Going To Have Some Strong Words With Mother

(I’m watching my cousin for my aunt for an hour. I’m 25 and my cousin is five. She’s a bright kid and repeats everything.)

Me: *drops laptop* “Ah, s***.”

Cousin: “S***! S***! S***!”

Me: “No, honey, that’s a bad word and I shouldn’t have said it.”

Cousin: “Oh, okay.”

Me: “If we use bad words then we don’t learn to say what we’re really thinking. I should have said ‘Oh, no, I dropped my laptop! It might be broken! How silly of me!’”

Cousin: *thinks for a few seconds* “Is it a bad word like f***ing?”

Me: “Where the heck did you learn that?”

Cousin: “Mummy says it when she’s driving!”

Me: “That’s a bad word too. We don’t say those words.”

Aunt: *walks in* “What are you two talking about?”

Cousin: “F****** IS A BAD WORD!”