Last night after the girls were supposed to be in bed Cookie came to tell me that Fudge had said a bad word. My five year old meekly came into the kitchen to meet her doom – a dab of vinegar on her tongue. Before I doled out her punishment however I decided to make sure she understood what she said and why it was bad. I asked her to tell me the exact words she uttered. She didn’t want too, so she whispered through the side of her mouth, “Isaidahossessss.”
“What? I can’t hear you. Will you please speak a little louder?”
Fudge rolled her eyes and again through the corner of her mouth whispered a little louder, “I said a hosssesssss…” The last part of her sentence became inaudible.
Now Fudge was being extremely cute talking through the side of her mouth. It took all my self control and then some to keep from laughing. But I really did need to know what she said. “Fudge, if you don’t tell me what you said so I can hear you I’ll just give you a huge spoonful of vinegar instead of a dab. Now tell me!”
So Fudge did as I asked and yelled, “I said you big horse’s @ss!”
“What?!! *snort, snort* Where did you hear that? *snort*Did you hear dad say that?” I almost let her see me laugh. See in our house if any swear words are said it’s Mr. Ferrero Rocher that says them. Fudge didn’t respond. She just stood there with tears rolling down her cheeks. We marched down the hallway to confront daddy.
“Fudge said a bad word. She must have heard it from you.”
Of course Mr. Ferrero Rocher denied saying any such thing but instead placed the blame on his unmarried 25 year old brother who comes to eat at our house on a rather frequent basis. And also uses some rather rough language at times.
Come to find out we were both wrong. She only watched Home Alone about ten times this week. Kevin!
Oh! Poor thing! And she got the vinegar for it.
*snigger* That’s better than something that came out of my Bear’s mouth when he was about 2. But I won’t say any more about that.
Kevin!
Oh my that’s funny, good for you for keeping it together.
I think I will have to try the vinegar trick here (and maybe for me too)
Oh, my five year old pointed with her middle finger at something and the other kids freaked on her and made such a big deal out of her ignorance that it scared her.
Oooooh! I wasn’t too thrilled when Jordan saw Home Alone last year at the Babysitters, thankfully he didn’t bring home any of the language in that movie.
He does keep asking us if new words are bad that he hears on shows or at school. So far none of them have been, thank goodness!
Oh, how funny. I’ll never forget the torture I felt when my dad asked me to repeat the words our neighbor had said to us. I couldn’t make myself say them. I spelled them instead with tears running down my cheeks.
I also have to laugh at the vinegar. My kids would LOVE that. They think it is funny to taste when I’m cooking with it. But we all like to suck on lemons and limes around here too. We used tabasco for about a week or two (for name calling) and haven’t had to use it again.
At least she is gorgeous 🙂 !!
Laughing . . . . she is such a cutie.
She IS gorgeous…and I could picture you trying not to crack-up as I was reading. You are stronger then me. I would have lost it and the lesson too.
I’ll have to remember vinager…or maybe Tobasco, as Icecream mentioned, depending on the severity.
😀