Readers who haven’t spent much face time with me may not realize that my wholesome online persona is merely a facade. Though I rarely use blue language in my writing, in my everyday life I swear like a sailor. This inevitably rubs off on my children, with results that are sometimes mortifying, sometimes entertaining.<\/p>\n
This evening after dinner, Olof, Helena, and I were sitting around the table chatting. Tage was sitting in Olof’s lap, chattering on and on about who-knows-what and Helena and I were discussing important social issues. Our conversation wasn’t of much interest to Olof, apparently, and he tried to divert our attention.<\/p>\n
“Listen to what Tage has to say about that,” he told us.<\/p>\n
We stopped talking and turned to Tage, who–bouncing up and down with barely controlled glee–declared, “Dinosaurs are fuckers! Dinosaurs are fuckers! Dinosaurs are fuckers!”<\/p>\n
I have no problem stepping up and taking responsibility for his use of the F-bomb, but I can’t in good conscience let slide his assessment of the mighty terrible lizards. I think we’ll have to give that boy a good talking-to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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