My seven year old son came running through the room yelling into his walkie-talkie, “Abort the mission. Abort!”
My five year old daughter’s walkie talkie didn’t have batteries so although she talked into the walkie-talkie she knew she had to stay close enough to hear her brother. “I’m going into the lair,” she yelled.
“No. Abort,” he yelled. “I repeat. Abort!”
She stopped in her tracks. “Dad!” she yelled. “He said a bad word.” (I’m not really sure why she was still talking into her walkie talkie but she was.)
“I didn’t,” he yelled, defending himself.
She insisted he did.
And then comes the moment which I’ve still never figured out how to handle. Trying to get a child who can’t spell to explain to me what the bad word was that someone said. She realized the same situation because she just looked at me confusedly. We were at an impasse.
“I think she means the word “abort,” said the boy.
“Aha,” she yelled and pointed, her eyes wide. “He said it again!”
I told her that “abort” wasn’t necessarily a bad word.
“But what about the March for Life?” she asked.
I explained that aborting babies is bad. Terrible. But aborting a mission is fine, especially when the lair was filled with zombies as seemed to be the case here.
“Oh,” she said.
Over the next two hours I heard the word “abort” screamed into walkie-talkies about 79 times as she delighted in the newfound freedom of a word taken off the bad-word list.
March 12, 2013 at 3:39 pm
The girl is a tattle tale and needs to gtfo. Abortion is not a bad thing at all so leave your kids to make their own decisions.
March 12, 2013 at 3:57 pm
But it's ok to kill your "kids". Children need their parents to teach them the truth, and to respect all human life.
March 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Anonymous, it is sad that you would attack a 5 year old child. May God have mercy on your soul.
March 12, 2013 at 4:41 pm
Just wait till she finds out what the Kennel Club calls female dogs, heh heh heh.
March 12, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Sounds like another example of how the human mind learns. Don't worry everyone, she is not "brainwashing" her children. They are very young, she is doing correct by teaching them, and hopefully, when they get older they will take everything they learned and be independent, autonomous thinkers. Maybe she'll agree with her mother, maybe not.
March 12, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Great Story! Sorry to see your post got marred by a troll.
March 12, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Anonymous, please go troll somewhere else.
March 12, 2013 at 7:39 pm
Kevin,
These guys don't bother me at all. I can't imagine the kind of anger and pain people like that are walking around with to intentionally come to a Catholic site in order to be offended and then offensive.
Pray for them.
March 12, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Anonymous 12:41, I fondly remember the first time I heard my Grandpa yell encouragingly to his hunting dogs to go after the rabbit. Based on my experiences with him to that point, he would never say that word, and there he was yelling it for all at the Kennel Club to hear. There must have been some explanation. I figured it out soon enough but you better believe I never ran around the house yelling it into my walkie-talkie. 🙂