[mommyto2guatboys]

I was wondering when some of your children started noticing the color of people's skin? My son is 3.5 and just in the last couple of weeks he has started to notice other people's skin colors. One day when we were out at a store he told the clerk that his brother was the brown one. Now on that note, both boys are from Guatemala, but youngest skin color is very dark, and my oldest is very light. I know he is just pointing out the obviouse, but it is embarrasing. Just today he went with my friend to her house, and my friends boyfriend is African American and he ran around the house and asked her where the brown guy was. She called me laughing and had to tell me this because I had told her a couple of weeks ago what he had said about his brother being brown. I guess I am just wondering if this is normal? and I would love some help with good things to say to him about this. I have talked to him now alot about it is okay to be different, etc and read books, but I don't know what to say to him right at the moment in public because I am usually so shocked! Any help with thigns to say would be great!

thanks,
Magen