Starting from (Mrs) Scratch

1. 9
   Feb
   

   Loss of Control

   Surprisingly, this post isn’t about Scratch Jr…although he is still safe and sound in my belly. 

   On my way home from work yesterday, I called Scratch to let him know I’d left. He had picked up Miss Scratch from daycare and I asked how she was doing. “Good”, he said. “She also learned a new phrase: Oh my God”. “God as in G-O-D”, I asked. Yep. My child says “Oh my God”…and I don’t know if she learned it at daycare, but they thought it was the cutest thing.

   Now, I am not religious but I don’t know if I feel comfortable having my 17 month old child saying that. Scratch doesn’t really see anything wrong with it, but I’m pretty sure it’s not proper to say. So, all night whenever she would say this new phrase we would try and correct her to “Oh my gosh”. That’s better, right? Sometimes she would say that…most mostly she would still say God.

   My loss of control comes in when she goes to daycare. When I dropped her off today, the first thing her caretaker asked was, “Did you hear her say ‘Oh my God’?” I know that there little control that I have with what she learns at daycare. And I know that my correcting her at night is going to prove irrelevant because the next day they will laugh and smile when she says the other version…but still it kills me.

   Am I overreacting? I mean it’s not like she’s cussing and she really doesn’t know what she’s saying.

   Thoughts?

   And because I couldn’t let another post go by without any pictures…

               

                          

   -J
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