Yesterday Number 3 got home from school,
walked in the door,
and asked,
“Mom… what does DICK mean?”
Now, explaining what it means doesn’t really bother me.
It’s more that he has acquired this new vocabulary word.
It’s now a part of his arsenal.
And when he shared it with me, he also shared it with Number 4.
Who was standing right there.
And that is really not good.
So I posted his question on the facebook page.
Because it made me both laugh and cringe at the same time.
Showing him the Dick in A Box video briefly crossed my mind…
No…
Then I’d have to explain what junk meant too.
(And I’m just kidding about that video, so relax, Judgers).
Several people suggested I tell him it was short for Richard.
Some were joking.
But some were serious.
Some wanted to hear the rest of the conversation.
So here it is.
Me: Where did you hear that?
Number 3: From someone at school.
Me: How did he use it?
Number 3: He said ‘You’re a dick.’
Me:
Number 3: Oh. And he also said, ‘Your dick is so ugly.”
Well, the short-for-Richard route was clearly out of the question.
Me: Dick is another word for penis. It’s not nice. Don’t say it at school. In fact, don’t say it anywhere.
Number 3’s eyes about popped out of his head.
Number 3: I don’t think he knew what it meant, Mom.
Me: Well, now you know. And don’t go explaining it to your friend.
I thought it was the end of the discussion.
I was wrong.
Number 4 hadn’t thrown in her two cents…
Number 4: So girls have a vagina and boys have a dick?
Great.
I may just have them skip the last week of school altogether.
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If it makes you feel any better mine came home from the inlaws and asked what “bitch” meant. My smil gave him the long drawn out version about what some people call women they are mad at….she has some chachki thing with that word on it….and he can read. He didn’t understand wth she was talking about…so I explained to him that its a female dog but some people use it as a swear word.
Does smil stand for super mother in law?
My 6 you girl asked what is Sex? I calmly told her it was the difference between a male and female. Feeling quite confident and even proud of my clever response it was only about 10 seconds before she asked “Well what is Hot Sex?” ugggh Asked where she heard that and of course it was on a movie trailer prior to a G movie that her 1st grade class went to see. Can’t really remember how I answered that one as I was out of sorts.
You should have said, “That’s what Mommy and Daddy had before you came into the picture.”
The boys that I nanny are 4 and 7 and I can’t help but cringe when they bring home new vocabulary from their friends at school. It’s sometimes hard not to laugh at first, but I made that mistake once and then couldn’t get the youngest to stop saying it. Oops!
Ha! Just today I got
“Mom, is the middle finger a swear word?”
Yes…
“Which one is it?”
Me to 4 year old, “This is called a vagina and no one can touch it but mama if I’m helping clean or something.”
4 year old, “Can I touch my own vagina?”
Me, “Ummmm…..”
🙂
Gotta love the new words that children bring home from school. My 12 year old decided one day that he would write curse words on a piece of paper about his teacher. He had no clue what the words meant, he just thought it was a cool thing to do because he heard those new words from school. ugggg. We had to explain that the words he was calling his teacher were not only a bad word but inappropriate in our house.