PARENTS, TAKE NOTE:
Your children are ALWAYS listening. Oh, they act like they aren't..but they really are. Behind that Dr. Suess book they act like they're reading- they're really listening. When playing their Nintendo DS- they're really listening. When watching The Wizards of Waverly Place- they're listening. They have supersonic hearing that starts at birth and grows in sensitivity as they enter "tween-hood"...
Let me use an example and let you decide if you change your mind about watching what you say around the kiddos..
We love taking the kids to Pita Jungle. Great, healthy, menu with lots of choices. The staff is friendly, the place clean and the food comes almost instantaneously. Part of enjoying our food is squeezing the Sriracha chili sauce on everything. The bottle is dark red with a green spout and rooster on the bottle. Because I can't seem to ever pronounce 'sriracha' correctly, I always privately joke about calling it "cock sauce" because of the rooster on the label.
Unbeknownst to me, Mia would continually hear me refer to the tasty sauce in this manner. She loves the hot sauce and is actually the one at the table that uses it the most. Well, on a recent outing to Pita Jungle she decided to order for herself:
"Could I please have the pita with chicken and a side of spinach? Oh, and could I please get some cock sauce?"
Umm, yeah...
Just so you know, the correct pronunciation for Sriracha is SEE-rah-chah...and the whole family now knows how to say it.
And remember, the kids are ALWAYS listening!
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