Rude comments from children

**CathyBogart** · 09-09-2003, 11:30 PM

Ouch! You've got me there....I've never had an adult say anything like that...although the guy who is now my best friend thought I was my ex's little brother when he first met me!

**Uabassoon** · 09-09-2003, 11:48 PM

LOL I can beat you once again. One of my best friends is a gay guy and I met him because he was trying to hit on me because he thought I was a boy. Thankfully he noticed after we started talking, it took months before he admitted to me that he first started talking me because he was trying to flirt.

**CathyBogart** · 09-09-2003, 11:51 PM

*Laughs* That's pretty good! I think I'd be flattered....

**wolflady** · 09-09-2003, 11:53 PM

Interesting thread. I have experienced some rude things kids say as well. I do agree kids will be kids, but also parents need to be parents. I do not think it's cute when little kids swear. One of my old high school friends went down a very bad path in her life, and at just about 21, she got knocked up by her 17 yr old boyfriend

She and her little HS dropout boyfriend have the most foul mouths ever, and I just think it's sad that a kid lives in an environment where all he learns is bad words and loss of innocence very early in life. I remember when he was 2, and he was talking about and pointing to his weiner and making nasty comments. At 2 years of age! Now he is just a foul mouthed brat. It's more sad than anything, but what other role models does he have?

My husband's cousin has 2 young sons. I went to a 4th of July party at one of my husband's uncles places where the cousin also was. Both of her kids were royal brats. The younger one was worse than the older one. They went around hitting the adults and saying nasty things. We were outside, so I just stayed away from them. I didn't think they were cute. His cousin even commented "oh, I just don't chase after them any more when they run amok, because it's tiring". Excuse me?
Well, anyway, it started to rain and we all went inside their very small house. I was minding my business sitting on the couch next to my husband, and the littlest brat climbs into my lap and starts poking me in the chest saying "boobie! boobie!" I was speechless. His mother was only a few feet away sitting on the floor and the only thing she did was say "don't do that". I didn't feel it was my place to reprimand her child, but she could have at least come and got him off of me. I was embarassed!

Ugh!

However, innocent mistakes can be cute, especially when it is said in all innocence, like what you did PCB. I hope this doesn't offend you, but maybe you asked that question because in your culture, it is important for woman to be married, is it not? You were just merely wondering why, and that is just cute. I can image your big wondering innocent eyes as you asked that question

LOL That sort of thing doesn't bother me, but foul mouths do...at any age.

**Uabassoon** · 09-09-2003, 11:54 PM

LOL I kind of was. Now that I know Mike he is super picky and I even think the guys he dates are cute.

**popcornbird** · 09-10-2003, 01:22 AM

Originally posted by wolflady

However, innocent mistakes can be cute, especially when it is said in all innocence, like what you did PCB. I hope this doesn't offend you, but maybe you asked that question because in your culture, it is important for woman to be married, is it not? You were just merely wondering why, and that is just cute. I can image your big wondering innocent eyes as you asked that question LOL That sort of thing doesn't bother me, but foul mouths do...at any age.

I honestly think because all my parent's friends, or at least most of them, were 35 or so, with kids my age, so being a little kid, I assumed all 35 year olds were married. I thought it was a package deal of being 35.

Silly, I know, but I don't think culture had anything to do with it. I grew up in the US, so this is the culture I know...pretty much...therefore, I don't think that was the reason. It was just a childish assumption that all 35 year olds were married.

I didn't understand marriage at that time............I just thought there was a mommy and a daddy, and a kid or more, and if it wasn't that way, I would get confused. All my friends' parents were that way, my neighbors were married, or at least I thought so, so I just got confused, when she suddenly told us to call her Miss.

**zanzanfergie** · 09-10-2003, 01:54 AM

When I was three or four I asked my Nanna and Gumpy why they didn't get married (Nanna is my mom's widowed mother, Gumpy is my dad's widowed father). It was awfully embarrassing for my parents. It seemed like a perfectly natural assumption to me at the time though - they could share trips, and only drive one car to visit us.

I also have a vague memory of telling a girl from kinder that "I already have this one" when she gave me a barbie for my fourth birthday. My mom gave me a stern talking to after that one, and I have never ever forgotten it. But like people have said, it was not malicious at all - I just didn't know that you weren't supposed to say stuff like that.

**popcornbird** · 09-10-2003, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by zanzanfergie
When I was three or four I asked my Nanna and Gumpy why they didn't get married (Nanna is my mom's widowed mother, Gumpy is my dad's widowed father). It was awfully embarrassing for my parents. It seemed like a perfectly natural assumption to me at the time though - they could share trips, and only drive one car to visit us.

LOL! Silly Sarah!