Comments on: Poop Talk

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:27:37 +0000

The princess (4.5) says butt or fudge
the boys (11 & says Crudface

I say Fudge or crud otherwise the princess tells me it’s a potty word.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:38:18 +0000

I take sort of an unconventional approach here: I let my kids say what they want, with a few conditions. One, it has to be at home, in private. Two, if I happen to hear them, the usage must be appropriate. One lecture on the correct verb tenses of a certain word killed its appeal for my daughter, and I’ve never heard her say it since.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:41:41 +0000

I grew up in a house where both parents had mouths that would make sailors blush so as a teenager, I had adopted that same mouth. Of course, not in front of them because we weren’t allowed By the time I reached adulthood, I had worked to reign in that mouth a little and now I really try hard since I have two parrots! I do say “Crap!” a lot though and the other day my son couldn’t get a door open and he very non-chalantly said, “Ah, cwap!” and everyone around just giggled.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:42:05 +0000

That’s so funny, Mimi. I grew up in a home where there was no cursing either (except when my Pop-Pop would curse at the Phillies…we just let him, cause he was old, ya know
Today, I say things like, “shoot a stinkin’ monkey!” or just “Stink.” My kids have tried to say dang, which gets them in trouble. Mostly they say “stink” too.

By: Rhonda (Mimi)

Rhonda (Mimi) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:51:15 +0000

So funny, I use to say “pooparoni” a lot when the kids were growing up cause believe it or not, they never heard cursing in our house cause we just didn’t curse. I grew up in a household that I never heard it, so that’s what I was use to. If my parents heard us say “fart” we got scolded. I can remember one time when I was about 11 or 12 years old and wanting to know what it was like to cuss, so I rode my pink bike out in an open field behind our house and stood by myself and just starting yelling out every cuss word I could think of. After I got it all out of my system, I prayed to God to forgive me and went home….

By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:41:51 +0000

I can’t remember anything specific that we required our boys to substitute for *#$%, but I do remember taking them to the Castle Cinema to see “Harry and the Hendersons” when they were around 8 and 6 years old. At one point, the movie son yelled out “*#$%.” We were in the balcony, and the boys literally fell to the floor in hysterics. Not so much because he said the word, but because the parents had no reaction whatsoever. NOT what would have happened at home.

They remember, and we still laugh about it.

I must admit, now that they are 28 and 26, that I’ve heard them say “#$*%,” or even “!@+^” a time or two.

By: Jenny 867-5309

Jenny 867-5309 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:16:20 +0000

My grandfather has got my boys saying, “Son of a Seahorse!”. Which can give you some interesting looks when you’re in Walmart!