Feb
04
Green Eyes!
Filed Under (Dealing with Difficult Questions, Raising the Child) by Footyman on 04-02-2010
Recently I was explaining to my 4-year-old son what color blind means. I told him people who are color blind cannot identify certain colors correctly. That was it, and so I thought he understood it very well.
Then one day, when we were walking down a shopping street in sunny Singapore, a Caucasian boy with a pair of beautiful green eyes walked past us. The next moment was the killer.
Never in my wildest dream could I have seen this coming…. my son screamed out, “Papa, that boy is color blind!”
I did not know where to hide my face.
PS: By the way, do you know that while color blindness may be seen as a disability, some studies have shown that certain of these individuals could actually penetrate color camouflages better 
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ROFL, send that to reader’s digest:)
you’re so blessed to have him
your story was too funny. Gave me a good giggle : )
Thanks both, I sure hope there’s more funny stories to bless you all with, only less embarrassing ones I hope
LOL!! Don’t worry footyman…there will be many more blessings of your kids embarrasing you. They will be and are treasures now. Thanks for sharing them.
Also, thanks for visiting GO! Smell the Coffee. Please come back. Right now, it is kind of a stagnant mode as the “owner” has had some family emergencies. And somehow, inadvertently, I’ve been writing 98% of the posts along with my two blogs of my own. Shhh, I cheat and use some posts on all the blogs. LOL
Hi CC, thanks for visiting. I definitely will visit GO! Smell the Coffee again, since I enjoyed reading the posts there regardless of how many times they were posted!