The english language is so complicated! I don't usually think about it much because well, I get it. Or I guess I should say, I get what I am saying. I don't know if you get what I am saying, but I get it. Get it?
I forget that my children don't know all the rules yet. They don't know all the words either. And then there are those words that sound the same but mean different things. Those are the words that cause most of the problems around here.
Yesterday I had all four kids with me at Sam's Club. We were pretty much at the end of our shopping trip and I was at my wit's end.
Sara was driving me batty so I turned to her and said through clenched teeth,
"Sara, you are driving me nuts!"
Innocent enough...
NOT.
She gasped. Looked me in the eye and said,
"Mom, you said a bad word."
Fantastic.
It took me half a second to realize what she was even talking about but then I knew. And because I'm a glutton, I decided to pursue it further. So I asked her,
"What are you talking about? What did I say?"
"You said a boy's private part!"
Why yes, yes I did.
And then in the candy aisle at Sam's Club, I had to explain to a 6-year-old, 4-year-old, and 2-year-old, the different meanings of the word nuts.
3 comments:
That is soo funny- you never know how kids are going to take what you are trying to say:)
That's hilarious! But by the end of a shopping trip at Sam's Club with all four kids, I would have probably said more than one ACTUAL bad words.
That is hilarious!!! So very funny!!!
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