So, my thoughts on swearing. Basically, can't stand it. I've never been one to curse when I'm mad, or when I get hurt...I'm not sure why. I have sworn in my head a couple of times...but then I felt bad about it. I remember the first time I did it - it was like 3am and I was pacing back and forth in Cody's nursery when he was a baby. He would NOT stay asleep. I'd get him to sleep in my arms but if I deviated at all from the bounce/sway pattern I had going, he'd wake right up. I have never been so frustrated in my LIFE. I would swear at Jon in my head, because he was sleeping peacefully in the next room. :) I think some of that was postpartum...I've read about anger flashes being a part of the whole postpartum depression experience.
Anyway, it only happened on occasion and never out loud. There is just something in my head that will NOT let a swear word get from my thoughts to my lips. It's like opening my eyes during a prayer...I have a really hard time doing that. (Unless it's to see which one of my kids is poking the other one...) I'm not offended at all if someone around me lets one slip. It happens. I get that, and it's really not a big deal. (Unless it's Jon...then I get upset!) It's 'gratuitous pottymouth' that I really can't stand. Last night Jon and I were watching the blooper/outake reel from the show Arrested Development. Every other word in the outakes was the F word. Over and over again in the same sentence. It's like I get physically hurt by that kind of speech. I have a physical reaction to it...it's actually kind of funny. You should have seen me...I was convulsing and twitching and gasping when there was curse after curse after curse.
So if your kids come here to play, and they come home having learned a new word...It's Jon's fault. ;) (Just kidding! Really, the worst thing he'd teach your kid is the proper technique for throwing a football, or how to solve the Rubiks Cube...)
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Dammit Allyson, you need to stop mentioning me in your posts! - JF
Okay, Jon's comment made me laugh.
Actually, all of my kids now know how to swing a bat, solve a rubiks cube, and throw the football correctly because of Jon's "sports camps." Glad we have good neighbors!
Okay, Jon is hilarious!! I am so excited that I have a new post to read every day from you :) When I cringe is when you are watching a show and someone lets something fly and the kids are there and they hear something....Kids pick up on everything and so I just crings if that happens. I mean, of course we are really careful what they watch, but sometimes there is something in there. I want to get one of those Clear Plays or something like that....And about the pregnancy thing-It was totally not personal. I didn't tell anybody because I was having some problems for awhile and then I just didn't know how to bring it up! Otherwise I totally would have said something to you earlier....And I may be asking you for that chocolate :)
I meant "cringe" not crings!
hey dood your awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!
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