aiden is somewhat like a parrot... aside from imitating some radiohead songs that i tend to listen to too much, yesterday, out of nowhere, he started singing the beatles. "i wanna hold your hand." lynn and i thought it was funny, cute. with the attention he got from us, he tried to modify the lyrics. he sang: "i wanna hold your pupu."
we have this on again off again policy of cracking down on "inappropriate words." my friend kendall (fan of george carlin) will likely have a field day with this, but... i think that certain words, like pupu or dodo, are okay depending upon context. i mean, it's not like they don't have those things in their lives... pupu-head or dodo-head are wrong, simply because they are ALWAYS pejorative. so too, ironically, are common use words like "stupid" or- (and this is much harder to enforce) words like "kill" or even "shoot." i know some parents will think we're ridiculous- and it's not like we're naive about our control over where they learn language... i suppose we just want to teach them to have a certain awareness of CONTEXT with regards to how they use their language. and right now, we would like them to speak to others with respect.
ANYWAY, so we have that policy. and lynn was pretty good at highlighting to aiden that maybe that wasn't so appropriate. but me, i just started cracking up. i really couldn't help myself. don't know why, not like it was very funny or anything. maybe it was the image of it, particularly in that "nice" beatles song. maybe because, at certain points (like on maui) i actually DID hold his poop in my hands... but i guess in yesterday's instance anyway, i kind of undermined the whole "pupu" thing...
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