The innocence

I love my children! They have such a sweet innocence about the things of the world. Some people think that we shelter our girls from the world too much. I have to wholeheartedly disagree. Try as I might, we can't shelter them enough from the wickedness of this ol' world. This is a conversation we had on the way home from church Wed. night.

*Names changed to protect the accused*
Rebecca: Mommy, John* was being really bad tonight.
Emily: Yeah, he kept calling people names.
Me: Did Mr. Larry know?
Rebecca: No, we were in the gym.
Me: What did he do? (Knowing how disrespectful this child really is, nothing shocks me.)
Rebecca: He kept calling people bad names. He called me the "s" word.
Emily:Yeah, he kept calling me the "b" word.
Rebecca: And David* is his best friend. He likes him a lot. He kept calling him the "d" word.
Me: Well, you should have told Mr. Larry.
Rebecca: He fussed at him in class and told him that if he didn't behave, he'd have to stay in the classroom while we went in the gym.
Emily: Yeah, he was good then. But then he started to call people names after class.

In my 8 and 6 year old children's language, the "b" word was butt. The "s" word is stupid and the "d" word is dumb. They have absolutely no clue that there are other words out there that people use that is more foul than those 3 words there. Oh, except for the "c" word --crap-- I like it that was. Even when we are out in public and they might hear the occasional foul word from a stranger, they don't have a clue as to what it might be. It is simply not in their vocabulary. Ya know, I like it like that.