You usually say some sort of expletive. It's ok, I do it all the time. Just this morning I told the cat, who was hungry (really hungry) to "stop bitching and moaning" to me. Of course, he kept meowing at me until I fed him, but the kids found it funny that I cussed at the cat. Oddly enough, I think Dexter the Cat understood me and started eating his food.
While the kids know that there are some words that are taboo (um, the F word), they have figured the PG version of curse words.
Miles' favorite curse phrase is "Darn it." Whenever he's frustrated, I hear an "Oh darn it," coming from his direction. Funneee. Even though, I have heard the S word and damn, too, it's "darn it" that he uses the most.
Caitlynn has gone old school on us. She's started using "drats" to express frustration. Drats. I wonder if she'll start saying "Oh, fiddlesticks" or saying "fudgesicle" in place of the F word. It reminds me of little old ladies that don't want to curse in front of their grandchildren. These are the same little old ladies who have a candy dish (bottomless) sitting out and can bake a batch of cookies in the blink of an eye. I'm looking at you, Grandma Cook.
Of course, I'm happy that the kids don't copy everything I say. I say lots of bad words. I stub my toe a lot.
On another note, both my grandmothers celebrated birthdays this month. Happy Birthday to both Grandmas! They won't ever read this blog, but I'll put it out there anyway.
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My mother would use 'crap', but I always thought it was 'crab' because I didn't know the word 'crap'. I figured it was her Chinese pronunciation in the way, or there was some ancient Chinese folktale in which a crab did something so bad it was to be likened to faeces.
My dad and I like to use 'Gosh darnit' when it's not appropriate to cuss openly. We learned it from The Little Mermaid interactive Disney game, where there was a basic flip-the-cards-in-pairs-to-get-a-match game, and everytime we didn't match it, Ariel would say 'Gosh darnit!'
Why we, father and son, were playing such a game together, I'd rather not divulge.
Michael - I say "crap" a lot. Gosh darn it, is a good one too.
Little Mermaid, eh? heheheh...
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