"Boring".
(Didn't see that coming did ya? :P)
Tristin, the 4 year old, said "It's boring here." as we were pulling up to the house after grocery shopping. "SAY WHAT?!" He had no clue what it meant but he understood concept behind it, kind of. I think he was just repeating what he heard from someone else. He couldn't really give me an answer.
I talked to all three of them, right there in the driveway (well Ethan listened because he was strapped in with no means of escape). I explained to them what boring meant and asked him again if he thought our house was boring. "No." Okay then little ones, don't say that it is.
I'm not particularly upset that now they know the word where they previously (blissfully) didn't. We made it to 6 and 4 years old, with outside influences. That's a pretty good run. Learning is part of life, good, bad and ugly. They are open to a whole world, of kids and adults of various ages. Of course they are going to pick up things that we, as parents, would rather them not but it also gives us the opportunity to talk with them about such things.
Them saying they are bored is really the least of my problems in a life with offspring but it has started that slippery slope of all the worst things. Hopefully I have a few more years before I have to handle those things. For now I'm going to enjoy their naive innocence while it lasts.
Boring and all the variations of the word are not allowed to be said though. :P
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gasp!! no way! i remember when i was a tutor, the students were saying that all the time. i think kids are too overwhelmed by stuff at a young age now, and they can't use their imagination to come up with things to do, so they are "bored". back when we were little, i don't remember kids saying that at all. when we were bored, we went to find something to do.
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