She's 6 and she's quite loud, confident and chatty. Unlike me. My older DD is very reserved and quiet so DD2 is a bit of a mystery to me at times.
She will talk to ANYONE with the same degree of open friendliness as she does her mates, her teachers and her family.
Today we got a bus and it was a long wait on a lonely stretch of road in a rural village. A man came along to wait also.
It was raining and the bus shelter offered the only protection...it was a wooden one...you know with three sides and an open front.
Anyway, this man came inside and began smoking roll ups which I cannot abide the smell of...not to mention there were two children in the shelter.
I decided to ignore this and stood at the edge with the DC so they weren't breathing it in.
DD immediately catches his eye and begins chatting to him and I turn to look and he's just filthy dirty and smells of unwashed person...his clothes were tidy and clean looking but his hands were black and he has dirty nails and as I said he smelled really bad...and he just had the air of someone I didn't want to chat with on a dark night down a bloody lane.
I don't know what to do about this? Should her instinct about who to talk to and who not to talk to be in place by now? She turns 7 in March...or am I being awful and should I celebrate my non-judgemental child? He was "alsright" but I was unnerved by him...you know how you just are by some people? My instincts had sort of kicked in and I didn't want to engage with him but there was DD telling him about her singing lessons.
Because of DD breaking the ice I HAD to!
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ClawHandsIfYouBelieveInFreaks · 21/11/2014 23:31
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