Rhyme Time

OMG!


We try to be the good parents....not freak out over silly stuff because young, impressionable, blah blah.


Evidently it is a ritual that at the age of 4 it is fun to rhyme. Totally harmless and cute rhyming. Parents, if your child begins doing this, do not, I repeat, DO NOT take them in public. It could lead to immense embarrassment.

Simple things like 'I love you mamma, llama, dama, bama' (luckily not Osama) Or 'Gotta tie my shoe loo boo doo sue mu rue koo'

Pinch your cheeks cute right. Just the cute stuff you want to hear and see.

Fortunately our incident occurred in the kitchen....

Harmless rhyming, just background noise whilst mom is cooking. She travels around the kitchen writing on the wipe board, cooking her dinner as I cook ours (hers would be better, strawberries and potato chips) and loud as can be...

"Whore" followed by giggles.

Spoon drops, sauce everywhere: UM WHAT?!?!?! That is what I wanted to shout, but deep breath and "Excuse me dear what was that?"

"WHORE" more giggles

Deep breath, "What does that mean?"

Now she knows the question and the tone... something is amiss. The jaws of silence clamp down. Do I force it? Do I beg and ask again? Do I repeat it?

"Sweetheart, you said something, what did it mean?"

"Nothing..."

"It is okay, I just didn't hear you well, I was cooking and it is hard to hear" (So I do lie, contrary to previous posts...)

"Whore..."

"Well, what does whore mean?"

"You know, whorea bora dora lora mora"

Well, I didn't but I do now!

Like I said, at least we were home because nothing compares to being in public when you child is trying to learn 'black' in Spanish.... ugh.... been there done that - no need for that story.