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ORIGINAL: VirginPotty

Go ahead, give me your best shot!

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ORIGINAL: VirginPotty

Don't you mean, with-ath??

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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead

(I love it when the posse's work is successful.) 

I hate it when I have to go outside and be the Village Maternal Badass.  Thing 1 came inside, seething, because  neighbor kid kept using the "n" word on some of the other kids, then bolted back out.  I had to make a beeline out the door and when I got outside, Thing 1 was standing over top of the brat, who was on the ground, (didn't ask how he got there), with the other kids watching as he yelled at him.  I moved Thing 1 out of the way, yelled at him for intimidating the brat, helped the brat up, and spent the next 10 minutes "schooling" him and his older brother in the fine art of who's the bigger badass when you're going to get your butt kicked for talking that way.  By the time I was done fussing and explaining how hateful and wicked the word is, and what would happen if they say it around people who won't be so passive as the younger kids, the younger one was crying.  It was good that he felt bad.  Both of them were worried because I told them that hate speech laws worked on Things as well as adults.  They apologized and I seriously think they will check they're tongues when they are anywhere in the neighborhood because I told all the other Things to let me know if they heard the brats say it again, because I'd be making some calls. 

You know, with all the single mommies in my neighborhood, we can't be everywhere at once.  So, it really does take a village, and I'm not afraid of being the Village Correctional Officer.

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ORIGINAL: mc1234

Ah, I can relate, Daddysredhead ... my 7yo told me this morning that the tooth fairy's looked an awful lot like mine ... sigh.  I changed the subject, but waffled between telling her the truth or not.