My 9 year old son called his 6 year old brother a dick!

Okay, so we were in the grocery store this afternoon after running a bunch of errands, and let me tell you, I was exhausted at this point, towing around three kids who have an endless supply of energy and mischief. Our last stop, the grocery store, and I'm trying to look at the gift cards, wanting to pick one up for my dad for Father's Day since he's coming to my place on Sunday.

I'm looking, and looking, not able to make up my mind, and the kids of course are getting restless. Touching any and everything, bickering. Finally I'm like, okay, let's go, I'll do this tomorrow on my own when I can get J to sit with the kids for a bit.

So my sons are bickering back and forth, you know, the whole "he touched me", or "stop pushing me!" and despite my exhaustion, I must admit, I was pretty calm. That is, until my 9 year old son says "Sylas, you're a DICK!" I stopped what I was doing, turned around face to face with him (since the kid is maybe 4 inches shorter than I am at this point!) and said "WHAT did you just say?!" He paused, his face turns red, and he mumbles that he called him a dick. I'm livid. I say to him, WHERE did you hear something like that?! Knowing full well it wouldn't have been from J or I, since we never say anything at all like that in front of the kids, and knowing that it couldn't have come from any programs he's watched at home, since we're very strict on what they view.

He starts arguing with me, saying "but I didn't hear it anywhere!" And I'm like, okay, you mean to tell me that you call your brother a name and you've never, ever heard someone else say it? To which he sputters again "but I didn't hear it anywhere!"

Well I'm getting mad as heck. I told him that he continued to lie to me, he was going to be in even more trouble. Still, he stuck with his story.

So we're heading out to the parking lot, and I turned to him and said "do you know what that word means?" He looks at me all wide eyed and says no, he didn't. He said he he saw a gift card in the store that said Dick's Sporting Goods, and he just said it.

I couldn't help it. I started laughing. I then told him what it meant to call someone a dick. I told him that he just called his brother a penis. His mouth drops open and then HE starts laughing.

So we get in the car and he says to me "mom, can I ask you a question?" to which I replied yes. He then says "if that word means THAT, why would they name a store with that name?"

That also reminded me of the time, when he was 6 years old and sitting on the couch smiling all big and cute-like, waving his middle finger at me saying "hi mommy!" Of course, he had never seen anything like that at home, but he did see it at school, had no isea whatsoever what it meant of course. I had to explain to him that it was a bad word and not something he should go around doing.

Man, kids, I tell you.

 

i think he knew exactly what he was saying and also found a loophole. you've got a smart one. lucky

 

that's so funny
kids are cute

 

i agree with this guy. I'm sorry dear, but I've never called anyone a 'Dairy Queen' when I was mad at them. You know what I mean?

 

Oh my god, lol, I don't think I've laughed that hard in awhile.

 

Lmao. Thats a story to keep in the family for generations to come

 

Your a burger king.

 

screw you home depot!

 

Parents, seriously

Errr, how about the hundreds of kids he goes to school with.

The others are right, the kid is a couple steps ahead of you

 

So what if he is? It's still a funny story.

 

yep....a FEW steps ahead of you. I'd almost be a little insulted. lol He totally got away with making you seem like a dullard. I don't mean that meanly.

 

And by reacting in that way, all she has taught him is not to say that word in front of mum, didnt him teach not to use the word at all. Now he thinks mum is extra sensitive, kids at school can handle hearing the word, mum cant, so in his head kids at school are more grown up than mum. Kid now becomes the parent shielding mum from such words / concepts.

Thats how it works. Parents may have more life experience yada yada, but a 9 year old learns 3 or 4 times faster than an adult.


Sorry to get all serious, but thats the way it is

 

^^^ holy shit. That was pretty Freudian man, I would have never thought of that but it TOTALLY makes sense. His friends are gonna all be called dicks now and they're gonna laugh their asses off.

 

Oh for goodness sakes, it was supposed to be funny. Ugh.

 

I feel 12 steps ahead because I thought all that "Freudian" stuff was obvious..


OP, sorry I'm a jerk. Funny story though.

 

the title of this post is so cliche...this was already discussed in another thread. Just because someone doesn't have children doesn't mean they don't know how they act or whats good for them. I live with my year 18 month old niece and I take care of her in the same way her parents do. So, I do mama, I have experience with children to answer the rhetorical question that is your post title.

 

Yeah, but you didn't have to come in and be a dick (lol, that wasn't meant to be a pun, but it totally could be) and ruin a perfectly good thread.

 

Well- in the context of this discussion I must specify you're a Dick('s Sporting Goods)

 

Damn!- you beat me to it!

 

I am all-knowing, you know.