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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our private daycare has kids that are mostly white, some asian and indian. The other day, DD5 made a shocking comment to me that that black boy looks different and scary to her. She also commented the other day it is stinky when she was near a Hispanic adult man. She covered her nose and hid behind me. I think it was probably body odor or oily hair gel something. I corrected her immediately on the side that it was mean/rude to say, and it would make others upset. She asked why and she did not like my answer. According to the data now, our home elementary school is mostly white, more hispanic kids in home middle school, and more black kids in home high school. Our neighborhood is mostly white. Any tips to teach her on this topic? To her at this age, it is not really racial discrimination, and it is just that she does not like some looks or some smell but those traits happen to be related to some race. She is sensitive to smell and she loves those princess on books/tv and they happen to be mostly in lighter color.  She makes stinky comments about some of my cooking as well, and I hope that she does not make any comment if other kids bring their homecooked lunchbox sitting next to her at school one day. [/quote]

In this day and age, you should have been teaching her about color blindness long ago.  She sounds like a mean girl in training.[/quote]

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