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Did my mom really just say "mamalicious"? She really did.
After the news broke all over the blogosphere today that some expectant fathers are having “dadelor” parties, more than a few bloggers were a little non-plussed with the idea. I was one of them.
Jezebel takes it a step further and calls for a stop to the word “dadelor” itself. Not just “dadelor”. The entire genre of “mom” and “dad” modified words. Let’s call them “mamapropisms”. They didn’t, but they wouldn’t. They want us to stop playing with words this way.
Stop your assault on the English language, Jezebel says. No more “momgasms” when your kid does something awesome. No more Momalicious, Mombian, or Momocrats. They didn’t even get around to critiquing “momoirs”, but we get the drift.
Sorry, Jezebel.
You’re going to have to give us “mommybloggers” this one.
At the risk of sounding old, I will admit that I don’t even understand why kids text each other all the time. It seems like a waste of time that accomplishes little more than to give one the appearance of being popular and in demand.
Looking important may be part of the appeal, but teens also like the ability to communicate with each other anytime, anywhere. But the acronyms and slang terms they use when texting aren’t designed just to save time and keystrokes. They are also meant to keep parents from knowing exactly what they are talking about. Continue reading »
At some point, nearly every parent has the agonizing and possibly amusing experience of seeing their small child pour forth an obscenity. Her Bad Mother shares a hilarious account of coming up against this with her own five-year-old, who reasoned that if she met someone whose name is F***, she should be allowed to use the word to call them by their proper name.
I’ve had my own run-ins with kids and cursing, most memorably when my toddler turned my own foul language into a song.
These things can be hilarious, but they’re also a real social problem. No one wants a kid who curses uncontrollably. So what can you do?
While the mean girls are ruling the playground, some of their mamas seem to have a potty-mouth problem.
Browsing through MomLogic the other day, my eye caught this gem of a headline: “Are You Raising A Future D-Bag?”
That can’t, I thought, mean what I think it means. Sadly, it did. MomLogic ran an article encouraging us to ponder whether or not our kids were growing up be douchebags. Really.
At the age of fourteen, McKay Hatch was fed up with his classmate’s potty mouths. They were, he says, cussing like sailors on a regular basis and most weren’t even aware they were doing it. He issued a challenge to his trash-talking peers and, to his surprise, they accepted.
This was the beginning of the No Cussing Club at South Pasadena High School in California. The idea caught on and today the club boasts of thousands of members around the world, all who have taken the No Cussing Challenge. Continue reading »
My daughter claims that she’s not left-handed; she says she’s “both-handed”. It’s not true, of course; she’s primarily left-handed. But if she were ambidextrous, according to a new study, she would be more likely to have mental health problems, language difficulties, and other academic issues. In addition, ambidextrous teens are twice as likely to have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their right-handed peers and more severe as well. So, does that mean my daughter is going to be okay?
Newborns seem to be getting smarter and smarter by the minute. First, fetuses learn how to distinguish external sounds during the last trimester; then infants start sending explicit messages with their cries; and now, we discover that babies are born with regional accents. Continue reading »
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