Today I called our khadama from her room, (she was having her mid-afternoon nap/coffee/tea break).
As I shouted her name (I live at the opposite end of the house), shouting was a must in the situation as Oodie was in the bath and couldn’t be left alone. Anyway, as I shouted/called her name, my son turned to me and said, ‘mummy, don’t shout at *****’ (khadama’s name). I said, ‘I’m not shouting at her Oodie, ‘I’m calling her because (reason) you silly billy’.
His reply was, ‘no mummy you shout I heard you, don’t shout ok mama? Good mama, don’t be a silly billy for goodness sake’….
Now all of it was funny but the silly billy and the goodness sake really doubled me over.
He really is my wee parrot. Got to be extra careful what I say around him. El7umdella, my mother and father never used bad language around me as a child and I would never around my kids. We say things like ‘I’m angry’, ‘oh sugar’, ‘oops a daisies’, ‘jimmy cricket’, ‘oh my cow’…. As parents we learn to word things very carefully around our kids. It’s one of the techniques that we learn as parents very quickly. I have had to ask the khadama to be extra, extra careful- she ‘oh sugars’ a lot now….
