Seriously? My nearly 9-year-old wants to know this? Okay, how are you going to handle this one, Big Daddy?
I took a deep breath,
and told her the truth
geared for a child.
She's heard some kids at school call each other that word and she wanted to know what it was. Understandable. I'm glad she had the guts to ask me. I'm glad I had the guts to tell her. She agreed that it is not a nice word and that we don't use it. I also told her that the act of douching is not healthy or natural and that our bodies clean themselves.
Now she knows and knowing is half the battle.
I took a deep breath,
and told her the truth
geared for a child.
She's heard some kids at school call each other that word and she wanted to know what it was. Understandable. I'm glad she had the guts to ask me. I'm glad I had the guts to tell her. She agreed that it is not a nice word and that we don't use it. I also told her that the act of douching is not healthy or natural and that our bodies clean themselves.
Now she knows and knowing is half the battle.
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One of the best early SNL skits:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79tdouchebag.phtml
My question is how did we arrive at calling people douche bags? I don't really understand how that became an insult.
"Heh, heh, he said douchebag, heh, heh."
"Shut. Up."
"I think he just did a google for douchebag."
"Shut. Up."
"It ain't the best, it ain't even funny."
"Will. You. Please. Shut. Up!"
"Go take a long walk off a short pier."
"Mom!"
Although a completely appropriate term for really good friends to label one another, the situation gets a little hinky when kids get involved. That's why I am not allowed to speak in the house
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