Just a nasty situation considering their was barely any elbow room in this place, and everyone had food at their table. The only person that definitely knew what happened was our server as she received warning + a nice tip (though I think most of the mess traveled with us).
2nd one was at a Mellow Mushroom, and he was in the same age range, and once again sitting in his carrier when he had an "exorcist" type vomiting session that infant's sometime have. This time the place wasn't as busy, but everyone in the restaurant witnessed. It was actually an easier and quick cleanup, so not nearly as stressful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:17:58 GMT -5
Uh, I never saw a black person except on tv until I was 15. wow.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 26, 2012 10:22:35 GMT -5
Yup, and I grew up in a liberal (now) touchy feely state.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jun 26, 2012 10:26:25 GMT -5
Uh, I never saw a black person except on tv until I was 15. wow. I think I would have been 9. It was a pretty small area. We didnt' travel much. Since there weren't any black people in my immediate neighborhood or school classrooms I wouldn't have had a way to meet them. I don't think I had met anyone who was Jewish, Indian or Italian either. Then I moved to New Jersey. ;D
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Post by shanendoah on Jun 26, 2012 10:29:13 GMT -5
I grew up in a town where, at the time, I knew of 9 people whose skin wasn't white. Only one of them was an adult. 6 were adopted kids and the other 2 where half caucasian/half Japanese (being the sons of the one adult I knew who wasn't white). 4 were black, 2 were Philipino. Techincally, though, I lived in one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in town, as two of the black kids lived on my street.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jun 26, 2012 11:11:14 GMT -5
Eh, I can see a kid living until 4-9 without seeing a black person, especially in a small town.
I don't recall what the first black person I saw was, but I the first one I remember by name as an aquantance was in second grade.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 26, 2012 11:21:57 GMT -5
Virgil lives in Canada. I think there is only one black person there. That's about half true. In parts of western Canada, I would go so far as to say that black people are "rare". It could be that the girl had seen a black person before, but from the excitement in her voice, we all knew she was looking at something special.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 11:22:07 GMT -5
It was a pretty small area. We didnt' travel much. Since there weren't any black people in my immediate neighborhood or school classrooms I wouldn't have had a way to meet them. I don't think I had met anyone who was Jewish, Indian or Italian either. Except for the Italian part. One of my oldest friends is 1/2 Italian, 1/2 Polish and she grew up across the street.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 11:24:01 GMT -5
whew! I'm glad I moved away from the boondocks!
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 26, 2012 11:54:09 GMT -5
When my youngest was doing her assessment for kindergarten. At a Catholic School no less. Teacher: You know a lot of this stuff! You've been working hard. DD: Yeah. I have. Teacher: Who teaches you? DD points to me Teacher: Oh, your mom does? DD: Yeah. But sometimes she just sits on the couch and drinks beer. The lady was trying really hard not to laugh. I was so embarrassed. At least it wasn't a Baptist school!!!
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 26, 2012 11:57:51 GMT -5
When my son and daughter were about 3 and 4, I used to give them a bath together. I would let my daughter out first and tell her to get her pajamas on once I thought she was old enough to do it herself. Well her room had a full lenth window facing the front of our house, and our house was at the end of a T in the street (cars at the stop sign are looking directly at our house and her window.). One day after her bath I went in and found her naked standing inside the window sill with her body right up against the window, so that drivers at the stop sign were looking right a a naked girl in the window!!! Glad I didn't get arrested for kiddie porn.
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Post by yummy2tummy on Jun 26, 2012 12:00:32 GMT -5
Wow, well my grown son who is now 27, at the age of 4 we were in the store, (supper time and just getting off work) I put cookies in the cart for "after supper" well, he threw a fit, wanting the cookies now.. I was in the check out line.... the clerk said, "awe, I think someone needs a nap" My sweet lil 4 yr old son said "bullshit".. I wanted to die..
I had just picked my son up from My in-laws, and my FIL's favorite line.. Bullshit..
LOL..
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Post by lexxy703 on Jun 26, 2012 12:03:51 GMT -5
Wow, well my grown son who is now 27, at the age of 4 we were in the store, (supper time and just getting off work) I put cookies in the cart for "after supper" well, he threw a fit, wanting the cookies now.. I was in the check out line.... the clerk said, "awe, I think someone needs a nap" My sweet lil 4 yr old son said "bullshit".. I wanted to die.. I had just picked my son up from My in-laws, and my FIL's favorite line.. Bullshit.. LOL.. My niece went through a phase at about that age where she said boo-shit a lot. She used it correctly just as your son did. She learned it from her Daddy.
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Post by hockeygrl on Jun 26, 2012 12:05:44 GMT -5
^^^that is freaking hilarious! I called a driver douchebag rather forcefully yesterday. Here's hoping DS doesn't add that one to his expanding vocabulary!
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Post by yummy2tummy on Jun 26, 2012 12:10:01 GMT -5
Wow, well my grown son who is now 27, at the age of 4 we were in the store, (supper time and just getting off work) I put cookies in the cart for "after supper" well, he threw a fit, wanting the cookies now.. I was in the check out line.... the clerk said, "awe, I think someone needs a nap" My sweet lil 4 yr old son said "bullshit".. I wanted to die.. I had just picked my son up from My in-laws, and my FIL's favorite line.. Bullshit.. LOL.. My niece went through a phase at about that age where she said boo-shit a lot. She used it correctly just as your son did. She learned it from her Daddy. LOL! ;D
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 26, 2012 12:10:03 GMT -5
Jenny- I grew up in southern Minnesota. We had 3 black kids that were adopted by a white family (but none of the kids was in my grade) and two adopted Korean girls. That was the only racial diversity in my graduating class of 274. Now the town in slightly more diverse. My town is also where the MN Vikings do their summer training camps. So any large black man that drives a decent car will automatically be swarmed by kids asking for his autograph- at the gas station, a restaurant, the movies, etc. Awkward for those gentleman that just happen to be passing through the town. I was baby sitting my son and his two cousins and I gave them all a bath together. DS was 4 and his cousins were 2 1/2 and 1. He stood up and proclaimed that he could hold his toy shovel using his penis (small plastic sandbox toy) but that his cousins couldn't because theirs were too small. He proceeded to explain that to everyone he met that weekend. No amount of explaining to him that that was inappropriate would shut him up. He kept telling me he was proud that he could do something they couldn't.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 12:10:20 GMT -5
I have been hyper-vigilant about not swearing in front of the kids. A couple months ago DS came home from school and every other word out of his mouth was "crap" which he learned from his BFF. DH was working late, so during dinner I went though an alphabetical list of all the swear words very clincially (except the F and the see you next tuesday ones) and I told them if I ever hear that they said them at school they would not only be in trouble with the principal but with me too. DH thinks I'm nuts, but they haven't sworn (much) since and now they'll ask me "what was the H swear again" to which I tell them that it was a one-time deal.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 26, 2012 12:11:40 GMT -5
Kids swearing- DS was about 4 when he was sitting in his carseat in my parents car and he asked my dad "what the fuck is the deal with all this damn traffic?" My dad laughed so hard he had to pull over, my mother was not impressed.
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Post by Firebird on Jun 26, 2012 12:19:21 GMT -5
Kids swearing- DS was about 4 when he was sitting in his carseat in my parents car and he asked my dad "what the fuck is the deal with all this damn traffic?" My dad laughed so hard he had to pull over, my mother was not impressed. Karma for The Boy, that one is just priceless.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 12:21:35 GMT -5
LOOVE it, sheila!
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Post by raeoflyte on Jun 26, 2012 12:29:18 GMT -5
Kids swearing- DS was about 4 when he was sitting in his carseat in my parents car and he asked my dad "what the fuck is the deal with all this damn traffic?" My dad laughed so hard he had to pull over, my mother was not impressed.
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Post by lexxy703 on Jun 26, 2012 12:32:03 GMT -5
That is hilarious but unfortunately the laughing makes them keep doing it. So Sheila who did he learn those bad words from?
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Post by Formerly SK on Jun 26, 2012 12:43:11 GMT -5
My DD's kindy teacher emailed me last month with a story. Apparently in class DD announced that whenever her and her brother watch TV, her parents "just KISS and KISS and KISS!!" The teacher told me she responded with, "You must get to watch TV a lot then, huh?" What's even funnier is that when I later asked DD about it, she said she knew it wasn't true but that saying it was funny and would make the class laugh. I'm apparently raising a future Richard Pryor.
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Post by Firebird on Jun 26, 2012 13:00:46 GMT -5
My DD's kindy teacher emailed me last month with a story.
I totally read that as "DD's kinky teacher" which made the story sooooooo much funnier.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 26, 2012 13:08:56 GMT -5
Well, in my defense, I didn't yell CHOCOLATE PEOPLE!!!! But I am also glad I don't live in the boonies anymore although it was a safe place to grow up in.
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