Kathy Hanrahan: Potty mouth

She is 2 years old and loves to talk. She talks about her brother, her food, her feet and her shoes. But she has started repeating a certain four-letter word that we'd rather her not scream out at random times. And it's not that she says the "S" word because we know she'll grow out of it if we don't laugh or respond and redirect her to say "shoot" or "shucks" instead. It is more of how she says it.

Before you ask, I didn't teach that to her. It was another family member who slipped up and said it and now my little girl is hooked on it.

I was very shocked when I heard my sweet little toddler say something else last week when she noticed the TV was off. "TV off, What the h@ll?," she kept saying over and over.

Now that's not one of my curse word go-to's either so once again she had to have heard it from someone else. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)

I redirected her to say "what the how?" It was a split second decision and I had to come up with something.

I know my potty mouth toddler will grow out of it, as long as we use better language But it is funny because my son never really said that stuff when he was her age. Maybe we are all just a little more potty-mouthed now? I don't know.