Hurt by DD6 comment

[Wagamumma]

Playing in the garden with DD6 and DS3 today and asked what they would like to do later in the day; beach or tootle about on their bikes.DD looked a bit down and said she didn't want to do anything.

Left it a bit and asked again and said to her (playfully) 'come on DD, if mummy could do anything to cheer you up, what would it be?' She looked at me and said quietly "you could
kill yourself" I was speechless and she knew she had gone too far and tried to laugh over it.

I'm so upset by this. I have no idea where she has heard this kind of chat from, we don't know anyone who has committed suicide so it's not something we talk about at home, for example.

I lost my Dad 18 months ago and I asked her if she remembered how sad I was to lose a parent and I told her that I would hate that to happen to her so young.

She apologised (kind of) and when DH came home he spoke to her about it and she was all upset and said she didn't mean it 'like that'. I want to talk to her about it as A) it was such a strong reaction to me asking her something and B) want her to understand the seriousness of what she said but without getting into the horror of suicide, if that makes sense.

Any ideas how to broach this? Thank you for reading x

Kids are psychopaths

Kids are psychopaths

this made me laugh out loud

You've already told her off about it and that's enough. She's 6. She doesn't really understand.

My mother would never let me forget that I once said to her "I hope I don't look like you when I grow up." My son was a similar age to your DD when I overheard him saying to his schoolmate "I hate my mum".

It's not nice, but you have to let it go. It doesn't mean that she's some kind of monster. But maybe keep an eye on what she's watching on TV.

Honestly you are overthinking it. If one of mine said that I would stick my bottom lip out and pretend to cry. But I would try v hard not to be genuinely upset. Sorry about your dad. I lost my mum in September. It's shit.