Okaaaay

[nekosensei]

My six year old nephew, who is somewhat over-sensitive, asked my mother-in-law if his mother's knee would be better in a hundred years. My mother-in-law said that his mother would be dead in a hundred years so it didn't matter. Bwa? Anyhow, the poor kid started crying and had to be calmed down.

Yeah...not the best thing to say to a little kid...

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[misswitch.livejournal.com]

Who says those sorts of things to a child?

[doomsey.livejournal.com]

My mother.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

My mother-in-law actually. I don't think she meant it to be mean, she was just being her usual scatter-brained self. She's pretty dopey most of the time, partly because she's on a drug called Topamax, which we often refer to as Dopamax. On the other hand, my husband claims that she was dopey long before she started taking the Dopamax. She admitted after the fact that that was a pretty bone-headed thing to say, and that she didn't know what she was thinking at the time.

Later, I jokingly told her that, while she was at it, she should have told him that it really didn't matter anyway because he'd be dead in a hundred years too...just to complete the trauma. I'm kind of evil like that though.

[kyadoshi.livejournal.com]

oh wow.

Yeah, you have to kind of put yourself in a child's shoes before you speak with them... to kind of tailor responses to those kinds of questions.

[scrungew00t.livejournal.com]

Well... I don't know how else she could have answered it. A simple yes/no answer tends to not work with kids either.

[ceitnicangus.livejournal.com]

Poor kid, scatterbrained or not, pretty cruel thing to say...

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Well...she could have told him that her knee wouldn't be a problem for her in a hundred years. That way, she wouldn't scare the kid, yet she wouldn't be lying either. Telling any little kid, especially an over-sensitive one, that his mother is going to die, isn't the brightest thing to do. If possible, you should wait until their a little bit older.