See No Evil Hear no Evil Speak No Evil MonkeysWhat comes out of a child’s mouth, he heard it from the parents, and the people in his immediate surrounding.

Normally I do not swear and resort only on one bad word - punyeta (i don’t even know what this means exactly!) - when I’m really pissed but i don’t usually direct it at a particular person at any given time. BUT, i say punyeta a lot in my mind, but that is a different story. He he.

I grew up in a home where bad words - mura - has not been directed at any of us, however angry me made our parents. My father just used the PI word only to himself.

Here in bicol, there are many variations to the bad S-O-B/ P-I word. If you do not know the meaning (unless it’s the spanish version h-d-p), sometimes they are pleasing to the ear, you’d think they were just expressions.

Imagine my dismay when i heard Raine say most of those h-d-p variations, on separate occassions?! There was one time when I had to “extract” from him who he heard say such word. He was hesitant for a while, but then eventually confessed  -no, not under torture, but under heavy interrogation. He he. (The culprit was one of the older kids in the neighborhood!)

How do you tell a young kid not to use bad words? Raine wouldn’t have known those were bad words until I told him so. It is really difficult, unless we are living in a sound-proof, non-transparent box. Anyway, I just told Raine that he cannot use such words because they’re bad and that I don’t even use them and nobody in our house uses them.