Fossil brain.
Noodle puss.
Bum.
Dumb.
Toilet.
Diaper Area.
Since Seth was three he's had an ongoing and ever-growing "Rude Word Collection" that he recites with glee and updates with an earnest dedication - most recently when we were reading this Berenstain Bear book (sidenote: my brother and I collected these when we were little and I only just discovered that they now have their own online world which is a terrifying yellow).
Anyway, experts tell us that when kids swear, they are imitating us (in which case, I'm glad that the most x rated of the rude words is just stupid) and that the way to stop it is to offer alternatives) - which we do. But there is something to seeing the sheer pleasure of a little person saying what to them is a rude word.
It's pure joy and the discovery of the power of words, just not in the way you might have hoped.
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