She’s not more than 10, and every declarative statement ends in an upward lilt.
Not being a parent, it’s always easy to say how “you” would do things. . . But I’d have to believe I would try to speak normally. Leave the Valleyish lingo at the schoolyard.
There was this time?
That I met a girl like that?
And I sewed her mouth shut?
And people thanked me?
----Dude, I HATE that little characteristic.
Oh, and make that “. . . I would try to have her speak normally.”
She’s TEN?
Here is a funny story.
My niece and nephew are visiting and they are both very verbal kids. My niece is just under three but speaks very well. So we are walking down to the neighborhood pizza place and she is talking away and a passing stranger stops to say
Then she added.
So I guess you can be part of the solution and part of the problem.
For a second, I thought that the second quote was your niece’s response and in that brief moment of time I was very impressed with your family.
Are you saying the parent, or the 10-year-old was using the annoying lingo? If it’s the latter, she may have been doing it on purpose to be annoying. Kids will sometimes do things in public that they wouldn’t do in private just to see if they can get away with it. The major influence on a young child’s behavior at that age and beyond is her peer group. I would hope the parent is at least setting an appropriate example. But correcting her and making much of the issue in the office might well have been an exercise in futility. If the parent was talking that way, that’s another issue entirely.
Yes, after all, a girl should learn all necessary social graces by the age of ten. And while we’re at it, why bring her to work? She’s a girl! Trying to show her women in confident professional roles will just raise false hopes. Right?
Or because she feels self-conscious. Jeezus, cut her some slack.