After Cashier Asks 2-Year-Old Girl If She Wants Doll That Looks ‘More Like Her,’ Toddler Brilliantly Shuts Her Down
Sophia Benner, from South Carolina, is two years old. When she grows up she wants to be a doctor. So when her mom, Brandi, recently took her shopping at Target for a potty graduation gift, it came as no surprise that Sophia chose a doctor doll.
What DID come as a surprise however was the cashier’s reaction to the doll she picked out. Why? Because the doll was black, something that Brandi and her daughter hadn’t thought much about until the cashier said to Sophia, “Are you sure this is the doll you want, honey?” When the little girl said yes, the cashier continued by saying “But she doesn’t look like you. We have lots of other dolls that look more like you.” Before Brandi could intervene however, Sophia shut down the cashier with the best response ever.
See the full conversation below, which Brandi posted on Instagram recently. It’s since been shared on Facebook, where it’s been liked by more than 450k people and shared over 180k times. Sophia might only be a toddler, but she’s clearly smarter than certain adults out there…
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2-year-old Sophia Benner from South Carolina recently went shopping with her mom, Brandi
When a cashier questioned her choice of doll, Sophia shut her down with the best response ever
Other people soon responded with their own stories:
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My son started 1st grade & began begging me to have his new best friend over. "Please mom! You will LOVE Stephon! He's just like me! We like the same stuff! We have Mario backpacks & love Nintendo and we love the old games best! Please mom! Can I have Stephon over?" It was endless. I told him that when I had a weekend off we could invite his friend over. Endless stories of how Braden (my son) and Stephon were "just like brothers". I finally had a weekend off & let the boys make plans. I spoke a bit with Stephon's mom, gave her directions to our home. When Stephon jumped out of the car with the same backpack as my kid; Braden proudly proclaimed , once again, loud and proud; "SEE MOM! Twins! We have the same bookbag and everything!" Stephon smiled so big & echoed "SEE MOM!" Stephon's chocolate complexion, black fade and coffee colored eyes. My son's blue eyes and floppy blonde hair in contrast, looking up at us (moms) with huge smiles. The boys 7 then, 13 now. Still brothers. <3
Good for you..You are the best mom ever..Children need to know it's OK to have friends that they like..Being there for them is the best thing you have done !
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My first doll (in 1988, Hungary) was an AFRICAN little girl. The FIRST! This is wonderful in a country which was a year before the end of communism!
I remember that one of my first doll was a Russian one, in traditional dress <3 and I also had a lot of dark-skinned dolls, back there in 2000, in Poland, when I was a little girl.
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When I turned 12, I was offered the gift of a doll by some family member, one brown skinned or one pale skinned doll. I had never seen a brown skinned one and choose that one because it looked beautiful. Actually I had never met any African people or any people from distant lands. My parents were horrified by this and sent me to a psychologist as thought something had to be abnormal with me. I went through 6 months of why brown, why did I think it was pretty. I am now 72 years old and I still have my doll as well as several more of all types, have been a wet nurse to a Kenyan baby why back in 1972 when living in Finland and having met a Kenyan woman in hospital and she didn't have milk and had to return to Moscow as a diplomat and left her baby with me for 6 months, I became his Godmother, I could write a book on comments feeding my red haired son and my godson with his black hair, some cruel, others naive.
My son started 1st grade & began begging me to have his new best friend over. "Please mom! You will LOVE Stephon! He's just like me! We like the same stuff! We have Mario backpacks & love Nintendo and we love the old games best! Please mom! Can I have Stephon over?" It was endless. I told him that when I had a weekend off we could invite his friend over. Endless stories of how Braden (my son) and Stephon were "just like brothers". I finally had a weekend off & let the boys make plans. I spoke a bit with Stephon's mom, gave her directions to our home. When Stephon jumped out of the car with the same backpack as my kid; Braden proudly proclaimed , once again, loud and proud; "SEE MOM! Twins! We have the same bookbag and everything!" Stephon smiled so big & echoed "SEE MOM!" Stephon's chocolate complexion, black fade and coffee colored eyes. My son's blue eyes and floppy blonde hair in contrast, looking up at us (moms) with huge smiles. The boys 7 then, 13 now. Still brothers. <3
Good for you..You are the best mom ever..Children need to know it's OK to have friends that they like..Being there for them is the best thing you have done !
Load More Replies... My first doll (in 1988, Hungary) was an AFRICAN little girl. The FIRST! This is wonderful in a country which was a year before the end of communism!
I remember that one of my first doll was a Russian one, in traditional dress <3 and I also had a lot of dark-skinned dolls, back there in 2000, in Poland, when I was a little girl.
Load More Replies... When I turned 12, I was offered the gift of a doll by some family member, one brown skinned or one pale skinned doll. I had never seen a brown skinned one and choose that one because it looked beautiful. Actually I had never met any African people or any people from distant lands. My parents were horrified by this and sent me to a psychologist as thought something had to be abnormal with me. I went through 6 months of why brown, why did I think it was pretty. I am now 72 years old and I still have my doll as well as several more of all types, have been a wet nurse to a Kenyan baby why back in 1972 when living in Finland and having met a Kenyan woman in hospital and she didn't have milk and had to return to Moscow as a diplomat and left her baby with me for 6 months, I became his Godmother, I could write a book on comments feeding my red haired son and my godson with his black hair, some cruel, others naive.
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