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Originally Posted by Cloud
just general comments, okay? You know the answers for yourself, obviously. Keep plugging away at the good stuff. kids don't have any sense of proportion or appropriateness; it's up to us to help them achieve that.
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Oh, I appreciate it. I'm always wavering between shock and horror at what I see other parents doing and then wondering if I am the cause of shock and horror to those same parents.
E.g. I take a somewhat Lenny Bruce approach to language. There are no bad words, just inappropriate audiences. I don't drop the F bomb in front of the kids, but I also don't let words like poop and penis become "charged." So when we had a spate of "penis butt" this and that. I just told them that those words are fun to say, but they have to consider who their audience is. It is not ok to say them to the librarian since she is not the right audience, but it is ok to say them to their friends.
Well, almost. Some semi-horrified looks from the other moms at school when the 3 yo, mm, was calling everything "stupid"