What should you do when your child uses the wrong words? How do you respond? Do you yell and shout at them? No… here’s what you do.
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“Oh shiiiiit”… said Kian as he fell down. He said what!?!… Yup, you heard right. He used the “s” word as he fell and hurt himself. “How the hell did he learn that?”, you wonder, scratching your head in amazement.
Well, if you’ve been following my posts, you will note that we have been a bit amazed at Kian’s ability to pick up and repeat words fairly quickly.
It’s Almost Like We Have A Human Parrot In The House.
His level of absorption and ability to repeat what he hears shortly after is quite amazing. And so, it is no surprise that when Kathleen and I, in our daily routines throw in the odd unmentionable word, without even realizing it… we have left a mark, an impression and a memory in the little guy’s mind.
You can’t believe what you’ve heard the first time… then Kian falls again… and again, he goes, “Oh shiiiit”…. Now you know for a fact that it wasn’t a mistake the first time around. He has definitely picked up the “s” word in his vocabulary and knows to say it when something goes wrong.
You panic! All hell has broken loose! What have you done!
For all your care and caution, for everything you have done and said to yourself, for everything you have prepared yourself NOT to do… for all the promises you made to yourself about being careful with your language… not exposing your child to the ugly side of this world at an early age…
“If he wants to learn something bad or speak a bad word, he will do it himself outside… at school…. Or elsewhere…” you tell yourself… and then…
Janani S Koushik
Megha Maheshwari
Aditi Malik
Mansi Zaveri
KSP Team
