To be fair, the pastor in the interview didn’t say “mummy”, I suspect the British proof reader spell checker automatically corrected it without thinking about it. You do know spell checkers have UK and AM versions of spell check, don’t you?
I also am the mother of four (three of them girls). While it would be perfectly normal for a six year old to consider her entire class her friends, it’s first grade, not junior high, for pity’s sake... we don’t know that the child was referring to the entire class, she may have meant her all her friends in that class were dead. It’s a simple statement that adults read more into than a child would.
And yes, a child would refer to being physically unhurt as I’m okay. Kids don’t necessarily recognize or speak about emotional trauma immediately. Their world is more immediately physical, which is why kids don’t do delay gratification well and why we call adults who also don’t do it well as childish or immature.
Are you always this condescending to people?
If she is covered in her classmates blood, the little girl's statement to her mother that "I'm okay" makes sense as anyone seeing the blood would immediately think that it is hers and that she is wounded.
I did not know this - fascinating. Wonder if they have Cajun, too!