Ian's Newest "Vocabulary Word"

Ian's newest word is "b.u.t.t.-load." Pleasant. I explained to him that this is a gross choice of words and what it actually means. He said he learned it from Mark, his friend at school. He seems to learn a lot from Mark. I told him not to say it, so for the next ten minutes every time I heard him in the other room while he was getting dressed, he was experimenting with the word in different voice intonations.

When I was in kindergarten, I called my brother a pig a.s.s. I had heard it on the bus from a guy with a mustache. I didn't know it was a bad word. I should have know since he was smoking outside of the bus right before he got on. He was a "highschooler." I called Marq that. My dad was on a ladder, like he usually was and is still to this day. He scaled down the thing and came after me. Holy cow, I didn't even know what I had done wrong. I guess I learned pretty quickly that day not to say that again, at least until I was a highschooler standing on the "smoking corner" with my quality choice of friends.

When Coral was 4 and Tif was 6, I walked past the bathroom and heard Coral say the word s.e.x.y. Talk about a jolt to a young mom. I think I handled it quite well though with textbooks and illustrations. Talk about over reacting. I thought I had to explain the whole thing to them, just because they said a word that contained "that word" in it. My poor girls. They still talk about it.