Saturday, June 27, 2009

My Kids are Politically Incorrect


We passed a group of people in their military uniforms and my boys were so excited to see "army men"!!! This was just like those little green plastic fighting army men, but in REAL LIFE. They were gasping and pointing, and their voices hummed in excitement. But Titus made a discovery that perplexed them all:

One of the real life army men was a GIRL! What? None of their green plastic army men toys were girls. They sat silent for a moment then they began to work out the situation among themselves. Dakotah confidently and firmly gave his answer, "well brothers, she isn't an army men, she just cooks all their food for them!" Titus quickly retorted in an equally confident voice, as he rolled his eyes at Kotah, "No, Dakotah! She is there to clean and pack all their stuff." Skyler still wondered aloud, "then I wonder why she was dressed like an army man?". They all seem satisfied at this point with the conversation and we drove on down the road. I realized as we made our way home that my children have definitely NOT been groomed and trained to be politcally correct.

LITTLE BONUS:
The following night Chris and I were discussing Michael Jackson's untimely death at the dinner table. The boys wondered what we were talking about. I explained that MJ pioneered a lot of music and the music video, saying that he was the "King of Pop". Kotah replied, "you mean he made up all the songs like Jesus Loves Me and all that stuff?" And Skyler responded to Kotah with a bit of disdain, "No Kotah! He is in charge of the drink Coke, you know...like the king of Coke and all soda pop!".

5 comments:

Molly Green said...

What a beautiful family you have! Thank you for stopping by Econobusters and leaving a comment about my iced cubes with mint leaves.

I really love the layout of your blog. It looks very homey and peaceful.

sarahgrace said...

My boys have been really into army men lately, and I imagine a similar conversation would have went down had they seen the army woman as well. Hee hee.

Abby Killam said...

oh my.... I hope you set them straight on the "cleaning and cooking army lady"

Iva Messy said...

your kids have THE MOST amazing names!! WOW!! I love it!!

<3,
Iva

Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom said...

hehehe oh kids have priceless perspective on life. ;P

and yeah, love your kids' names!