Morgan

He knows none of it is true.

My father has a doctorate, for fuck's sake, and many members of my family are very accomplished in different fields.

But I guess in my husband's mind, anyone from the South who lives on a farm must be the exact same.

It normally doesn't bother me that much.

He's made it clear that he's joking and it's not like he does it all the time.

Well, here's our problem.

Our son is now five and he's becoming quite the little parrot.

Back in March, we went to visit my parents.

For dinner one night, my dad made fried chicken, and I mean very fresh fried chicken, as in killed that afternoon.

My son loves fried chicken, and I thought he'd be excited to try it.

Well, he completely refused and said he wouldn't touch it because it wasn't store-bought.

I told him he was being rude, but chalked it up to kids being weird about stuff sometimes.

Later that night, I sat him down to talk to him about his manners and how Grandpa was hurt that he didn't want to eat dinner, and my son said he didn't care because only hillbillies kill their own food.

That's when I clued in that these weren't exactly his own ideas.

My husband has jokingly said the same thing.

I spoke to my husband about it, and I told him to cut it out, that our son is too young to tell the difference between jokes and truth, and I don't want him thinking that.

Throughout the last few months, there have been a lot of instances like that.

My son asked me how I got into college.

I thought it was a genuine five-year-old curiosity question and launched into an explanation, only to be interrupted with, quote, no, how'd you do it if you're dumb?

Further probing led me to finding out he thought everyone from the South is too dumb to go to college.