5 am - awake for no reason
5:45 - still awake... shay leaves for work
6:20 am -hank enters my room and wants to watch cartoons
7 am - i decide to shower because trying to sleep with a 4 year old questioning everything isn't working so well
7:15 am - I hear "HOLY CRAP".... coming from my sweet, innocent, perfect angel of a childs mouth
So what do I do?
Bust out laughing of course!!!
Then, after laughing (where of course Hank can't see me because if he did he would continue to repeat himself thinking he did/said something funny and well, that's not appropriate or the way to raise a child, right?) I proceed to walk into the room and ask the ineveitable and the conversation went something like this:
me- "what did you just say?"
Hank- "what you said?" (yes it's said exactaly how you read it)
me - "what did you just say?"
Hank- "holy crap! the bird feeder is broken!!"
me- "excuse me?"
Hank- "holy crap!" (ok so I set myself up for that one)
me - "we do not say that word! that is a bad word and you know better."
Hank - "well mom, holy isn't a bad word!"
me (trying not to smile/laugh) - "no Hank, the other word. we don't say that. just like you aren't allowed to say stupid, you can't say the other word either. where did you learn that anyway"
Hank - "at school" (ah, the beautiful side of school!)
me - "well we don't say bad things like that. that's not what nice little boys say"
Hank - "i know dat. but mom, boys can say dat. girls can't"
me - "no Hank they can't. that's an adult word and we don't say it, ever, for any reason."
Hank - "i know. but only boys can say holy crap" not girls and you're a girl mom"
me - "listen, if you say it again, you will get your mouth washed out with soap. Do you like that idea?"
Hank - "no!"
me - "good. glad to see you understand me and by the way, mommy can say whatever she wants."
Hank (as he is walking off) - "whattteverrr!"
Great..... gotta love getting the whatever after an important lesson has just been taught. Makes me feel like I'm doing a damn good job at this parenting thing....
or maybe not.
1 comments:
don't feel bad...the other day caily said "DANG!" and i told her she isn't allowed to say that and she said "well my teacher says it!" awesome, huh?? a second grade teacher says DANG in her classroom...they also says "what the?" and i can't stand that!! because i know what they want to say! children...and why did your husband go to work so early?!
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