Parenting Faux Paux Comedy

Watch Your Language!

April Higney
Parenting, such fun in every manner. It can also be quite shocking what these little ones say.
They pick up everything, and I really mean EVERYTHING!
I must say I've had to curb certain language, and so has her daddy. (it just doesn't sound good anyway, but if you have used certain words out of context or without thinking, WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE)
Here are a couple of examples that happened to us in our daily life, sure to make you laugh!

Mommy, cleaning house and doing the daily routine of picking up toys, exhausted. At the time my daughter was only two years old, and picked up on every word she could vocalize, and pondered the words, as though she wondered what they meant. Now daddy is a man who tries to do his best in carrying out the same things in regards to speech, and sometimes mommy has to nudge him a bit. He lifts the couch for some assistance in vacuuming and notices toys wedged up beneath it. Now its just one of those busy days where your mind has gone from point A to point Z and back again. He looks at our daughter and smiles and says, "Now see that, this is why you can't have your toys in the living-room, you have all your (I'm gonna say a 4 letter word) "pooh" over here. She looks up at mommy with her soft blues, all sad-like, thinks for about it, and then out it comes. Some words we dread hearing from anyone's mouth but so often hear, and sounds so revolting from a little one, put into a context of words that you're not only shocked about, but send you into the next room because you cannot laugh about this in front of a child. - "But mommy, I didn't "pooh" over there." Needless to say, daddy of course, did the whoops look on his face, and needed to put down the couch and do the same, in the next room. The worst part of the whole thing was how so plain and clear her words actually were. Given her age, of course we pretended like nothing out of the ordinary was said. She hasn't said it since!

Here is one more I must say was contributed by my sister, putting me in such a very embarrassing position, as a parent. I'm a very quiet mannered petite woman. In some visits to see my family, with my daughter, they absolutely adored her, playing games and being silly was a routine, daily for the whole duration. Now my sister is a I think, cute full-figured woman, who can tend to be rather goofy when it comes to little ones. She started to do this thing with my daughter, and it goes something along the lines of puffing up the cheeks and saying, "Hi, my name is chubby, my momma's, my poppa's chubby, and I'm chubby too....." It goes on to where they go down a highway, one sticks his head out, and squeezes the air out of their cheeks upon "gee we're going mighty fast!"
I know it had to have been at least three to four months after returning home, and I had never again paid it any mind....until yes, that fateful moment, in a buffet chinese restaurant, out as a little family. The restaurant so quiet, not many people, suddenly, "Look mommy, look! Its Chubby!!!", and oh dear she kept repeating it over and over as the lady passed by our table. I tried to hush her and say, "no, no we don't say things like that" and she continued, "but mommy its chubby, isn't she cute." I'm not sure if the woman actually heard her or just pretended not to, but my own face was so red I wasn't quite sure how to react. I nodded politely at the lady. I was so glad to leave that restaurant!

Published by April Higney

A love for writing poetry for many years. Main concepts are based upon past/present/future struggles & issues of life and relationships, love and family. I am strongly passionate about entwining my heart & s...  View profile

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  • April Higney7/9/2009

    A Type-O in there I missed, darn, "thinks for a minute about it" I did catch it after!

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