Comments on: Kids Say The Darndest Things: When your child is rude

By: Graceandhonor

Graceandhonor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:03:48 +0000

What a lovely story of human connections. And how beautifully it illustrates how those who have suffered such loss still have so much to contribute.

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:25:37 +0000

Once in the grocery store, a man with no legs was in front of us. My 4 yr old says quite loudly, why doesn’t that man have any legs. I was mortified, but when I looked to the man to apologize, he was smiling, so I told my son, I don’t know, why don’t you ask him. My son then said, How come you don’t have legs. The man told my son he was in a war and stepped on a land mine and they got blown up. My two year old at this point says—ooooo did it hurt? The man smiled and said, no I did not feel anything for a long time. My 4 yr old said, Oh and smiled at the man. I thanked him for his understanding. He thanked me for not making a big deal of it, he said he would rather answer a child’s question than have parents hushing and rushing their kids away, making the children feel they had done something bad. I think that man made a huge impact on my children’s ability to accept differences in other people, they saw that while he was different he was still a person and they accepted him. After wards, whenever they saw the man, they always said hello to him and asked how he was.

By: Daniel Post Senning

Daniel Post Senning — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:49:04 +0000

We should all be so gracious.

By: Ruth Peltier

Ruth Peltier — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:21:50 +0000

When my grandson was about that age, I took him to an event at our local college (I was a nontraditional student there) He looked at a friend of mine who is in a wheelchair and has a normal sized head but a child sized body. He asked him…”Are you a puppet?” My friend did not skip a beat. He replied, “No Jonathon, I am a real person, just like you.” He apparently understood that Jonathan was still sorting out “real” from “make believe” and did not mean it as an insult. I will always be grateful for the way he handled it.