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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I am oversensitive then? Her comments typically are like that, or sometimes more like she's stereotyping. Like she was concerned about my day care being dirty because the woman was Indian (you could eat off her floor). She wanted me to ask her about her cleaning routine. She comments a lot about the "gangs" in my neighborhood which is a typical suburban neighborhood that happens to have a latin population. One of the neighbors has a teenager who hangs out with his friends working on his car in front of the house and they make my mom very nervous. Things like that. Am I overreacting? My DH agrees that a lot of time her comments are innapropriate and my DD is getting to the age where she will be repeating things soon. [/quote]

FWIW, my family is from an Eastern European background--- grew up in ethnic neighborhood in a big city, second generation American-- and sometimes I wish all they would say is that a kind has milk chocolate skin (my kids are bi-racial by the way and I wouldn't find that offensive). Mine are more the living comfortably but angry at the world, FOX news-types who get nervous if they see a few black or Latin kids walking within a few blocks of our home. In some ways, they're getting worse and they try to justify it by saying nice things about the lovely black family they met on vacation.  As others have said, I think old people do get a pass, to a degree, but in the end, you'll need to draw the line if it gets out of hand and your kid starts repeating things. [/quote]

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