Alan & Brenda Leonard

5/26/03 05:39:

> Seeing as I'm flying, I can't bring my own knife.
>
> We'll see.

You can bring knives and such as long as they're in your checked luggage. I
always bring a knife or two, a can opener, veggie peeler, and things like
that when I travel. Much easier to make a simple meal in a hotel room.

My apologies if I just ruined your excuse for avoiding the playing with your
food funshop, though! <g>

brenda

Alan & Brenda Leonard

> That must be our reason also. My daughter said the F word yesterday, the
> whole family just stooped dead in their tracks and looked at me. Ugh, it
> prob. was me earlier in the day someone had nearly run my car off the road
> and I am certain I said that.

She may have only been trying out a new word, but now she's discovered it's
a power word. If your family doesn't make an issue of it, it will probably
go away naturally, assuming you'd prefer that.

My son was two when he dropped something on his foot and used the F word to
express his displeasure. We just ignored it, although my brain spun around
the idea that I needed to clean up my language, and soon!

I think I next heard the F word when he was 5, as part of a question.
Something like, "Why do soldiers say, um, uh, f*@$ so much?" I made an
effort to answer the question, commented that it's not a great word in some
people's minds (such as his Grandmother, whom we were seeing soon), and that
his father never uses it.

In recent weeks he's used it occasionally, but likely because I tend to
swear more when my husband is away. Something to do with the number of
things that go wrong when he's gone, probably!

brenda

Mary

From: "Alan & Brenda Leonard" <abtleo@...>

<<My son was two when he dropped something on his foot and used the F word
to
express his displeasure. We just ignored it, although my brain spun around
the idea that I needed to clean up my language, and soon!>>


None of my kids have ever really used language like that when they were
little. I guess we're just lucky. Hell or damn slipped out once or twice
with each one of them and I remember Tara using "Jesus Christ" in not a nice
way to her dad once. But fuck or even bitch or shit never happened. Guess
it's just not in them!!

Mary B