Well, although I felt like I was watching regular TV with all the editing and blooping, I kept thinking, "Nope, if this WAS the TV and my kids were around, I'd change the channel." That being said, I did think the video was rather humorous, although the editing could have been cleaner. I think the funny lies in your own imagination and not necessarily hearing the potty talk.
So what do we do in these situations? I have been there (although this mother's language was horrendous!!!). I know under times of duress, we all have our breaking points. I've been there myself, and have been there with my friends and their kids. NO one likes to hear a curse come out of their dainty 3 year old daughter's mouth, let alone such doozies as the synonyms for 'close your mouth'. I was shocked hearing that same dainty 3 year old say "Mom, this plate has crap all over it", after lunch one day. I wanted to go hide under the bed! But yep, where did she learn that lovely word? Hmm.
It's a challenge we all face. Unpleasant as it is, it happens. I wish I were better, but I feel I have made strides in catching my tongue. When your son or daughter feels your stress in a stressful moment and parrots back those expletives, you don't feel you've made large strides in parental accomplishment.
What do you all do!?
I'd love to hear back as well. Our best story is when we took a ride on the Alpine Slide here in Park City. Our daughters were ages 4 and 18 mos. To get to the top of the outdoor cement slide, you have to ride a chair lift to the top of the mountain, along with your sled. For us the most intense period was during the painfully slow ride on the open chair lift high above the hill to the top. Our youngest decided to throw a tantrum while sitting next to Dad and kicked her legs out and made her back flat. My husband clamped down the death grip on her leg, and it was apparent from his grimace that he was NOT at ease. I, in turn, put the death grip on my other daughter's leg who had turned to figure out what her sister was doing. At this point the chair lift stopped, and we got to swing back and forth for what seemed like an eternity. The longest moments of my life were spent on the ride, viewing the 3 inch wide wheel that the cable, that was our life support, precariously ran over. There was plenty of time to ponder, "What would have to happen to bump that cable off track just 2 inches?" My 4 year old was not immune to the distress of her parents and our tight lipped glances back and forth.
She looked at us and said, 'Well, da*#!!" And you know what? I completely agreed!
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