2 year old DD using 'chocolate' to describe black people

[ChickenLidl]

Please help! She's our third, never had this with the other two. She goes to nursery with mixed race kids, and has (I thought) been exposed to a wide variety of people with different skin/hair colours since she was born.

It's mortifying, and I don't know what to do for the best, distraction and ignoring her don't work, she just gets more persistent. I think she's too young to explain why it's not a good thing to be saying.

I don't know what to do, other than hide in the house and never leave

Just correct her and say do you mean the little boy/girl with darker skin than yours? Keep it short and simple.

She's probably heard it from another toddler. How embarrassing. DIL used to call raisins "black boys". I remember wanting to disappear when DS about three once announced "want black boys" at the supermarket as I unloaded the trolley. Yep, lovely black family right behind us .

Tempting to buy her lots of milky bars though.

FIL!

Hmmm at least she isn't comparing 'brown people ' to poo'. My daughter has been told you are the colour of poo and she was devastated. Just keep reiterating to your child that a brown/ black person is beautiful...

My daughter is 2, after a trip to soft play where she played with 2 kids that were around 4 she took to calling me a fat nick (dick she meant), the first time I let it slide out of shock really but when she shouted it at me the next time, I told her in my mum voice, No! You do not say that! Calling mummy a fat nick is naughty, it upsets mummy!
She's not said it since. Explain to your dd that she can't say chocolate because it will upset people / the person she's referring to, and tell her to say mixed race / black etc instead. She might surprise you.

I feel I ought to clarify slightly here, but then I get all worried that I'll say the wrong thing and cause even more offence!

She has never commented on the mixed race kids at nursery, just as it should be, doesn't seem to think they are any different than her (quite right).

But today we had a freezer delivered by a black man and she just came straight out with it "that man chocolate" . I think (hope, pray) he was out of ear shot when she said it and I just wanted her to stf up. I thought trying to correct her there and then may have drawn his attention to it. Did the whole British thing of pretending she hadn't said it, and then quickly talking over her every time I though she was about to repeat it, but what if he did hear? Oh fuck.

I just don't understand it, and am socially awkward enough without this to contend with. Fuckity fuck.

When I was a baby our home town wasn't very ethnically diverse, my dad always says when I saw my first black man I pointed and shouted "look daddy! A chocolate man" he always says hoe mortified he was.
Don't worry too much, it's done now, but if she says it again you could always correct her

I think disagreeing is likely to lead to a stand off! Can you say, yes people have different coloured skin, look my skin is pink and yours is pale pink and later just do the 'it's not nice to say what colour people are because it's a bit rude'

It's so innocent I would like to think most people would realise that and not be offended. That said, she does need to be corrected.