Yes my sweet little blue-eyes baby girl has been heard to blurt under her breath "Dammit!"
Apparently this is an parenthood epidemic even worse than catching the flu in a room filled with snot-nosed, sneezing and slurping first-graders. I know my friends all tell me it's true. Why just the other day one of my mom-friends was telling me of her experience with her son.
She told me that their dog had recently gotten fixed, and she was trying to get her son to say that their “dog had gotten neutered”. Apparently she expressed one too many times that the dog had gotten his balls chopped off. Although, who knows, maybe she said it just once. After all that’s all it takes!At any rate, the boy came over to spend the evening with me and my son. As they were playing together, the young man said to me matter-of-factly, “You know my dog got neutered.”
“I know.” I said.
And this is where it gets tricky, as my son then chimed in, “What’s neutered?”
I could have said that’s when they remove the dog's testicles – Nah, that sounds too technical for 5-year-olds. Besides I really didn’t want to explain the term when I wasn’t sure what the other parent would think. So taking a moment to pause, and taking a huge breath, I told him, “That’s when the animal doctor, the veterinarian, makes it so the dog can’t have babies.” Simple. Honest. To the point. And hopefully something that was not likely to get into the great ‘where do babies come from’ debate… Except then I heard from our young guest:
“No that’s when they chop his balls off.”
There was a moment of silence in the room, followed by gales of laughter ringing in my ears, my own laughter, as two young boys stared at me like a crazed lunatic. I couldn’t help but wonder, what my children are repeating to someone else…
Raising children sure makes life interesting!
i'm glad i found your post. my husband and i were recently called into our kids' school to meet with all 3 of their teachers and the director b/c of things our youngest - 6 years old - was saying. she said lots of things and was repeating lots of things that she didn't understand, but telling the teacher that our son sleeps with his daddy every night is what made them call us in. see, my husband has to be in our son's room every night or else he (son) will not fall asleep. after about 20 minutes, husband sneaks out. our son, who is 7 and autistic, thinks husband spends all night in his room. so our daughter reported that we have a 3-bedroom house - 1 bedroom for the 2 girls, 1 bedroom for daddy and brother, 1 bedroom for mommy.
ReplyDeleteand we just moved here and are new to the school - and this was their introduction to us as a family and they called us in to see what's going on.
unless someone tells you, you'll probably never know what the kids are saying! but we've learned that everything we do/say inside the home is being broadcast!