On Language and Civil Discourse
When Ethan was eighteen months or so, he was crawling/toddling around, and working everything he could reach - remote controls, light switches, and my tape player. Of course, he managed to find my George Carlin and Richard Pryor tapes. OK, time to intercede before he repeats what he hears!
Now it's web cartoons. I'm a big fan of the Homestar Runner website, and a lot of their content is OK for kids, but not all, of course, so when I copy the swf files to a folder so we can see them again later, I remove the ones with derivations of the word "crap" in them. Diana's heard him say "Open the freaking door!" at least once, a line from a Halloween cartoon, and now we have to take that one out of circulation as well.
Now it's web cartoons. I'm a big fan of the Homestar Runner website, and a lot of their content is OK for kids, but not all, of course, so when I copy the swf files to a folder so we can see them again later, I remove the ones with derivations of the word "crap" in them. Diana's heard him say "Open the freaking door!" at least once, a line from a Halloween cartoon, and now we have to take that one out of circulation as well.