Do you really know any kids who have asked what “pee” stands for?

Probably not, but I don’t put anything past my three year old. Then again, he’s the one who announced a successful potty training exercise with “Mommy, mommy, I crapped in the can!” so maybe not a good example.

And now she tells me not to worry about what she sees or hears on TV or in the movies. At 13, she says she’s heard it all at school. From my time spent in the carpool line watching the middle-schoolers walk by, I’ve heard some of the worst language I’ve ever heard. I wonder what else she’s getting immune to?

Do you really know any kids who have asked what “pee” stands for? Most kids I know have accepted that as its own stand-alone word. For me, the point is a movie supposed to be rated G, as in no prima facie (is that correct usage?) offenses against the generally accepted norms for children. “Piss” is not among those norms. True, it’s up to me what my kids watch and I don’t depend on ratings to make those decisions, but when it’s something you can’t even hear in the normal playing of the film and only pops up when you put on the captions … ? How do deaf parents feel about that, I wonder?

Meanwhile the Bean wonders, this morning, “Why didn’t you put on the captions?”

Scandalous.