So my teenage daughter and I had a wee skerfuffle today, and she dropped a couple of F-bombs. Not one to let anger get the better of me, I simply replied as follows:
This accomplished a few things: it broke the tension, it gave me the opportunity to teach her the meaning of a couple of new words (linguistic and inarticulate, the latter of which she guessed on her own with some prompting of course), and it allowed me to share a rare bit of wisdom with her: that there are far more intelligent ways of making one’s displeasure known.
Now if only I could practice what I preach :)
