Parenting fail

[drdoug]

There are some challenges in parenting where you never know until you finally face them how - or indeed if - you will be up to dealing with them. So, for instance, you might have a serious and profound squick about one of the icky substances babies tend to exude, and you will find out the hard way whether you can conquer that to deal with the

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[lovingboth]

I am told that when I was a toddler, I went around in a toy car going 'toot toot you old bugger'.

At that point, only one of the family could drive... and they still tried to deny I got it from them!

[vinaigrettegirl]

Oh, that's not a FAIL, that's a reasonable response.

Reacting to the exact same thing again tomorrow would be a FAIL, though, for obvious reasons, beginning with him thinking that maybe you're dumber than he thought. Wrong-footing him by ignoring it will keep him quiet and pondering :-).

(it's quite funny watching them figure stuff out.)

[jhg]

BRILLIANT!

[palmer1984]

That's sent me into fits of helpless giggles.

[cherade9]

I have a whole series of made up swear words that I've used around Adam while he was growing up. Poot, flip, sugar, buggeration, feck, plapper, pish or pish-posh. What's funny is now he's nearly nine, he's picked up 'proper' swearing, but still prefers our 'family' swears :)

Although I did catch my friends daughter trying to teach him to swear when he was two. Thankfully he didn't learn to speak until he was three and a half :)