Scenario: Me in the kitchen making dinner. I had just started the dishwasher and had accidentally spilled some of the powdered soap on the floor. I had not yet swept it up. Nixan walks into kitchen.
Nixan: "Mom, what the hell is on the floor?"
Me: Shocked out of my making-dinner-stupor, "WHAT did you just say?"
Nixan: Completely oblivious to my tone and quite matter-of-fact, "What the hell is on the floor...somebody spilled sugar."
Me: Still not believing my ears. Still in shock over the words falling out of my five year old's mouth.
Well...he had to have heard that phrase some where. I guess we'll have to be more vigilant at monitoring the media coming into our home. Although...I must admit that I'm hoping I am not to blame. I think I say, "What the heck" a million times a day. Could it be that he's figured out I'm substituting words here? I guess I better clean up my language! (That probably means eliminating "freak" from my verbage too...heaven forbid he figure out a substitute for that one!)
The ending: Nixan did not get into much trouble. He really had no idea that what he said was offensive...in fact, he figured he was being helpful by drawing my attention to what he thought was a horrible mess. But, he KNOWS now.
To the word "Hell": Get the heck out of my kid's head! Whoops...I mean...please leave my child's vocabulary immediately.
15 comments:
Wow. It's amazing what they pick up on without even really understanding it. We've had our own experiences with this. I, for one, think there should be a rule against Disney movies that rhyme with naughty words. "Lilo and Stitch: Stitch has a glitch." They simply could not remember the title years ago when it came out, and several letters were substituted for the "g" in glitch... one letter not so great, but that was totally an accident, but still not something you want coming from your child's mouth.
What the hell are you teaching your kids? My kids NEVER say anything like that! And if they did...they sure as hell didn't hear it from me!
Oh Jamie...thanks for the laugh. I am howling over here! I feel your pain...but too bad I know where my kids get it from -STEVE (ok, not really...its from me!)
Too funny! What the Heck is in our vocabulary all too often...we will have to watch our verbage from now on...
that is hilarious! hahaha. we can just picture it. hahaha.
It's Nick...Nick's the culprit! :) Naaaa-
I'm glad I wasn't there because I would have been laughing and ruined the whole "this is bad" thing. Although, I remember being mortified with my own kids.....and THEN laughing with Bob in bed at night sooo hard we couldn't go to sleep.
We've got it bad over here....Amanda is on a "don't say gosh" kick (because it sounds too close to taking the Lord's name in vain).....so we all have to say "oh my goodness" She is correcting us ALL the time. I'm trying to help her understand that even though I'm all for good language...I really don't want my boys saying "Oh my goodness"...if you follow me. So, I'm now wondering if I am becoming evil!....yah....you boys say, gosh, crap, freak...be a MAN....hmmmm
Love it! Has he come home from school yet wondering where you are "fixin'" to go? "Are we fixing to go to piano lessons?" That one floored me when McKay said that during our Texas days. They sure do pick up on things easily! :)
Oh Nixan, you are too smart for your own good. Why couldn't you watch the wiggles forever?
I blame Carson (remember his paper Santa...it all starts with smoking) :).
Love your boys.
We have had to talk to Gideon about several choice words. So sad but true. Bad language is all over the place. They hear and repeat. Those darn TV shows.
that was so funny! van always says "what the..." i wonder if he knows what he's leaving off the end of that statement. i never thought about it til now.
but i love that cute 5 year old stage...semi-innocent, learning so much and imitating all we do. we gotta be careful:) you have such cute boys!
Very Funny! I am glad Nick told me to read this. Kids learn things wherever they are. I remember where I learned stuff like that...It was from my cousin, Nick??? Wait a minute...Did I solve the mystery?
I think I would have been laughing so hard at the same time I was crying at the same time I was trying to put my eye balls back into my head........I think it's hilarious, and he will think it's hilarious when he's older so it's probably good that you documented that one! It is scary the things they hear that you don't realize though...yikes
I just showed Bubba your blog and we are cracking up....Bub says "what's up with the Ordyna boys they've turned into little rebels?....Santa with a stogie, and now Nixan cussing." He thinks he better have a word with Nick. LOL and we still want to have the arranged marriage for Carson and Brecken...just try to clean it up a little throughout the years okay, bub says he'll deal with the cussing because he likes Carson's hustle on the BB court.
no we really think you guys are great, thanks for keeping us laughing!
BTW...I have an easy solution to your problem with Nixan......Buy the cascade power pacs...pop it in, no pouring and no mess!!! that's the only parenting advice I have. he he he
Jamie this is so funny!!! I love a little laugh when it's not my kids. So Ky (my Stogie Santa drawer) has used the two most horrendous words Dog spelled backwards as he now says, and the one and only substitute for Freak. You can image the trouble he was in. Of course the first time it was the lecture, the second Good old mouth poison ( a Dove Bar, and not the Chocolate kind). He has accepted that some words just don't taste good!
At least Joe and I both can honestly say he did not hear those words from us.
It must be those sixth grade body guards he has, a whole other issue
Love it. You guys obviously need to clean up your language around the children. ;)
Yikes! Jamie, you're too funny. And I vote for Nick- hehe.
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