Heck, Darn, and others.

One day I was talking to my husband and I said “what the…”, and stopped short realizing that the ‘almost 4’ year old was in the room, but my innocent son finished my sentence for me, “heck!”, he said proudly.

I am not one for swearing, I don’t swear as a part of everyday conversation and I never have, but the occasional (at least once a day) heck, damn, or ass does make it into my vocabulary. Seriously, any bad word that my kid learns is from me!

Today I was having a hard day… the baby seems to be teething (at least I hope that is why he is chewing on his hand!), and I am trying to clean up my living room (by moving all the furniture around by myself)... so when the ‘almost 4’ year old starts running around the couch (and over all the stuff on the floor), screaming and laughing, and waving a toy car in his hand, the only natural response is… “what the heck!!” Right?

Ok, so what I really said… to my husband… who was still in the middle of his dinner… “Can you finish eating and take that child outside so he can burn off some of that damn energy!!!” I mean, I already had a headache, and the toddler was not eating, and the baby was attached to me…

So then… both the toddler and the ‘almost 4’ year old start shouting “damn energy, damn energy, damn energy!”

When hubby looks at me with the ‘ha ha, you did something wrong’ look, I just ignored him and pretended I didn’t hear them! (I think it worked!)

The ‘almost 4’ year old is starting school in a month… I cringe thinking about having the parent-teacher meetings.

At least the baby can’t talk yet… you know what’s worse than 2 kids running around shouting “damn energy”... yeah… 3 kids running around shouting “damn energy”!!

Thoughts from Robin P

When Lillianna was 4,I picked her up from pre-school and asked her how things went in school.
She rolled her eyes and sighed and exclaimed,”What a freakin’ day!” OOOOPS! Ya,that was my fault. I explained that we don’t say that…anymore. I tried to be really good after that!

Thoughts from carrien

I say SH*T far more often than I should. Surprising because I never swore before I married. I heard my then 3 year old son practising it to himself one day in his room, and had to explain that it was an angry word for poo, and I shouldn’t be saying it, and neither should he.

Thoughts from shaz

I notice that I say things more often now than before I had kids too! I now have a household ban on the word ‘stupid’, and occasionally I forget… but the almost 4 year old always says “mummy, that is not a good word!”

Thoughts from Suroor

Haha! This is hilarious! I swear (there I go again) I never cursed before the children