Small Talk Six Saturday...

A group of ladies I've recently come into contact with over at momdot had a blog topic to write on for today. What are the six things that you say that you don't want your children to repeat? Are you sure that it only says "six" and not "sixty"??

1. I'm going with the word "shit" on the first one, simply because it's the word that hubby and I say the most and immediately regret when the little ones repeat it immediately and then proceed to run around and repeat it over and over and over and over and over....getting my point here?

2. "Dammit." We were at a store the other day and I dropped something and Delaney said "Oh dammit, Mommy". Funny to me? Absolutely. Funny to the 80-something-year-old lady in the store next to us? Probably but we got an awfully disapproving look. Old fuddy duddy.

3. "Because I said no." This is a favorite of the youngest. We have been going through the "why" phase here lately (he's almost 2 and his sister is almost 3) and they hear it a lot. Picture a scene where I pick him up and go to give him a kiss and he yells "No!!!" and I'm like "Why not?" and he grins his little ornery grin and says "Because I said no." Well all righty then...

4. "Do you want me to beat your ass?" Now let's put a disclaimer in this one before we get the anti-spank people all in a snit. We don't beat the kids - our preferred method of discipline around here is time out; however, a tap on the butt never killed anyone (I'm still alive, I'm typing this, right?). However the words "I'm going to beat your ass!" or "I'm going to beat you to death" are very self-satisfying to say when you are particularly frustrated at whichever child is annoying at that very moment. I honestly don't know why I bother anymore - they all know it's a bluff - the big boys and the little ones alike. For example, last night: Dear daughter does not want to go to bed. Daddy takes her to bed, reads her a story and tucks her in. Five minutes later she is out of the bed and back downstairs and trying unsuccessfully to hide next to mommy on the couch. Daddy says, "Young lady, get your body upstairs to your bed like a big girl or I'm going to give you a swat on the butt." She walks directly to him, pokes her little cutie patootie out and says "Just swat my butt, I don't want to go to bed." Pardon me while I walk out of the room to DIE LAUGHING before I come back and finish this list...

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5. "Your grandmother is crazy." Yeah that's a good one to discuss right before a big family dinner. Fantastic.

6. Although I've got to say the one that my daughter spouted off that I approved of wholeheartedly was this particular gem. My ex husband had come over to pick up her big brothers (the older 3 boys) and he's trying to be nice and say hello to her standing next to me outside. She is FURIOUS. She has figured out this is the guy that comes and takes her big brothers away. She says "No!!! I no like you!!! You a JACKASS and you not take my brothers any more!!!" He stood there stunned and said, "She was serious wasn't she?" I replied, "Umm, ya think?" and he said "She really hates me doesn't she?" I said, "Well thank God she is displaying better taste than her mother ever did." and with that I picked up my daughter and walked back in the house because ya know what? He IS a jackass - she nailed it right on the head.

As I am sure you can imagine with five kids, I could write a much longer list than this. I'm not known for my clean as a whistle language all the time for sure and neither is my handsome husband. Ah well, the humor makes it well worth it - well...except at family dinners. LOL

Have a great weekend everyone!