The Young and the Restless

Damage Control

So Kylie had a neighbor friend and a friend from the ward over to play. They're in the playroom and I overhear a conversation about coffee. Kylie and her mormon friend are telling the neighbor girl that people who drink coffee live with Satan. What?! I go in there to clear things up and apparently they have been telling the poor little neighbor girl that she is going to go live with Satan because she's not mormon and that her dad is going to live with Satan because he has an earring and pretty much that her family is destined to an eternity in hell because they don't believe what we believe. I was mortified. I tried to do some quick damage control to clear things up but I knew this would not go over well when she told her mom about the crazy mormon neighbors. I wanted to bring it up when she picked her kids up, but she was in a hurry, so I called her later and left a message with the daughter to have her call me back. When she never called me back I was convinced it was because she hated me. That night around 9:30 we get a call. It's the husband. He wants to talk to Jason. Outside. Alone. I was sure Jason was in for a butt kicking and Jason was just mad that somehow he got dragged into the whole mess. Jason did a good job apologizing and trying to convince him that we really don't brain wash our kids. Much to my relief the dad was nice about it. I couldn't sleep that night because I felt so bad and was nervous to talk to the mom in the morning (it also didn't help that I was up all night with false labor...the doc stripped my membranes earlier that day which pretty much felt like he ripped out my uterus with his bare hands. I think he probably still has claw marks from my nails digging into him. I was having contractions 3-5 min. apart for about 3 hrs and was sure it was the real thing. Then they went away. All that stripping for nothing.). I went over this morning to talk to the mom (and to have Kylie apologize) and she was really nice about it but I still feel horrible. I thought I was doing a good job teaching Kylie what was right and wrong, but it's hard for her to understand that it's wrong for her to do something but okay for someone else to do the same thing. I tried to explain that they just have different beliefs but that they are still good people, but she is determined that we need to tell them that it's wrong so that they will know better. What a hard concept to teach to a 6 year old! No wonder people think mormons are weird.