Speaking of Sucking....

Early last week while Greyson was building LEGOS with his father when his part boat, part airplane, part helicopter broke apart to which he cried out "This sucks..."

Hmmm, I instantly assumed he must have learned that at school, the downfall of exposing your kids to others, but honestly Raif and I have a habit of letting that lovely phrase slip out every now and again. But where ever he got it from, Raif and I quickly agreed that we needed to nip it in the bud.

We sat down with him and talked about how that wasn't a nice thing to say and while we appreciated the need to 'let it out' when you are frustrated perhaps we could think of some other phrase to use.

Raif and I ran through the usual suspects - darn, rage, shoot. None of them appealed to the boy so then we went on to slightly funnier ones like fiddlestix, darn-nabit, and the like. While he was amused by them he turned them all down.

"So Greyson, then what do you think would be a good word to use when you are mad?"

"PUFF!!!"

"Puff?????"

"Yes, puff!"

Well all rightly then, the new I am mad phrase around our house is 'puff.' Both kids have caught onto it and I have heard it several times when things get dropped on a toe or the one puzzle piece just doesn't seem to fit. Admittedly, I have tried it on a couple of times but it just doesn't have that umphhh, that quality that channels the anger out like a sucks or a shit or a fuck does. It just seems a bit too happy for my taste but hey its not my word. I just hope that I can keep my anger words under my breath so we won't have to come up with any more alternatives because Lord only knows what these two would come up with for motherfucker.