miseducation

I was reading richard scarry's please and thank you book to my toddler the other day and as usual, she likes to point out the cats, pigs, rabbits, bears etc in the pictures. Then suddenly she said loudly "Fock!"

"What did you say Amani?" I asked, thinking bloody hell of all the words I may have said in front of her, I'm pretty sure the F- word never came up aloud unless she's been reading my mind.

"Fock!" she exclaimed happily again.

Shit, shit, shit, I think, how the bloody hell am I going to explain this to her preschool?

"What's fock Amani?" I ask.

"Theeeeere," she looked at me like I'm an idiot, as she pointed to a picture of a fox.

"Oooh, foxxxxxx" I stress the "xxxx" until spit spews out of my mouth.

"Yes, fockkkkkkk" she repeats.

Aaaargh!!!!! So I tell her, feeling really guilty as I do it as I'm purposely teaching her a wrong thing. "Why don't we just call it "fos" for the moment ok?"