A little creeped out

[littletree]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but here goes.
I was substituting at Dd's school last week in a special ed class. A kid, maybe 10/11 yo, from the older group (I was with the younger ones) came in to have his lunch while my group was at recess. After a while he looked at me and said "You're S's mom." I smiled and said yes and how did he know her? He said "She's on my bus. She's a flirt" I said she wasn't, she's just friendly and 5 yo's aren't flirts. He said she was and I changed the subject.
I'm probably making a fuss but it weirded me out. I admit she is a bit of a flirt. I wouldn't agree with the kid though! : I don't like that though and am not sure how to change it. She's always been super frienly and social but my baby's too young to flirt.

ps. After writing "flirt" so many times, it's such a funny word!

[ecoteat]

I wouldn't read too much into it. At 10/11 years old, kids are just starting to figure out how boy/girl relationships can be different from boy/boy or girl/girl friendships. They apply their new views of their peers and how they interact to everyone else, whether it is warranted or not. If your daughter is friendly and outgoing to boys and girls, great! She's only five and whatever she does that this older kid thinks is flirting is surely quite innocent.

[Aura_Kitten]

If it were my dd, I'd take that as a signal I need to begin safe sex education. :

(Before you kill me, let me first elaborate: children in kindergarten have been caught at my kids' elementary school actually having sex.... so it's NOT that far out there these days. )

[RBinTEX]

"Flirt" is not a word I hear my kids use. I bet he heard it from his parents, and doesn't really understand what it means. Or do you think he did?

[littletree]

Aura- !!!!!Ahhhhh!!!!!! I can't even comment. oh sh*t. I'm done.

RB- He may have understood what it meant. I don't hear kids say that either, probably the parents.

[tboroson]

I use the word "flirt" with my kids all the time, so I imagine they would in turn use it with their friends. It would be entirely innocent.

Not to say this kid's use of it necessarily was, but it could well have been.

[mama2mygirl]

I wouldn't think to much of it.

But then I've neven even heard of five-year-old having sex.:

[lauraess]

Originally Posted by Aura_Kitten

If it were my dd, I'd take that as a signal I need to begin safe sex education. :

(Before you kill me, let me first elaborate: children in kindergarten have been caught at my kids' elementary school actually having sex.... so it's NOT that far out there these days. )

Ok, so i've heard tell they are doing it in elementary BUT IN KINDERGARTEN??? Tell me PLease this can not be so???!