to be a little freaked by a leaflet I read the other day?

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Me and other half went to a music festival at the weekend. Little one was left at grandparents.(not that this has any relevance to the thread!)

We went to one of the little cafe tents for a cuppa and a sit down. Unbeknown to us it was run by a commune. I do not have anything against communes but this is what made me sit up.

While we were waiting for said cuppa, we read the back of one of their leaflets. a quote " if you don't agree with something someone does, you should just turn the other cheek". Little girl, aged 3.

Mmmm, my 3 year old never comes out with sentences like this, anyone else?

what do you think?

No, mine wouldn't either.
Do you believe everything you read?

I expect she's parroting something she's heard someone say

Seriously? Freaked? I mean - I could understand 'freaked' if the kid's head was doing a 360 but some crappy words on the back of a crappy leaflet that were 99% NOT said by that child? Grip anyone?

I suspect it was their way of getting people to join up! we didn't go back again! we went next door for cheaper, nicer coffee and fried crumpets x

Your 3 yo probably doesn't say stuff like that because she doesn't hear it at home. My dd comes away with some phrases, ofteb out of context, and it's just her parrotting back what she hears. Often I hear her acting out whats happens at nursery with her toys, repeating what the staff say to get the children to lunch / story tine etc. It sounds funny when she says it, but she's just copying.what she's heard during the day.

It's just made up shyte. No need to be freaked.

chill, it wasn't made to get you upset love

DS1 at 3 when he first joined play group was asked if he had any news. He said he'd been reading in the newspaper with mummy about the terrorists in Birmingham and thought it was disgusting. I don't read a paper and other than the split second before the tv channel gets changed to cbeebies I didn't tend to watch the tv morning news either. The play group leaders were talking about how unusual DSwas for some time but it wasn't until DS2 and my niece and nephew were older that I relisedjust how different a free thinker can be.

Should we turn the other cheek to Ian Brady? yes because he relishes on the attention

I agree with that, McHappy. But if we'd turned the other cheek in the first place he could have gone on to murder more kids.

this is closer to the real meaning

It doesn't mean that you should allow people to beat you up or murder others.

My 4 year old says 'if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all' all the time because I say it all the time. No big deal, not really sure why it freaked you out tbh.