Originally Posted by Tam

Oh yes I would nip this one. It's cute now, but when he gets just a bit older, it won't be so cute and will get him kicked out of school and other places. In some places that is considered sexual harassment and some little girl's mom and dad will force that issue hard. It's sad, but very true.

My oldest son was about 4 and we lived down the road from the sweetest little black boy, he was 12 and he'd come and play with the kids a lot.... he thought my son was the coolest kid and he'd tell him he could call him the n word... seemed harmless at the time, and it was an endearing thing between them. I kept telling that boy not to promote that because it would be a problem later. When my son was about 5, he was sitting by the window and the window was open.... a black man was walking down the sidewalk and my son yells out the window "Hey what up my n*****" and that guy didn't think it was so damn funny. I grabbed Larkin and ran him out the front door and made him apologize and explained to the guy why this happened and he ended up laughing, but it could have been very very bad for him later on. The guy turned out to be the Uncle of my kids friend and he had a talk with him as well. Kids are so innocent and mean no harm sometimes, but those learned behaviors we think are so funny when they are little can get them into trouble later.

I don't mean to throw a damper on the fun times here, but be careful what you laugh at when they are babies.

My oldest daughter used to cuss like a sailor all the time and my husband and his band thought it was the cutest damn thing, until we were in a grocery store one night when church let out and all of them came into the store we were in. I don't need to tell you of the looks and remarks I got when my 2 1/2 yr old was declaring, "I don't want that shit, it sucks, I want the fucking chicken nuggets". rotfl