Kids Say the Darnedest Things

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This funny little article comes from My Park Magazine:


18 December 2007- Stella McCartney didn't know her father was a Beatle when she was a child.

Sir Paul McCartney - who raised his children, Mary, 38, Stella, 36, and James, 30, and stepdaughter Heather, 44, with late wife Linda on a remote Scottish farm - has revealed he never told his kids he was a world famous musician.

He said: "There was this one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me 'Dad, you're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' and I said, 'Yes darling, but I'm daddy really.' "

The 65-year-old musician also revealed all his children - including four-year-old Beatrice from his failed marriage to Heather Mills - performed a version of The Beatles classic 'When I'm 64' when he reached the landmark age last year.

He said: "I planned to try and ignore turning 64, but on the morning of my birthday my kids did a version for me. I even had the baby doing it! It was great."

[mi]

Yeah, it's funny - he also said that Beatrice sees pictures of him as a Beatle and says "that's daddy when he was different"...
It's fascinating, the way children express these things - they understand but it takes time till they learn to put it right. My 1 year old nephew's first word was "daddy" and he calls everyone daddy by now (all the men, that is...). It's so funny, my dad keeps trying to correct him - "No I'm not daddy, I'm grand-dad" (in Hebrew it's almost the same word, you see, so it's kind of confusing...), but when asked "Where's daddy" and "Where's grand-dad" he points at the right directions. I was shocked the other day to find out that he actually knows my name - he was asked "Where is Efrat" and he actually pointed at my direction. I can only imagine how confusing it must be for children of celebrities, to grasp that their "daddy" and that famous person is actually the same person.
I used to babysit a lot, you see, so I have plently of examples. A 3 year old boy I baby sat actually told my once - Hey, Efrat, You're mummy..." I just thought   - "Oh god, thank goodness he mother isn't here...". There was a 2 year old boy I used to babysit, and his mother told me once that everytime some else babysits for him - even from his family - and they ask him "who looked after you today" he says "Efrat"... "Efrat" was just a different name for a babysitter, you see... yeah, it's a fascinating issue, not doubt...