This reminded me about a comment I read on how to take insults in stride. They treated them like a foreign language. If one doesn't know German, and a German started hurling insults to them, they won't be affected because they don't understand it. I like how you taught your daughter. Words only have power over us if we let it.
Precisely. This is another thing I demonstrated for Smallsteps, and something I have used before as an example for the meaning of words.
Who knows, maybe the sounds babies make are actually the worst insults, but the parents just don't understand. :)