AIBU to feel that my feelings have been hurt by a 4 year old!

[ElleBelly]

At school pick up today I overheard a little boy in Dd's foundation class telling his mum "I don't like that one with the short hair" and pointing at me. She went very red and told him to sssh and I looked away as I was embarrassed too. I know kids say stuff, but I feel a bit hurt, his mum is friendly enough to smile and say hi to, and I smile at him if we pass as I'm dropping DD off,but I've never even spoken to him, so why doesn't he like me? Do I look horrible and scary? Am I ridiculous to feel hurt by a 4 year old?! (Obviously yes, but sleep deprivation is making me a bit sensitive!)

Don't give it another thought, OP. Kids of that age take against someone because they don't like the colour of their jacket, or because someone else entirely has just refused to buy them a packet of crisps!

My daughter did this when she was small about a parent at play group. Turned out that it was because the woman wore a lot of brown!

Children are strange :)

Ds told me years afterwards that the reason he never spoke much at the childminder's was that he was convinced that she was actually a witch. Not a turn of phrase, the real thing. At least he was polite and never spoke out, but it must have been quite unpleasant spending your days with somebody you thought might turn you into a frog if you put a toe out of line.

To be fair to the mum in this case, the OP said she did shush her son. Which seem a more tactful way of pulling him up than going into long explanations of how "you mustn't say that dear even if you think somebody looks scary".

I can always count on my two to point out a spot on someone's face or ask a bald man where his hair is. They've also been known to point out weight issues as well. No matter how many times I explain that it is rude etc etc, it still occasionally slips out. I remember my eldest asking a friend of mine "are you having a baby?" When she replied in the negative, child 1 carelessly said "looks like you are!". Cue mortification...