Censoring censorship

Maybe it's due to the weather warming up. Maybe now, kids are coming off of a winter, locked in their homes with older potty-mouthed siblings. Or maybe the kids' parents don't have kid-dar like I do and cuss like sailors in front of their kids fluently while being locked up in the house during a good Omaha Winter.

Now, it seems, when it rains, it pours with daily with issues like what we now refer to as naughty poop, that 6-year olds don't use the word "sexy", and now this.

Max and Lucy's dialogue is fun to just sit and listen to. Ricardo and I have been waking up to the hillarity of 6-year-old conversation lately. I was trying to get my fix, and listen in one afternoon, when I noticed, it was pretty muffled. Then a pause in the conversation, and then Max comes flying around the corner,

"MOM! SOPHIA RAISED HER MIDDLE FINGER IN SCHOOL TODAY, AND THAT MEANS SHE HATES GOD. BECAUSE AUBREY SAID SO!"

Whoa, whoa, whoa...Mommy raises her middle finger all the time, and she loves God very much.

Or what I really did was I explained what flipping someone off means: It's a really mean and silly way to say you hate someone. Thankfully, they both gasped at the thought of using the word "Hate" so they haven't been desensitized completely to all their new found knowledge of cuss words and now, a new level - sign language.

And then I explained (being the awesome Master of Arts in Communication that I am) that it's better to talk it out, and use good words than to flip someone off. Then I explained that hating God and disrespecting God's wishes is not a good choice. And that when someone is mean to another human being it makes God sad, but it's not because they hate God per se. What I'm getting at is, I kept talking until their eyes begged me to stop.

As soon as I could pause to take a breath - and I can go a very long time - Lucy asked if she could have a popsicle and Max asked if I would come outside to play baseball. Yes and yes.

I'm getting pretty good at this.

That's how I roll.