Dealing with child's offensive comments

[johnd2]

Hi all, firstly sorry to anyone upset by my previous post which contained direct quotes which were not inclusive. I hope this post is more family friendly.

The question is how would people deal with observations from their child which would offend. It happened this morning at parkrun, someone was running past and my son (reception age) was laughing and saying "I thought he was xxxxxxx" based on his appearance. I shot back straight away with "You can't say that it's rude" and obviously the person had run past by then.

I know it wasn't said with any intent at all to the other person, I'm sure my son did think that and was sharing his real experience, and also he has not developed a strong sense of empathy at that age.

So the main thing is how would people deal in an age appropriate way with this both in the moment and also any ways to deal with it afterwards i.e. educating him to make better choices in future?

Thanks in advance as all insights are appreciated!

So, are we talking about a child saying ‘That man runs like Daddy Pig!’ and you’re worried that the man is Jewish or Muslim and will be offended to be compared to a pig?

No, apparently a black man ran past and the child laughed “I thought that was a monkey”.
Can you see why it was deleted?
God knows why op’s back for another go round.

This is the most sensible course of action, OP.