I loathe it when the short people* try to order me around.
I was a babysitter for years before I had children and the little screams of "MILK!!" or "Give me _____!" drove me bananas. So pretty much from birth, we've worked on "please," "thank you" and "wait your turn."
Elliot is pretty good about it all and is starting to have nice little manners.
But for the past few months, he's been saying "How are you doing?", which sounds an awful lot like "How you doin'?"
I'll say "Fine, thank you," then ask him how he's doing and he'll say "Yeh."
It drives me bananas.**
So we talked about how a much nicer answer is "Fine, thank you." And he's been pretty good with it.
He gets the reasoning and the appropriate time to use the phrase, but lately he's been a little off in his elocution. *** And it's fine with me because I talk to him all the time and understand almost everything that he says. It all sounds pretty normal to my ears.
This morning, as I'm making Elliot's breakfast,**** Husband is walking through the kitchen as he's getting ready to leave for work.
Elliot says, "Mama, how you doing?"
I reply, "Fine, thank you," then I ask him how he's doing and he replies.
Husband starts laughing and asks if I am listening.
Apparently, to the untrained ear, Elliot's reply doesn't sound so much like "Fine, thank you" as it does "F@#@ you."
Oh well.
*By this I mean children, not midgets with bad manners.
I was a babysitter for years before I had children and the little screams of "MILK!!" or "Give me _____!" drove me bananas. So pretty much from birth, we've worked on "please," "thank you" and "wait your turn."
Elliot is pretty good about it all and is starting to have nice little manners.
But for the past few months, he's been saying "How are you doing?", which sounds an awful lot like "How you doin'?"
I'll say "Fine, thank you," then ask him how he's doing and he'll say "Yeh."
It drives me bananas.**
So we talked about how a much nicer answer is "Fine, thank you." And he's been pretty good with it.
He gets the reasoning and the appropriate time to use the phrase, but lately he's been a little off in his elocution. *** And it's fine with me because I talk to him all the time and understand almost everything that he says. It all sounds pretty normal to my ears.
This morning, as I'm making Elliot's breakfast,**** Husband is walking through the kitchen as he's getting ready to leave for work.
Elliot says, "Mama, how you doing?"
I reply, "Fine, thank you," then I ask him how he's doing and he replies.
Husband starts laughing and asks if I am listening.
Apparently, to the untrained ear, Elliot's reply doesn't sound so much like "Fine, thank you" as it does "F@#@ you."
Oh well.
*By this I mean children, not midgets with bad manners.
**Not only for the "Yeh," but also for the Jersey Shore-ness of it all.
***He's still little, not quite two. So he still has a little trouble with some of the pronunciations.
****Putting waffles in the toaster.
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