Alright, so most people’s kids have heard them swearing, so when the little ones drop oh say, the “f-bomb” at home, you don’t freak out too much, especially if you know they don’t do it around other people. Well, Gwen, our 5-year-old for those of you unfamiliar, was getting very frustrated when Battlefront II wasn’t working on the kids’ profile. It would seem to load, but the sounds weren’t playing, and if you tried to enter the training, it would just exit the program. After a few rounds of this, she started:
“Holy fuck-a-moly!”
The first time I snickered quietly and decided to ignore it, seeing how she never swears. The second time I had to ask if she’d heard it somewhere or made it up herself, she is quite creative after all. At first her answer was that she made it up, but then after a little while (and another use of it) she remembered where she heard it.
“Actually, I heard it on Berenstein Bears.”
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“No, honey, you heard holy guacamole on Berenstein Bears.”
“Oh.”
Ahh, little ears!
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Note to those concerned about my daughter’s sailor mouth – after one or two more variations she received the admonishment in the title and switched to crud.