Tell It Like It Is: Kids’ Edition

(My sister has just had a baby, and also has a twenty-month-old daughter who is quite advanced with her speaking skills. Ever since she started walking, she also started running. No matter what my sister does, she cannot stop her from taking off as soon as they are out in public. After a scary chase through a car park, my sister resorts to using a harness and lead. They are walking along a busy road one day when a woman takes offence.)

Woman: “How disgusting; you are treating that child like a dog. Get that horrible thing off her right now.”

(My sister is not the type of person who would take this; she’s just about to tell the woman to mind her own business when her daughter beats her to it and cuts the woman off mid-sentence.)

Daughter: “NO, SHE CAN’T, YOU SILLY LADY! I ALWAYS RUN AWAY AND MIGHT GET KILLED BY A CAR, AND MUMMY CAN’T RUN WITH A BABY!”