Of course it remains true that one should monitor one’s word choice in front of a toddler. F-bombs, negative remarks and forbidden foods are simply off limits and relatively easy to control. However, the next level of self-censorship is upon us. Witness this snippet of Maple’s pretend conversation she was having between a couple of her toys:
...and she took him out of the German kindergarten and now he’s in the bilingual program.
Now that’s innocent enough. She heard us discussing the kindergarten choices of one of our friends and was repeating part of the conversation. But suppose we’d been talking about medical conditions, or full-on talking shit about some other friends?
So if you’re ever hanging out with us, and Maple says something like “he has a drinking problem and beats his wife” do us a favor: ignore it.
3 responses so far ↓
1 walshking // Jan 15, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Don’t sell me out like that.
2 Elliott // Jan 15, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Totally.
I was sitting against the wall with a glass of red wine when the boy was, well, less than two, and I managed, with his help to spill it on my shirt.
F-bomb away.
So there I am, with a wine stain on my shirt and a toddler gleefully toddling an F-bomb dance in front of me.
‘F___. F___. F___. F___. ...’
My wife came in to chastise me, but ended up laughing too hard.
3 GrandCasey // Jan 16, 2007 at 11:56 pm
This reminds me when Halane’s brother Howard was about the same age, and I took him to football games – it was either that or miss the games. Howard became an accomplished swearer after that, and nothing I said could change it.
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