It came out of his mouth like I wasn’t there.
Except I was there and typically those words before coming out of his mouth had come out of mine.
He looked at me waiting for a blast of parenting. Except I couldn’t because those words are said by me in anger, in frustration and sometimes in telling a story to get my point across.
I don’t swear a lot and when I do it generally because of all of the above. I never use to, however, it was a respect thing and I remember saying to my husband when we first met, when I read more, wrote more “there are some amazing words in the English language you grab that one.”
Swearing, however, loves it or hate has become the modern day slang. Words once used to describe a terrible act is now just a word they have lost their meaning and its nothing to hear the abhorrent c-word screamed across the junior oval during a touch game when I’m on playground duty.
So as we stood there in the line I said to him those swear words the ones your just tossing into your everyday conversation are adult words with adult meanings and you using them as a child doesn’t make you look impressive it just makes you look more like a child beside its much more impressive when you add a little colour to expression using other words.
He tilted his head and so on cue, I said like for example holy hot wings batman. He laughed and so I said doesn’t that sound better and funnier than a plain old swear word.
Now don’t get me wrong you’re going to swear at some point but right now you’re a child and those are adult words and if I hear you continuing to use them I will start charging you rent because if want to behave like an adult you will charge like one.
Since then in moments of frustration, pain and in him just telling a story, you can hear b3 scream fudge buckets with a cherry on top or my favourite that he says ever so slyly knowing he has almost crossed the line you crazy mother lover.
xx
Deb
