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monkeymamma (746 days ago)
My 3yr old does this all the time. If someone tells him the name of something and then another person comes along with a different name, he corrects them because of what he was told first. He`s not being rude, he`s just going by what he`s been told.
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momzie (746.2 days ago)
I have said this on here before, but as a teacher I correct other people`s kids all day long and have no problem carrying that politely over into my social life. BUT, I do not have much of a problem with a kid correcting me over something like shoes vs. sandals b/c they are learning and exploring their vocabulary. I would probably politely reply, Yes, sandals are a kind of shoe. And Lavendar is a synonym for purple. But if this kid was annoying all the time, I would probably just not hang around her!
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Lilmissesmum- (746.4 days ago)
sounds rude to me, I would have asked her if she owned any manners because a thank you would have been surfice for the conversation not correction. Don`t worry to much about it the child will grow up with the same mentality and then her parents will be in trouble.
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ibaheir2dathrone (746.5 days ago)
I don`t put up with rude behavior. (I don`t care who`s kid it is.)
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RobinG (746.5 days ago)
How old was she? If she was a young child I wouldnt call it rebutting, I`d call it a kid being honest. Kids call things like they are versus what others want to hear so if she was young I`d say she wasnt doing it to intentionally contradict you, if she was young she was correcting your error not meaning to disrepect you, older teen then yeah it was a bit over the top. There is a difference between correcting something genuinely wrong and just being disrepectful. The shoe example is one I`d expect correcting from my kids cause purple and shoe were wrong so its one of those `choose your battles` kinds of things, she was doing what kids do.. Her tone of voice however would be a concern it is was rude. There are funny ways to correcting so it isnt in a rude apporach. My sister corrects all the time as our biggest beef with her isnt WHAT she says, its HOW she says it. In other situations where they are being truly disrespectful I will speak to my child right there and demand they apologize for their rude behavior.
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littlecavalier (746.5 days ago)
I was going to give you a hard time until you gave that example. I`m guessing it`s the same little girl in your other poll right? It sounds like they are raising her to feel entitled. If my son corrected someone in the way you`re referring to I would ask him to appologize. She`s really not going to make friends if that`s the way she responds to everything! I do though believe that children should be allowed to question authority, I`m not a fan of `because I said so.` I never had a voice growing up and I want my son to feel empowered enough to respect authority but not follow blindly. I would never let him be disrespectful but if someone asks something of him I would be offended if he politely questioned them about it. Now if he continued to ask questions just to get out of doing it, that`s a different story. Again, I think there has to be balance, they have to know that adults are in charge/control but I don`t want to raise a robot that just does as he`s told without thinking either.
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