A few days ago my neighbour who has a 4 years old boy took me to one side and said that he was taking issue with something my 8 year old son had said to his boy. When I asked what could have been the problem, he replied "it would appear that your son has made a racist comment to my son". When pressed further it transpires that my neighbours son (4) was told he was having curry for tea. He replied that he didn't want it because it was '*****n' food and nobody likes *****ns!
I took my son to one side and cunningly questioned him to find out that actually, he was not being racist towards one of our ethnic majorities - but they had simply been playing 'Cowboys and *****ns' earlier that day and my son had said that he wanted to be a Cowboy because nobody liked the *****ns in the game!
Out of the mouths of babes!