you're on a diet!

[Professor]

I was in Target yesterday and there was a little girl, maybe 2 sitting in the front of the cart shopping with her mom. The dialouge went something like this.

Girl: (points to chair) You're on a diet. (points to poptarts) You're on a diet. (points to shampoo bottle) You're on a diet. (points to me) You're on a diet.
Mom: No! No, the lady is not on a diet because she's beautiful.
Girl: Oh. (points to me) You're not on a diet because you're beauuuuutiful. (points to a curling iron) You're not on a diet because you're beauuuutiful.

[Labrocca]

lol....some freaking parents today!

[Alonzo]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this kid should be running the "future anorexics of tomorrow" club.

Cute though.

[Professor]

The mom did apoligize to me.

I don't think it is necessarily a bad body image thing for the 2 year old. She probably got a peice of information and just went with it, most kids do that at her age.

[Professor]

I just remembered this when I was talking about the target girl with my friend. This one I think is tragic.

My friend babysits for her next door neighbor's kid. The little girl is adorable, vocal and just a doll. She's also phobic of fat. When she went trick or treating, her dad pressed her to eat one of her candies and she started crying. Then there was this:

Friend: Do you want a cookie?
Girl: Cookies make you fat.
Friend: But you can have a cookie, see I even had two cookies. Do you think I am fat?
Girl: Yes.

My friend is full figured, big breasts and hips but that's it. She's not fat by a long shot.

This happened a year ago and the girl is now 6, and still like this. I find this much less comic and much more sad.