What are We Teaching Our Daughter? Part 2

So I promised a pretty good follow up to our post about dogs and Little People being put in time out. I'm going to jump right in and see if I can achieve some of the same shock factor that Marielle achieved when this occurred. Here goes ...

Marielle dropped an "F" Bomb!

In fact, she's dropped several, and Dad has heard all about it each time. That's right. I am to blame. My brother may have taught her to pick her nose, but I own the F Bomb. In telling this story, I am admitting that I use the F Bomb. Strictly as a modifier of course. Geoff (yes, I'm outing you on this) and I are always joking about how our use of this word sounds perfectly acceptable when we speak, but when we overhear someone else use it, we are totally repulsed. ;) Actually, we're pretty sure others think it sounds pretty tacky coming from us too. We've both been trying to curb it; he's been more successful than I, which is evidenced by the fact that his son is not dropping F Bombs.

So yes, she did use it as a modifier, which definitely points to me as the culprit. Again she was playing with her Little People barn. I think she was trying to open the front door and put her people inside. She was having a hard time with the door. Finally, she got the door open, and she started sending them all into the barn. She was super excited about her success. She announced, "I do it!!!" Followed by, "I f'ing do it!!!" Holy crap, there it was. We both froze, and Viv glared at me. We didn't know what to do. We didn't want to make too big a deal about it so she wouldn't realize how much attention said phrase could receive. Then she said it again. Aahh. At this point one of us stepped up and corrected her; asking her to say, "I am doing it." This seems to have worked ... for the most part. She's said it again a few times since then. My Mom had the pleasure of hearing it the other day when they were waiting for me in her car after work. Marielle was locking and unlocking the car doors and announced, "I'm pushing the f'ing button." Great.

Needless to say, I'm in trouble, and watching my language.