things I’d rather not say
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 12:16 pm by pannthere are some expressions that have entered my vocabulary since being a parent that really annoy me, but I seem to say them anyway:
- use your words
- gotta go pot-pot
- That’s 1 (2, 3)
I’m sure there are more but those are the ones that are really annoying me at the moment. I do want my kids to use their words and use the toilet appropriately. But god, “use your words” sounds really asinine to me.
And, counting them for misbehaving is certainly better than, say, screaming and walloping them on their butts, like I saw two families doing yesterday at the swim club (yuck). One was a family where both parents were also smoking while spanking their kids in public (we moved to a different area of the lawn to get away from both the smoke and the awful parenting).
Well enough of this bloggity blogging, folks…. I gotta go pot-pot pee.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I seem to have invented some odd ones:
“skippety-hop” for “hurry up”
“rum-tum” for “tummy”
I can’t even tell you the others because they’re so embarrassing. My kid corrects me all the time. He wants me to talk like other people. But there are some made-up words I use that he doesn’t know yet are made up and he uses them all the time. The same thing happened to me with my mother. I tried to use a made-up word in a school essay in the eigth grade and found out nobody considered it a word except my mother.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I like skippety-hop. Such a bunny-ish way to say get a move on!