Potty Mouth
Bad words. Our kids are learning them. Fortunately, they’re limited to words that, while bad for kids, aren’t really all that bad. I mean, they could use words like I do and that would be (and has been) bad. But the kids, and especially my four-year-old son, just sort of arbitrarily blurt out words like butt, poop, and some words that, to me, make no sense but given the context I can figure out what they mean. Like tee-tee. And it’s weird to me because he doesn’t always really use the words in context or a sentence. He’s just kinda sitting there and then says fart and laughs. It’s not like he farted or anyone else did. He just felt like saying fart.
Anyway, I’ve told the kids to watch their mouths. I told Junior she needed to get her language under control or she would get in trouble. She says to me What if I accidentally say a bad word?. And I ask her how she could possibly say a bad word accidentally. She says Well, if I say shampoo, then I’ve said poo.
I guess you can’t argue with that.
October 14th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Darn is another way of saying Damn. Crap is another way of saying Shit. Heck is another way of saying Hell. And so on and so forth. Saying one of them means the same as saying the other. So you might as well ban Darn, Drat, Heck, Nuts, Phooey, Suck, Sucks, Geez, Crap, Pee, Pee-Pee, Weiner, Schlong, Dipstick, Poo, Poop, Feces, Excrement and all the rest.
They are just words. They are unpleasant only in their connotation, but the connotations themselves are appropriate to the emotions that evoked their use in the first place, so if you are angry, you should be able to use those words created to express that feeling.
Get over it. Or come up with a feasible alternative language where you and only you won’t take offense.
October 14th, 2010 at 10:11 am
After the first little one arrived, whenever I’d stub a toe, I had to start saying “Boat” instead of that word that sounds like “Ship”. He’s 20 now and still laughs whenever I say, “Boat! Boat! Boat!” in frustration.
Kids’ll change your mental, for sure.
October 14th, 2010 at 10:12 am
And don’t be too certain there was no fart before the exclamation. Kids are sneaky little trumpeters.
October 14th, 2010 at 10:18 am
ROFL @ Boat!
October 14th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Hopefully she never becomes a Chicago Cubs fan and asks you what position Kosuke Fukudome plays. 😉
October 14th, 2010 at 10:21 am
“He’s just kinda sitting there and then says fart and laughs.”
I have yet to meet a man who has ever grown out of this stage.
October 14th, 2010 at 11:18 am
My kids were not allowed to “help” me on any building or mechanicing projects. Their mom and their Southern Baptist granny did not like the vocabulary expansion they received during these projects.
October 14th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
“He’s just kinda sitting there and then says fart and laughs. It’s not like he farted or anyone else did. He just felt like saying fart.”
I’m the same way with “Hog”…I used to be better, but Breda laughs hard when I say it, now I can’t stop!