Fat People

Children certainly can over generalize. Christmas eve I was working on a craft with Mackenzie and having found my voice after three weeks with a cough, I was singing snippets of Christmas songs and driving Kenzie nuts. Out of the blue, as only Kenzie can do, she asked me, "Mom, why is it that fat people can sing?" Of course I had to ask what she meant by that, "because you can sing so well." I wasn't sure if I should be insulted or not. If I accepted the compliment as truth, I would also have to accept her unintended insult as the truth I know it to be. It's an odd world where it is far easier to accept insults (or even constructive criticism) as truth rather than to accept the compliments as equal truth and not shrug them off. However, out of the mouth of babes, she was just calling a spade a spade and saying it like it is.