i'm not really sure when or how my sweet, adorable, charming, innocent two-year-old daughter learned to pronounce the f-word, but she did. because tonight, at the dinner table, in the middle of her blueberries-and-yogurt dessert, out spilled the most dreaded curse word this side of the international date line. and here's the funny thing. even though my youngest still struggles with the proper pronunciation of several common consonant sounds, she nailed that f-word like she had been practicing that expletive her entire life. and once she noticed the sheer horror that transpired around the dinner table upon her initial articulation of that most pointed of pointed profanities, she let rip again and again and again like a dam had burst open inside her windpipe.
and if nothing else tonight, i learned that a stern admonishment from a concerned guardian to refrain from invoking a particular vulgarity has little or no impact on a precocious two-year-old. because the more i wagged my finger in the general direction of my potty-mouthed junior miss, the more the little one revelled in the impact of her newfound vocabulary.
of course it didn't help that my eldest was doubled over, rolling on the floor expelling gales of laughter at every utterance of the sailor-endorsed standard.
and i suppose the worst part of this whole debacle still lies ahead of us. the part where two inadvertently breaks into an x-rated tirade at a most inopportune moment, in public no doubt, thereby bringing shame and humiliation upon her entire family. i believe the chinese refer to it as tiu lien. loss of face. oh well, what will the neighbours think of us now?
"alright, which one of you taught my little sister the f-word?" - seven
if only he had held onto jennifer:
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Ahahahahahahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteI bet it was the TV.
You are a teacher, right? You should know that kids always seem to know more than they should. And a lot more about things that adults think kids shouldn't know about.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, I'd say TV. Radio MAYBE if they played a song that was uncensored. Or maybe Much was playing something? And if a stern finger wagging isn't working, try to deprive her of cookies. Super evil, but it may work.
T.D.
Don't know if you do time-outs, or if 2 gets an allowance, but you could try a time-out, or a $0.25 in a jar each time she does so again.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I've just avoided it because I was told of the extremely negative meanings of the word, and read a lot so found there were a hundred more effective ways of insulting someone than just saying a swear word.
I think two could understand that. Try explaining. :).
T.D.
nah, i think she learned it from seven. you never know, siblings learn alot from eachother.
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