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Posted in Lovebug and tagged with Add new tag, behavior, Lovebug, parenting on 12/21/2008 11:32 am by Jerseygirl89I would like to be able to tell you that I don’t swear in front of my children. I would like to be able to tell you that Hot Guy doesn’t either. But I would be lying.
I can tell you that we’ve taught Ironflower to dismiss our swears. She always reminds us that our choice of words isn’t nice. And then she brags that kids never say them (I love how naive my daughter is). But Lovebug is another matter.
Months ago he started saying, “Oh shit!” whenever he dropped something. Which was COMPLETELY my fault, since Hot Guy never says that. Months ago we started trying to talk him out of saying it, if for no other reason than I would have been mortified if his teacher had to call me about it. So naturally I too have tried to stop saying, “Oh shit.” I tried replacing shit with sugar and shoot like I used to do when I was teaching, but for some reason it didn’t take. Instead I found myself using my other favorite exclamation even more often.
And so now I have a two and a half year old who exclaims, “Oh, Cheezits Christ!” whenever something goes wrong. No matter what kind of crisis we’re having, I laugh every time he says it. It’s less blasphemous than what I actually say and he says it so earnestly ….I haven’t even tried to correct him.
It’s better than “Oh shit”, right?
December 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Oh, how funny! I love the Cheezits part.
December 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Yeah, we aren’t so great about watching our mouths in front of the kids either. My son used to run around saying “Oh puck!”
December 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
The Cheezits totally crack me up!
December 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Too funny!
When my daughter, now 21, was just starting to form sentences, my husband was working on the boat engine while she sat in the cockpit stacking blocks. Needless to say, as he fought with uncooperative bolts and cramped conditions, a range of foul words drifted up from time to time. Meanwhile, Felicia stacked her blocks as high as she could, but eventually they’d topple over. “Oh, f***.” She stacked them again, over they went. “F***!” And so on. I looked at my husband, he looked at me, shrugged, and said “at least she’s using it in the right context.” We had to explain to her there were certain words she could say at home, but not at school or around Grandma and Grandpa.
December 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Our son had problems saying ‘Ford truck’ and ‘bridge’.
One day, at the dinner table (grandparents, 2 siblings and their spouses, us, and our 2 yr old son), Motor Mouth was trying to tell his Grandma about Grandpa’s Ford Truck. Instead, it came out as ‘Grandma, fuck Grandpa!’
He loved bridges and when he saw one, at the top of his voice, he would excitedly proclaim: “Bitches!!” Funny. Not so funny when young women are walking past…
December 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Maybe you can teach him to say MotherFunyun next.
December 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The part about the cheezits cracked me up!! My son said Dammit
December 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
(sorry)
My son said dammit the other day and Hubby said “that’s all on you!” That’s what I say when something messes up.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
It’s hard to make the disapproving face at someone who says Cheezits Christ.
December 21st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
My first- never curses. She seems to “get” that Mom talks like a sailor & she should not. The second? Repeats things I’m ashamed to even say here. I’m trying to watch it. I am. But Cheezits Christ? That’s just too funny. And doesn’t help the motivation to clean up the verbiage.
You never know when those naughty words will provide hysterical laughter, and come on, don’t we need that right now?
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Our 4 year old says “Oh Cheeses!”, fortunately that’s the only thing he’s picked up. I can’t even blame my husband, who never curses.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
AsianMommy – Thanks!
Karly – Hmmm. . . I like the “puck” idea. Maybe I should use that.
Jen – Thank you!
cegrundler – I LOVE that story!
Simone – Oh, that’s great. I love it too.
Travis – Don’t tempt me.
April – It’s not our fault, it’s all the quality time with spend with our kids.
Stacey – Well, I haven’t tried that hard.
Jess – Makes you wonder what our third ones will do, doesn’t it?
outsidetheblue – I like that. Maybe I should try saying that.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
My nephew’s first word was shit thanks to me, he is now 18 and still saying it! My kids hear a lot of bad words but are told that when they have their own house they can say them:) That’s fair, right?