What’d You Say?
Ok, so remember how I was talking about boys and their gibberish the other day? Well, I have an even better one for you. Wednesday morning, my little boy and I came downstairs to have breakfast. When we were done eating, I went to sit on my big leather chair in our family room with a cup of coffee while I assumed little boy would start playing, as usual. Instead, he tells me to move so he can line up his cars. I said, “sorry sweetheart, mommy is sitting here, you can line your cars up somewhere else”. Now with complete and utter seriousness and innocence, he says to me, “no, I want to line my cars up on the f@$king chair”.
Ummmmmmmm WHAT?!?!?! My jaw dropped. I almost died. I had to keep my cool (and a straight face). I said, “what did you just say?” to which he replied “I want to line my cars up on the f@$king chair”. Oh, ok. That’s what I thought.
me: “So umm, where did you hear that word?”
boy: “Ahh, on Monday”
me: “Where?”
boy: “On Monday”
me: “But who said that?”
SILENCE
me: “Ohhhhhh, you mean the LEATHER chair! Yeah, this is the leather chair. I don’t know what that other silly word was, but let’s not say it again, ok?”
boy: “oh, ok. The LETTER chair”
me: “yeah”
So then I proceeded to teach him about different fabrics and textures……..the leather chair, the canvas basket, the wool area rug, his cotton jammies……
Haven’t heard it again since……and crossing my fingers that I don’t hear it again any time soon.
Great save mom!
I have an idea where he's heard it. My husband speaks to his brother on speaker phone usually and it is known to come out of his (BIL) mouth quite often. I always cringe and told DH to stop putting him on speaker!!!!
Maybe it will be like most other things, and he'll forget about it before it becomes a big deal. Let us know how it's going. I'm learning from this, you know!!
Quite a while ago, N started saying "stupid", way milder of course, but when she started calling people stupid, I told her that it's not nice to call people stupid. Now, if anyone says that word around her at all about anything, she says, "[person's name]! Don't say stupid."
Don't give a big reaction. Just tell him the "F" word is a dirty word and grown ups are the only ones allowed to say it. Don't show anger or laugh *which is what I would do, no doubt* He has no clue what it means. He probably picked it up from someone he knows or on tv. Kids hear everything, especially what they don't need to hear.
One day Darek (he was 5) aparently played my CD while I was in the shower.......he decided to sing the song Pu$$y Control to me later on that day. I told him not to say that word, it was bad. I nearly had a stroke. He was like "Okay, let's hear the song Pu$$y Con....con....I'm about to say it Mom" He thought the word Control was the bad word
Even now, it's hard not to laugh when those sweet faces look at you and drop a word bomb. Even at this age, I still want to laugh.