Does anyone else have a child with no filter whatsoever?

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 2023-12-23T17:27:37+00:00

DD2. 5yo. Voice like a foghorn, turned up. Today in queue at farm shop meat counter: "Mummy, is that chicken?" Me, absently: "no, duck." DD, with absolute fascination, at 10 million decibels: "oooh a duck! They've killed a BABY DUCK! I can see its legs! A DEAD DUCK!!" And so forth until I sent her off to look at the chocolate coins display. Fml... is anyone else's child like this????

Sirzy · 23/12/2023 17:30

Two that stand out from ds when he was young are -

trip to the Beatrix potter experience in Bowness, saw the pigs in the display and said loudly “oh look, Sausages”

Sat waiting to go into a clinic appointment at hospital and a man wheeled past on a bed “is he dead Mummy? If not he will be soon”

he was about 4/5 for both of them. He is autistic so still has his moments at 14 but generally is a lot better now!

CyberCritical · 23/12/2023 17:36

DD when she was about 4 and hadn't yet developed a quiet whisper so it came out as loud as normal speaking

mummy look ninjas!! (2 women in burkas in the supermarket)
mummy why is his head on upside down? (Bald man with a full beard on the bus)

WeightoftheWorld · 23/12/2023 17:36

That sounds like perfectly standard behaviour for a 5yo tbh! I thought this thread was going to be about a much older child who had said something potentially offensive!

Christmasconcerts · 23/12/2023 17:38

CyberCritical · 23/12/2023 17:36

DD when she was about 4 and hadn't yet developed a quiet whisper so it came out as loud as normal speaking

mummy look ninjas!! (2 women in burkas in the supermarket)
mummy why is his head on upside down? (Bald man with a full beard on the bus)

I think this is why it’s generally a good idea to introduce the concepts of different cultures from young. I know it can be difficult but CBeebies is very diverse and there are books and so on. I do think four is borderline for that sort of comment to be honest.

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 23/12/2023 17:38

Yes, I've also had "you're 44, aren't you Mummy - are you nearly dead?" loudly in pool changing rooms, and "ELF!!!" bellowed at perfectly normal and normally dressed man when she was about 3.

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CyberCritical · 23/12/2023 17:40

@Christmasconcerts not really, we live in a very diverse area and she was at nursery from 9 months with kids and carers of every ethnicity, culture, language etc going. She had just discovered a kids show about ninjas and was obsessed, so saw something that reminded her of that and the words popped out.

NancyPickford · 23/12/2023 18:01

Many, many years ago I was standing in a queue at a bus stop, which was outside a clothes shop, maybe Etam, Richards Shops, something like that. A wee girl and her mother were in front of me and the girl was fascinated as the window dressers were changing a mannequin in the shop window. When the mannequin was 'naked' the little girl turned to her mother and bellowed at the top of her voice: "Mummy! Mummy! Why has that lady got no fur like you have?" Cue the mother desperately trying to shush her and distract her, to no avail. "But mummy! You have fur! Why does that lady not have fur!"

penjil · 23/12/2023 18:21

Christmasconcerts · 23/12/2023 17:38

I think this is why it’s generally a good idea to introduce the concepts of different cultures from young. I know it can be difficult but CBeebies is very diverse and there are books and so on. I do think four is borderline for that sort of comment to be honest.

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Mariannas · 23/12/2023 18:23

whilst in a public loo with DD, age 4 at the time, said very loudly “mummy, why is your front bottom so hairy”?

Combusting · 23/12/2023 18:23

DD3 has recently said “Mummum look what a kind old lady!” At the pool showers. Said woman was about 22 ish.

DS8, then 4 years old “Mummum look - a man!”. Said man was in fact a woman.

WhichIsItWendy · 23/12/2023 18:25

NancyPickford · 23/12/2023 18:01

Many, many years ago I was standing in a queue at a bus stop, which was outside a clothes shop, maybe Etam, Richards Shops, something like that. A wee girl and her mother were in front of me and the girl was fascinated as the window dressers were changing a mannequin in the shop window. When the mannequin was 'naked' the little girl turned to her mother and bellowed at the top of her voice: "Mummy! Mummy! Why has that lady got no fur like you have?" Cue the mother desperately trying to shush her and distract her, to no avail. "But mummy! You have fur! Why does that lady not have fur!"

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WhichIsItWendy · 23/12/2023 18:28

My 5 year old wouldn't stop asking, in his loudest voice if the little girl next to us at the hospital was a boy. "Is that a boy, mummy?", "no, a little girl". "he looks like a boy", "she has short hair but she's a girl". "No, it's a boy mummy". Her mum didnt say anything but I wanted the ground to swallow us up - just accept it's a girl, will you!