6 year old used the word sexy

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Hi my 6 year old daughter came home from school and described a boy in her classes hair as sexy.
I’ve told her this word is not appropriate and I don’t want to hear it again. She told me that others in her class use the word.
AIBU to complain to her teacher and for the teacher to maybe speak to the children?

Or are you all eye rolling me?

As a family we do not use bad language and although the word isn’t a swear word I feel it’s not age appropriate.

@Cam2020

Words evolve over time. I think the word sexy is often used as a fairly innocuous synonym for attractive and often slick (high end cars for example are often referred to as sexy), rather than sexually attractive.

Yet slips back in to sexual harassment when an employee tells an other employee that they are sexy.

Regardless if words change over time they still have their origin - that’s why we don’t use many words that were common place as they are actually offensive.

I remember seeing a photo of a 1 year old baby on facebook. Some one had wrote ‘my sexy little man’ .. grim

Definitely not a word in My six year olds vocabulary, in what context would a child really hear it?

I remember telling my daughter that it was word adults use to describe other adults.

where would they hear it?

Pop songs. Therefore any radio music

A few years ago, my four year old dropped the F bomb in front of my in laws! He'd heard it at school and decided to try it out. We had a little chat about bad words and he didn't say it again. It's weird hearing them use adult language but it's not loaded with meaning for them like it is with us.
Best just to underplay it whilst calmly explaining that it's a grown up word.

I remember our school disco in the early 90s. Must have been 9 years old. The DJ put on 'let's talk about sex' by Salt n' Pepa. The whole room of kids sang along with all our might. None of us knew what the blazes sex was - we just liked the song.

*Yet slips back in to sexual harassment when an employee tells an other employee that they are sexy.

Regardless if words change over time they still have their origin - that’s why we don’t use many words that were common place as they are actually offensive.*

I remember seeing a photo of a 1 year old baby on facebook. Some one had wrote ‘my sexy little man’ .. grim

True. Context is everything though.

An adult describing a child as sexy is just awful, though.

Tbh my 8yr old has only just heard the same word in year 3 at junior school and I have explained loosely what it means. I have to say nothing like that ever came up at the infant school we were at previously for 3 years, not one swear word mentioned either but that’s clearly not the norm for what everyone else said!

I totally agree with you. Not appropriate and I would be fairly horrified.

Those 70s clapping songs were full of it:
“When Susie was a teenager a teenager Susie was and she went
Ooo, ahh I lost my bra, I left my knickers in my boyfriends car”

Very commonly played in my 1970s infant school

It's a bit mean telling OP to lighten up. The child used the word in context by describing a boy as sexy. She might not entirely know what it means but whoever she heard it from certainly does. I've got a Year 7 tutor group in a high school and if they were describing each other as 'sexy' I'd be concerned.

In order to do proper safeguarding I'd find out where the child heard it from; from whom and in what context. These kinds of things are red flags.

@HasaDigaEebowai Oh I'd forgotten about that one!!!
So inappropriate looking back but such fun at the time.
We used to stand in a big circle & chant it, I was probably about 6!