Advice from Grade Two

It has been a quiet weekend.  This is mostly because it has rained consistently all weekend.  I was all excited that I would have a whole day on Saturday to do the yard.  Levi was spending the day at Ty's playing and I could do the yard.  After getting started with a few hours on Friday, I thought it could all be done.  No such luck of course.  Now it all just looks half finished.  Ah well, I shall look at that for a week before there is a chance that I can fix it.  What I did get done was Levi's room!

Today it still rained.  We had a quiet day at home as the causeway was up and I didn't want to go too far from home.  Unfortunately it will be down again tomorrow, taking away both Levi's and my excuses to have another quiet one.  As we were chatting at one point today, we had a very funny conversation:

"Mum, I know all the words that you can't say at school"

"Really! Who told you?"

"A Grade Twoer, who used to be a Grade Oner last year in After School Care"

"What are the words you can't say?"

"Well there is a 'B' word and two 'P' words"

( Now you can imagine where my mind goes from here!)

Then he says, "You can't say 'butt' or 'pee' and you aren't allowed to say 'p***s', but I am not sure what else to call it if I get hurt in my p***s"

I nearly laughed here, because my 'B' word was very different as were my 'P' words.

Then he came up with the best line of all:

"The worst word is the 'F' word, you really can't say that"

I then asked him what that word was and he leaned closer and with a conspiratorial whisper said;

"I don't know but I think it might be 'fart'

Oh to be five again and get solid advice from a kid a couple of years older and yet not really understand that advice.  That said I am also inordinately grateful that his 'F' word was not the one that I suspect he has actually heard before.  (Not from his perfect mother of course, but someone else!)