Potty Mouth
Like many of our peers, we have lived almost solely around adults since moving out of our parents’ homes. We don’t think too much about letting an “h-e-double hockey sticks” slip out or the occasional “f-bomb.” We’re not really fazed by the language that escapes our lips when for instance that stupid-no-good-blankity-blank cuts us off in traffic. And when a dish breaks on the floor, one sometimes can’t help but say, “Oh, shoot!” Except, not really “shoot.”
Now that we are new parents, we have started to substitute some of these words with synonyms not uttered since grade school. We’re hoping that if we start now, we’ll train ourselves to use a cleaner lexicon by the time Penny is really mimicking our speech.
For the other new parents out there who very soon may need to start a similar regimen, we offer the following phrase list (feel free to add your own):
Jerk-face: someone who does something annoying, asinine; usage: “get out of the fast lane, you jerk-face!”
Bull puckey!: I don’t believe it; that’s incorrect; usage: “That’s bull puckey!”
Dagnabit!: Interjection. An expression of surprise. syn. Gosh darn it, shoot, fiddlesticks, woopsadaisy
Sacre Bleu!: Unbelievable, surprising: usage: “Sacre Bleu! I was almost hit by that falling piano.”
Shut the Front Door!: Stop it, discontinue, no-kidding: usage: “Shut the front door! You can’t be serious!”
D’oh!: Oops: usage: see Simpson, Homer.
posted by New Parent @ 5:40 PM
3 Comments:
My mom always says "doggone it!" I don't know if it's a synonym for something nastier she used to say ... probably not.
I might have to pass on bull puckey and go with ol' TR's "bullfeathers!" Otherwise I like the list! Now to get Eric to start using these ...
You may want to rethink jerk-face! I agree with Robin's bullfeathers. My all-purpose word is fishsticks which I find covers almost any situation--inflection is all! G'Mom
Just wait! Very quickly she will start saying these things back to you with your angriest inflections! My neighbor at Artspace has a 2 year old who is saying "Stupid head" everytime she is mad at her parents. You can't laugh at this stuff as funny as it seems because she will say it to her little friends at school. It's so hard to be the parents of just one, because you don't see them use these words with other little ones. My advice is to use as many descriptive real words as possible especially when you are angry. They so need to learn how to express feelings accurately--or do something instead of saying something--like take a walk when you are angry. Oh no, I'm preachin'---sorry, I used to be a preschool teacher. Love Aunt Ann
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