Words to strike fear
Nigel’s voice lilts down the stairs from the bathroom. A sweet voice, a happy, cheerful, sing-song voice:
“Maaary! There’s shit all over the tooooi-let!”
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A childcare provider is expected to be a superhuman mix of the Madonna and Mary Poppins, ever patient, loving, kind, always delighting in the sweetness of her charges. I don’t do such a bad job, all in all, and it’s far more likely the parents than the children who strain my sanity most days. But I’m here to tell you: It’s Not ALL Mary Poppins…
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So very glad I’d set my coffee down and swallowed before I read this one. Reading about your zipper was funny enough. This would have ruined my keyboard.
And you replied?
Like Kittenpie said, what was your reply?!
Phrase of the day yesterday from my toddler. “Pee is coming! Pee is coming!” followed by a family dash to the bathroom.
“Maaary! There’s shit all over the tooooi-let!”
Bahahahahaha, somehow I think it would be a relief that he didn’t say, “poop” or use some other child-friendly pseudonym.
In such a situation it seems even a toddler knows you (as in the one responsible for cleaning it up) don’t want it dumbed down.
What I replied was exceedingly un-family-friendly, and shall not be repeated here. It was also said exceedingly sotto voce, too, not to worry. The little sh… sweetie didn’t hear me.
And in fact, when I got up there, it wasn’t bad at all. Just one teeny 1-inch racing stripe on one side of the seat. The work of 20 seconds to clean and disinfect.
Phew.
We managed to wean “shit” off the preschooler’s vocab (he knew the exclamatory meaning, not the literal). But he’s intimately familiar with “skids”.