Homemade Curse Word
This story is slightly crude, but it has a funny and innocent element.
Deep Thinker came in and told me he’d beaten up the Hulk in his video game. I said, “really?” and he said, “yes, I was Spiderman, and I did some web-slinging ass-kicking!” And I said, “Oh goodness, we can’t say words like that okay?”
Always the minder of his mother, he says, “But Mommy, it’s true! I ass-kicked the Hulk!” We worked on that quite a bit that evening and had reminders for a while. Hopefully next time he’ll say he “won the game” or worst-case scenario “kicked butt.”
I know it’s kind of evil, but I slightly enjoyed the homemade verb (ass-kicked). It highlights his innocent little mind–he doesn’t even know how curse words are used, much less what they mean. Can’t he always stay this innocent?
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