SIERRA: Damn it.
KERRIE: Sierra, little girls shouldn’t say “damn it.”
SIERRA: *beginning to cry* Only mommies and daddies can say “damn it?”
KERRIE: Well, even mommies and daddy’s shouldn’t say it.
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SIERRA: *holding back tears*
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SIERRA: So NO ONE can say “damn it?!”
(Great. Go ahead and guess where she learned THAT phrase. One hint: IT WAS ME.
I’m probably too early for the Father of the Year award, right?)
While we do try to keep profanity to a minimum in front of our daughter, I decided early on to throw certain words into the “only for adults” category, along with alcohol and whatever else comes to mind as the situations arise.
I’ll let you know how that goes once Simone gets older than 4.
Sadly, I am the reason my son knows the words jackass & bullshit.
I was trying to figure out the censored word from just your title, and I kept thinking it was “Dick it”. So, I was wrong, but now I have a new curse.
I will use that curse every day.