My daughter is now 8. I kind of figured that she knew all the main bad words that are out there. I knew them all when I was 6. Of course, I hung out with a bad sort of kid. You know the type. The ones that have older siblings.
The other day I asked my daughter if she knew what dirty words were. She blushed and admitted that she knew the F-word, the S-word, and the H-word. I was shocked! I didn't even know what the H-word was. Did my daughter know curse words that I didn't? Am I so old that I'm not hip to what's bad?
I asked my daughter what the H-word was. "It's really bad," she responded. It's "hate." So what's the F and S words? It turns out they're fart and stupid! She apparently still doesn't know what curse words are yet. And she still believes in the tooth fairy. Go figure.
Then she told me that she wanted to sing Cee Lo Green's song for the school talent show audition. But she said that every version is looked for is loaded with bad words.
My heart stopped. Did she stumble upon the real lyrics to the song? It turns out she's talking about the cleaned-up radio version. Apparently it has "hate" throughout it.
I guess I can breath again!
LOL! One of the older siblings of the girl you hung out with is my husband! He must have had some mouth on him! Good thing he doesn't use it much anymore!
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ReplyDeleteYeah, my son knows the curse words. Luckily he doesn't say them.
We say fart a lot in this house though.
Your daughter sounds innocent and very precious!
ReplyDeleteMy son shared the F word with his lunch group. And I mean shared, like told them it was a bad word. He didn't use it in any context other than that it was a bad word.
ReplyDeleteIt was not 'fart'.
We live in sort of an inner city area; which I thought was super cool until that day...
Ooooh. As a self confessed potty mouth from a very young age, I have to say this post touched my heart. Really, aren't the words hate and stupid as hurtful and cruel as many of the bad words adults use? Perhaps even more so. When someone using a curse word, it is often becuase they are at a loss for words to adequately express themselves. But, hate and stupid, those are words that too often appear in everyday vocabulary. (And, my wish for your little sweetie, is that she always carry a bit of the lovely gentleness that is in her heart.)
ReplyDeleteLove this post. My 6 year old to me that one of the kids on the bus was trying to get him to say really bad words and that he didn't want to say them. I also didn't want to tell me what they were. I finally got it out of him and it was pee pee and poo poo. After stifling a laugh, I told him, those aren't very bad, we use them in the house all the time. He said, yeah - but not in public. Then I taught him how to respond so the kind won't pressure him to say "bad" words again. That worked. Now to the next problem.
ReplyDeleteShe's doing pretty well if that's all she's heard by now! Hurray for innocence.
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Lol...funny how our perspective changes as our children get older!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Just wait 'til she disovers YouTube. Max has learned some very bad words from that and innocently repeated them to his teachers and therapist who at first probably thought he learned them from me and my husband. Now I have learned to put a filter on YouTube and Google!
ReplyDeleteI love her version of the words. I don't like them either.
ReplyDeleteI remember the day my little sister learned the F-word. My father parked his car across the street from the school in a closed gas station. When she got into the back seat she saw the F word cratched in the gas pump. She was trying so hard to sound out the word and my father must have been so embarrassed because he peeled out so fast from that gas station. Later my mother had to have the dirty word talk with her because she wouldn't stop saying it and demanded to know what it meant.~Ames
ReplyDeleteI agree with your daughter. "Fart" sounds like a very bad word to me. I prefer "cerebral flatulence" because it sounds like a real disease.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with Judie above. Great post.
ReplyDeleteAt least in Spanish, there are words in context can be very good or very bad. Words are just sounds and we take care to give it meaning. That is why children should learn when and in what situation are well used.
ReplyDeleteYour daughter is precious. Hate is a very bad word. I am glad she knows that! I wish more young people thought like her 8 year old mind does!
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ReplyDeleteLOL...your daughter sounds adorable. Let's hope she doesn't venture into the world of YouTube!
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Hi Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cute story! I too was stumped on the H -word until you told us ... lol. Times are so different today and can't even imagine raising a child in this world now.
How adorable is that... If only they could remain innocent foreVer...
ReplyDeleteA Very cute post from a Very cool woman!
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i am around bad words ALL the time so sometimes i say them without thinking but im glad your little girl is still innocent.
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