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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t worry about it! My daughter who is of mixed Indian and Iranian ethnicity was terrified of old white people until she was about 2 years old! She would cry like crazy whenever approached by them in public.  Tan or brown people didn’t scare her. Go figure! [/quote]

I remember a kid telling my (white) mom that she was very old -- mom was in her 50s. Kids just say the most random stuff and sometimes have no idea what they said means or implies.[/quote]

When I (white woman) was in my early 30's I went to pick my daughter up from elementary school. A kid took one look at me, knew I was there for DD but wasn't exactly her mom, and yelled, "DD! Your .... grandma is here!"[/quote]

Darker-skinned mom to mixed kids who look white and yeah, I got treated like the nanny by other moms when DDs were little and in ES, I got a lot of "are you really her mom?" and "you don't look like her" when I picked up from aftercare. FYI - moms at the playground are incredibly rude to nannies.[/quote]

I'm an olive-skinned white mom to two kids with my very dark-skinned husband from Sudan. The comments my 3 year-old daughter's friends simultaneously shock me and crack me up, regularly. They are so innocent at this age. I think it is wonderful when they can talk about differences and point them out but they are obviously not being racist, just processing what they see in the world.

Recent conversation at the playground after I picked up my daughter from her playgroup:

Me - "Hi Nick!" (to one of her friends, a Black boy in her class)
Nick - "Huh? How do you know my name?"
Me - "I'm Tasha's mommy! I know you from her class."
Nick - "Um, I don't know about that... You're white!"
Me - (Both a little surprised at his confidence and trying not to crack up) "Well, I am her mommy! And her daddy's Black!"
Nick - (looking still unconvinced) "I don't know about that..."
Me just laughing...

And then my daughter sometimes comes home with very detailed stories and my husband and I laugh about them.. It is all innocent. Like, "I was on the slide, and this WHITE BOY came and pushed me!!! And a Black boy was with him too!!" Oh kids. I love them at this age.

We are very open about our wonderful differences and our daughter melts my heart when she makes comments like, "We're all different skin colors, but that's okay!" [/quote]

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