I hate, hate, HATE censoring anything. It goes against everything I believe in. But sometimes, even innocent things can come back and bite you in the hindquarters.
Eldest was having a tough time with her Physics homework last night. Son is a wiz when it comes to that, so he decided to help her. While he was explaining to her things like velocity and acceleration and a tree that apparently a car hit, she sighed and said, “This is why I don’t like Physics.”
Whereupon the Sage of Casa de Aggie says this:
“You don’t have to like it. You have to conquer it! You have to drive a stake through it’s heart and pluck it from it’s chest and eat it while it’s still beating! That’s what you have to do to physics! You have to make it your little–well, you know what I’m saying.”
I have to admit, that was pretty cool of me to say. And I did manage to censor myself before I said something totally inappropriate in front of the kids. Still, I had gained some coolage brownie points with my kids, who usually see me as a fuddy duddy, stuffy old bat.
Yesirree Bob, I was cool!!
Cool enough for my Eldest to put that on her status at Facebook. GAH!!!
I hope no one judges me too harshly. Coolage brownie points still count for something!
October 19th, 2011 at 6:29 AM
Slay physics, and hear the lamentation of its women!
October 19th, 2011 at 7:37 AM
Oh please – if they drive in the car with you, I am sure they have heard worse 😉
October 19th, 2011 at 8:05 AM
I will take any cool points I can get at this point!
As for self-censoring… it is the only acceptable kind!
I, personally, do not cuss very frequently, but I don’t have an issue with others using whatever words they choose, (as long as it isn’t in front of my kid!)
Aggie is such a cool mom!
PS_- I met Red Beard in high school physics class. He helped me with my homework and 25 yrs later he is still here!
October 19th, 2011 at 8:13 AM
watching my tongue is not my strong suit either. sure is cool to be cool in the eyes of our children though!
October 19th, 2011 at 8:24 AM
You have a bright future as a motivational speaker, Aggie. 😀
October 19th, 2011 at 8:40 AM
The older you get, the cooler you become in your kids’ eyes. The best part is when you write on their FB pages when they are away at college and all of their FRIENDS say that you are a cool mom, too 😛
October 19th, 2011 at 8:55 AM
f = m a ?
October 19th, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Learning to curb my tongue while driving was one of the hardest things I did when I became a parent.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:45 AM
About the only time I’m cool in my *Princess’ eyes, these days, is when she’s at school and sees a rising column of smoke in the distance and she says to her friends “See that? That’s my dad setting the woods on fire.”
*Note: She’s 13, so the robot moon-walking and/or slow-mo break dancing moves I do in stores/fast food joints/gas stations, etc. don’t seem funny to her anymore. I still do it, just to irritate the Hell out of her. 😀
October 19th, 2011 at 11:21 AM
You do a much better job of self-censoring than I do. And I’ve always thought you were an awesome cool mom. Bravo on the motivational speech! You do have a way with words. 😀
BTHO Physics!!!
October 19th, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Gee, make physics my….something. Never thought of it that way.
October 19th, 2011 at 2:15 PM
I just KNEW you would say something, LtC 😉
October 19th, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Yeah, but I had my squelch turned up real high.
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October 19th, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Hey, that was great parenting. Heavy lifting, delivered off the cuff. Bravo!
October 19th, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Coolage Brownie Points are worth far more than any embarrassment required to get them–The First Rule of Acquisition.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:21 PM
fixit jr still thinks I’m cool, but he’s only not yet 11. Figure I still have a few more years before that changes… lol.
October 20th, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Good job on the coolage points. May the (M x a) be with you.