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[quote=Anonymous]Hi op, this happened to us right around the same age and it turned out it wasn’t our home daycare provider. I finally overheard my older sons friend who lived a few doors down say it to my younger son and realized that is where he heard it. I told the neighbor to cut it out and then heard him do it again another week and gave him a pretty stern this must stop discussion.

For our son - it passed. The less big deal we made out of it the less he said it. So I would say oh sweetie no one is a bad or good we’re all just doing our best. Because getting him away from the dichotomy (if I’m not bad I’m good, if I’m not being “good” then I must be bad) helped. It took time but we kept just saying we don’t say bad boy or good boy in our house. You’re just M and we love you. If he made a mistake and said it we would sing the Daniel tiger song - it’s ok to make a mistake try to fix it and learn something new. Both my kids have liked that. Anyway I’m sure someone will give me flack for these responses because dcum but that’s what worked for us![/quote]

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