Tonight at dinner, I got called out on saying the word shit. Jaffa was giving us a performance of one of the songs from the Wicked musical (her latest obsession, which, by the way, magically dovetails nicely with Mr. Potter) and came out with it. When Zeric gasped, she said, "Mommy says it all the time." I asked when she had heard me say it (I rarely drive here), and she said, "when she's cooking."
So much for the idea that cooking zens me out. And so I was busted (the kids' favorite word at the moment).
Anyway. I deflected and quickly mentioned that Eben had said one way worse the other day:
putin. In French, putin means whore. (I wonder how the Russians feel about that.) It's pretty colloquial these days, but still not polite. I heard Eben say it when he was playing with his French friends, and it rolled off his tongue very smoothly. Zeric said that he already looked it up and that it was only a bad word if you were 80 years old. So I sms'd a French friend and asked her and she said YES. IT IS A BAD WORD. Ha! And so there were instructions to NOT SAY THAT WORD ANYMORE.
Then, predictably, the kids asked what it means. Ummmmmm. Ahhhhh, wellllllll. Hmmmmmmmm. Zeric jumped in and said that it is what you call a woman who kisses a lot of men. And Jaffa asked, "and why is that a bad word?"
EXACTLY.
We'll be accepting the girl-parenting award of the year next month, thank you very much.
