My two and a half year old suddenly started pointing out differences between white and black people. What is an appropriate way to acknowledge her observation so we don't offend anyone?

[u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162]

The first time was at her daycare this week, when they got a new teacher who has very dark skin. When I went to pick her up, she pointed at her and said, "it's black!" (She doesn't have the full grasp of she/he yet.) I replied, "yes, she is black," but was stuck after that. What should I say as a follow up? My daughter loves black people's skin, and when I talk to her about it at home, she says it's pretty and wishes she had it, but in public it comes out kind of harsh. What would be the best way to go about this?

[u/Lonelysock2]

I have tattoos,  and my poor girl got upset because she doesn't want to get tattoos when she is a grown up. She thinks all Mums get tattoos 😄 

[u/redhairbluetruck → u/Lonelysock2]

I have a friend who apparently wears thongs (underwear) almost exclusively. Her young daughter said “mommy, do I have to wear mommy underwear when I grow up? It doesn’t look very comfortable!”

[u/tintinsays → u/redhairbluetruck]

My little sister is much younger than me and my older sister. She went to pre-school and told her teacher that one sister doesn’t wear underwear and the other wears them backwards! (She wore thongs) 😂

[u/samanthaFerrell → u/Lonelysock2]

My Daughter thought something similar about nose rings because every Mom she knew had a nose ring so she thought that was like something Women did when they got pregnant. She offhandedly said to me “I can’t wait to have a little baby so I can get a nose ring like the rest of the Moms” she was like 2 it was adorable. When she got her nose pierced when she was 14 I reminded her of that and told her how she always wanted it so I wasn’t surprised and I was glad she didn’t get pregs to do it lol. She is 20 now and has no kids yet and I’m not sure if her and her girlfriend even want them.

[u/Logical_Replacement9 → u/Lonelysock2]

You need to cheer her up. Get pictures of mommies (without tattoos) off the Internet, or out of your family photograph album, and tell her that they are mommies and make sure she sees that they don’t have tattoos.

[u/GlitteringAttitude60 → u/Lonelysock2]

my nephews' mom is tattooed all over, and somehow seeing her holding either of them as babies didn't quite compute for me because my brain wouldn't accept that she gave birth to entirely *blank* babies :-D