Sometimes a bird is just a bird.

Yesterday, we went to our local Y and left our daughter in the daycare there while we worked out. As we were picking her up, she mentioned having a boo-boo, and that she wanted a bandaid for it.As we left, we ran into some family friends. We were talking, and their five year old son told our four year old daughter that he wanted to take a picture with his parent's phone. She smiled and stuck up her middle finger at him.Hoo boy.Now, about a week ago we heard her say "Oh shit" quietly in her room, and we had a nice talk about using appropriate language, etc. My wife is convinced that she picked it up from one of the kids at the daycare or her Montessori, but given that my otherwise dainty and kindspoken wife will swear a blue streak as soon as our daughter is in bed (and sometimes not yet asleep) if something rubs her the wrong way, I'm not 100% certain she's right. Not that this matters for this story, but I wanted to pad out this paragraph. Long story short, we were already on DefCon 2 for further inappropriate behaviors already.So here comes the big lecture, the talk about just because other kids do something doesn't mean you have to do something as well, she starts to repeat the gesture, and I'm shutting it down, everybody is laughing about it, etc. We get her in the car, and then there's another lecture from mom, who really doesn't like it, but our daughter holds up really well.We get home, and I ask our daughter about her boo-boo after getting out the bandaids.She extends her middle finger, which has a very tiny boo-boo on it.I ask her, "Did you want your friend to take a picture of your boo-boo?"She nodded yes./facepalmTLDR: Made a big deal out of an innocent presentation of the extended middle finger. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2RtkV0A