I think you can relax, Mark ... I know that stab of fear when a child of yours (or your family) comes out with something that is such anathema to you. It's a real shock. However, if they are not living with those attitudes, it's just a passing thing and sometimes getting too shocked just shows them that they have another trick up their sleeve with which to push your buttons. I can remember being totally horrified and aghast at hearing my son, in a crowded playground, call another little boy who was pestering him a 'Jew-boy'. I nearly melted into an embarrassed puddle on the floor. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where he had learned that, as I would never (woolly-minded liberal that I am) call somebody a 'Jew' - a Jewish person, maybe but not label somebody in that way and certainly never perjoratively. I came to the conclusion that he must have heard that phrase at his rather exclusive, highly expensive private primary school which I had hoped might be a more rarified environment for sponge-like little minds than our overcrowded inner-city local primary. So much for that! In the meantime, 5-year-old Lewis was totally mystified as to why I was incandescent with rage at what he'd said, and I eventually came to the conclusion that he had no idea of the magnitude of his utterance. I think you should presume the same of Brianna. And, in the meantime, make the next storytime 'Little Polar Bear Finds a Friend', in which the little white polar bear finds a little brown friend whose parents have been captured and who needs a family. Little brown bear fears little polar bear's parents might not want her because she's different. Little polar bear's mother replies, "Nonsense - bears are bears!" which is a phrase which has been used many times since in our household in discussions about 'isms'.