Tact...

Three-a needs to learn some tact. Of all the girls, she's embarrassed me the most with her lack of tact. All things considered, iIt hasn't been too bad, but I feel at almost 6 (OMG, she's almost 6... HOW DID THAT HAPPEN???) she should have a better understanding of what is appropriate to say, and what isn't. Her latest embarrassing questions...

Scene: Grocery store line

Three-a: Mom, is that woman Chinese? (pointing to a woman in line a couple of people in front of us.)

Me: I can't tell, she's not looking at us. (bending down and saying it quietly and telling her shhhhh....)

Three-a: (perhaps a notch louder) She has REALLY dark black hair. She's probably Chinese. Or maybe she dyes her hair. It's REALLY BLACK. It has to be one of those things.

Me: (Bending down and hoping the woman was engaged in conversation with the checker).... Um, look, honey, there's chocolate over here....let's pick out some chocolate.

We get back to the car and I explain why she shouldn't do that and if she has questions about people how they should wait until we are alone. We re-iterated these concepts tonight at dinner. I'm hoping she learns quickly.