Nerdler and I both learned a lesson about semantics today. In an effort to keep her germs somewhat contained, I allowed her to take her laptop into her room to watch TV in bed. I have parental controls set on the machine, but things break through occasionally. She’s watching some video and one of the guys says, “shit!”
I go to her room and say, “Nerdler, turn that off. You’re not allowed to watch anything with bad words or violence.”
She says, “it’s not violent and nobody said a bad word!”
I say, “I just heard the s-word! You can’t argue with me when I heard the bad word myself.”
She turns off the video but looks at me extremely confused. She says, “I really didn’t hear a bad word.”
I know she heard it. And it upsets me that she’s lying to my face. I say, “dude, you know it’s inappropriate for kids your age to hear or say bad words.”
She’s getting upset now, too and says, “yeah, but they didn’t say any words I don’t like! I’m not lying! They didn’t!”
I pause. Now I’m confused. “Nerdler, do you know what a bad word is?”
“Yes! It’s a word that’s bad to me to hear!”
Oh.
“Give me an example.”
“Um… onion. Spider. Bedtime.”
Oh my god.
“Do you know when I say ‘bad word’ it’s the same as ‘swear word’? Do you know what those are?”
Her eyes get huge. She covers her mouth. “Oh my god, he said the s-word!”
“Yes. You’re not allowed to watch videos with those kinds of words.”
And suddenly, we both reached enlightenment.
hahaha OMG, kids are awesome!!!!
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