Think Again

Part of the fun of speaking Boy is being able to impart your life's experience on your sons.  Maybe not all of it, however.  To that end, anything you may have forgotten to tell the younger ones will undoubtedly be filled in by the older siblings.  As with any training plan, a flaw will occasionally be revealed.

One such crack in this foundation of learning appeared when my youngest son learned to say, "kick your butt," at the ripe old age of two.  Luckily, the source of this knowledge could easily be traced back to his older brother who was two years his senior.  Unfortunately, the trail of guilt did not stop there but continued, instead, directly back to me.  "I kick your butt," was something Ethan knew perfectly well he was not permitted to say.  In spite of this fact, he was determined to locate the exact boundaries of his parents tolerance on the subject.  Having decided that we wouldn't know what he was saying if he disguised the phrase, he put his hypothesis to the test.

"I kick your B," he shouted through a face-splitting grin.

Say that again and I kick your B!  Hmm, perhaps it was this line of thinking that got me into trouble in the first place.  I am reasonably certain that Ashley was ready to kick both of our B's.

- 10 June 2005