Me 'mummy doesn't work' ,dd2 'of course you don't ,you're not a man'.

[Waltonswatcher]

AIBU for laughing at this statement and should I take back the Dyson I've bought her for Christmas ?

sorry to completely ignore thread but Walton DD2 normally means your 2nd eldest daughter, not that she is 2.
DD15 - your 15th daughter? clearly not but it's confusing.

just saying.

Yes Zing I do exactly that! Sorry. Dd1 is 15. Ds is 12 . Dd2 is 2!!
Someone asked why I laughed . I laughed because the world according to children is funny .
I try to monitor my children's views, as I think most parents do . Surely though we are living in an age of total idiocy concerning pcness ?
Someone else asked if I felt I had to justify my choice to sahp . No. Not at all.

when i was about 5 i firmly believed sisters married their brothers

hahaha the replies to this thread are hilarious.

When dd1 was 2 she thought that mummies head girl babies and daddies had boys . It's just their own experience being 'normal'

I think it's funny too!

My husband is a diplomat and we were on a posting abroad. I had had 3 babies in 3 years, and the youngest was 4 months at the time, so was very much just being mum at that stage. We went to a lunch at DH's boss' house and his 13 year old daughter (very lovely and polite) was sitting next to me asked my DH, sitting across from me, "is Boobz just a diplomat's wife like my mummy?"

To say I was aghast was putting it lightly. That they still call partners who travel with their other halves "trailing spouses" in the FCO is awful.

Anyway, went back to work less than a year later and now the main breadwinner (not that it's a competition), but that comment did feel like a knife at the time (which is obviously ridiculous given my sense of self worth shouldn't have been measured against a 13 year old's yardstick...)

My two year old niece thought that Mums lived in houses and Dads lived in flats. She was baffled that her friends dad lived in the house with them. It's not sad. They're just two. I thought my dad actually made pennies. With a hammer and everything.

I suppose you could just explain that women who stay at home raising children are actually working, since caring for children is work? Or is it only work if you're paying someone else to do it?

^^This

Op when I was little I thought everyone had my surname, and everyone's dad was black and shouty(like mine), and everyone's mum was white and hilarious. It didn't compute when I saw other people's family's wit a different set up. At that age you just take your immediate surroundings to be a representation of the world at large. At least I did!

I guess my problem with finding it funny is that there are people out there who think that mummies shouldn't work and daddies should go out to earn the money and do nothing else. So it's not a particularly funny thing to hear from a 2 year old. Not sad, just something that needs to be talked about.

I found it funny when dd thought that DH went on holidays for his job, because he travels a lot. And all sorts of other toddler logic is funny, but not comments that would be sexist coming from an adult. Would you laugh if your toddler innocently came out with a comment that could be construed as racist? Again, not horrifying or sad, but something that needs correcting.

To clarify, I'm not being professionally offended, I'm not aghast at you laughing. I'm just exploring why I didn't find it funny.

You need to sit her down immediately and explain how the terrible thing she said was not funny at all. Or maybe the naughty step?

Absolutely take back the Dyson and all other Christmas presents immediately. She must learn.

I do loathe the term "professionally offended"
It's just a put down.

My DD1 said similar when she was 2.

I stayed at home and was a CM when she was small. We went to lots of toddler groups where the carers of children were mainly female.

We were playing in the garden when DD threw a teddy in the air. It went too high and went over the fence into next door's garden. DD cried and said "can we go and ask X for it back?" I told her that she would have to wait as X was at work. DD looked and said "work? But she's a woman!"

She's 7 now and understands perfectly that women work. I don't know where she thought the women, who dropped their children off at our house to be minded, we're going though!

DS and I were driving back from somewhere when he was about 10. I commented I had some ironing to do which he replied 'of course you do your a girl''.

He learned to iron his own school shirt that evening.

What a weird thread!

1. You never said she was two.

1. You posted in AIBU.

I think someone is trying to stir a bit!

Our dd tells me when dh is gone (to work) when she gets up that he is asleep in bed. They're 2, it's funny sometimes to hear how they perceive the world.

OP said their DD was two in their second post.

Thanks Sparkling .
Walter- if I was stirring its a bit of lame stir .
It just made me giggle and I shared !
Thanks to all the replies - I do like the frankness of AIBU .
I'll update the thread in twenty years when hopefully dd2 has broadened her horizons .

Yeah not funny.

Absolutely no giggling Waltons Have you arranged a suitable punishment for her yet?

It made me giggle. Some posters are waaaay too serious. Child is two years old FGS.

I remember my friends two year old accidentally catching her grandfather getting out the shower and she seen his private bits. Two year old told everybody that grandad had a 'mouse' and it was 'DIS-GUS-TIN'

So why AIBU?

when ds was about 3 he told me when he grew up he was going to work with daddy bec that's where boys work and dd would come to work with me bec that's where girls work. i laughed. i also took him to the trading floor when it's opened up at xmas and showed him it's not a gender specific office.

My 2 year old neice would like to marry her sister!

I didn't laugh, oh no! I was in fact horrified by her incestuous tendencies and firmly corrected her immediately... Now do you realise how ridiculous you all sound?? A 2 year old is just an older baby who talks, they say what they see- get over it.