I have been known to throw the occasional cuss word around. Not cussing for the sake of cussing, but for particular circumstances such as falling down the steps, or dropping a plate, or the many, many times when my daughter was a baby and she would have such explosive bowel movements that we would find brown tar all the way up to her neck.

I do try to keep myself in check though, especially around my kids. I have taken to using words such as, 'Dang' and 'Poo'. They're tame enough that I think I may have heard them in Disney movies.

I also try very, very hard not to use the word, 'stupid'. I even try to monitor the shows my kids watch, so there aren't characters or people calling each other stupid. To me, it's just a nasty, derogatory word and my five year old son does enough to embarrass me. I don't need him calling people stupid to boot.

But, last week my husband bought this computer game that was beyond frustrating for me. You have to toss this marble across a gargantuan abyss onto a flat surface. That's it. But, I either couldn't get my marble across the abyss, or it would fly through the air right past the flat surface, or it would land on the flat surface only to roll off. I could not get it, and as much as I wanted to let some choice words fly right along with that marble, I didn't.

Though I did keep saying, over and over, something about the game and the marble being stupid.

Of course, the next time my son got a chance to play, he immediately began to say stuff about the 'stupid game' and the 'stupid marble'. I quickly told him not to say it anymore, that I shouldn't have said it either, because it's just not nice.

And now the little rascal is trying to draw it out of me, apparently to get me in trouble with myself. Under the guise of improving his knowledge, he just asked me, "Hey Mom, what rhymes with Cupid?"

Labels: Kids, Shameless Statements