Toddlers Cussing: Gonna Get an Adult Rating For This One, For Sure
Posted on December 18th, 2007 in goofiness, language
Mike and Emme took us to a kids’ museum a few days ago. Boobaby, misidentifying a crab model (yeah, and she’s a naturalist’s kid!) shouted out,
"Fuck! Fuck!"
Um, what? The look on Mike’s face was priceless — a mixture of "Man, did you she really say that?" and "What the hell, did you teach her that?" (I get that look a lot, actually. I think many parents are somewhere between impressed with and appalled at my parenting strategies.)
But you see (I quickly explained) through the magic of Boobabish letter substitution "G" can become "K" and "R" fades away: Boo was really saying "frog."
Of course, "B" becomes "P," too, so if she’d been right about our little crustacean friend she would have been screaming
"Crap! Crap!"
At least she’s not loudly addressing her own private parts in public anymore. Now it’s just fucks, craps, and, of course, still poopy. Last night out at the Japanese restaurant:
"Big poopy in my diaper!"
Sigh. No confusing what that means.
Yeah, I Twitter, don't laugh. 
December 18th, 2007 5:43 pm
oh phonological processing, how I miss thee professionally….
December 19th, 2007 7:19 pm
Can’t wait for my son to talk!
My neice always yells, “Give me a piss!” I found out later that she wanted a kiss. Definitely had me boggled for a minute or two…
December 19th, 2007 9:10 pm
awww, too cute. Made me spurt water out of my nose…..
Conversation with my 14 year old:
‘He is such a pr@@k’
‘WHAT did you say?’
‘He is such a pr@@k’
‘A WHAT!!!!’
‘A pr@@k Mum, jeez aren’t you listening?’
Then I had to explain to her that I wasn’t hard of hearing….
December 19th, 2007 9:12 pm
dont know why that word came up as an email addy. I was trying to be *snort* discrete…
Can you fix it?
December 19th, 2007 9:39 pm
I don’t seem to be able to, no… sorry!
Prick, I assume, is the word we’re going for? Did he think it meant something else? Like, something you’d maybe think was OK to say in front of your mom?
I heart teenagers. I miss teaching. Sigh.
Dd.
December 19th, 2007 10:05 pm
Bizarre that it did that. Oh so I can say prick on your blog then *snort*
I can send you 2 if you like. I will swap them for Boobaby and you can see what she will turn out like. My girls were sweet and wonderful like yours once.
(honestly they still are)
December 19th, 2007 11:11 pm
You can say prick if I can say… well, all the stuff I said!
To tell you the truth, I was always best with teenagers as that cool uncle-like guy who they’re not related to. I have *no* idea how I’m going to do with my own! Piss-poor, probably!
Dd.
December 27th, 2007 12:46 pm
That made me laugh out loud. I better be careful or I’ll get fired.
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