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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have a terrible admission to make here...
No...I'm not an eleven-year troll on this site. No, I didn't vote for Nixon once. No, everything I've posted here is true to my knowledge and beliefs...
My child's first word which she read out loud was "Trump".
My mother of blessed memory lived down in the Atlantic City area in Ventnor Heights. One day when my kid was almost 2, we were driving down the Atlantic City Expressway and intended to exit at Exit 2 which leads to Route 40/322...BUT there was an accident on the ramp so we were forced to take the road into Atlantic City. There, at the base of the expressway was Trump Plaza with the trademark huge sign on the side of the building. My kid, who knew the alphabet well by that time saw the sign and proclaimed "Trump!!"
I almost lost control of the car. I asked my wife, "That ever happen before today?" Her glum response, "No. It hasn't."
And so it began..."it" being my political education of my child, all the while knowing the secret of that day.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)The first time I saw her read aloud something on the tv screen: Terry Bradshaw.
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)I won't tell anyone. I promise!
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)You did disown her, right?
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Hers, at least, can be written off as completely innocent; the action of a toddler.
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)PCIntern
(25,556 posts)although some have accused me...
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)people seem to be taking comments in ... running them through their filter ... allowed the words to bounce around in their heads ... they responding to what they think the other person was implying ... between the lines.
ETA: But at least you didn't Alert on it!
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)was targeting certain individuals....
It's funny...in 11 years I don't think I've alerted on 10 posts. I have to be sputteringly angry to do that....and that takes a lot AFAIC.
Keep the Faith!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)both instance indicated the post had already been alerted on and "Name Removed" showed up.
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)(French for chatterbox), while she wailed upon him for teasing her, only she did not say bavard.
Mom pokes her head around the corner and says "Okay, stop teaching her French!" and we all broke out laughing.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I didn't say 'shit' until I was at least 6 or 7!
July
(4,750 posts)According to my mother. Apparently, she burned herself while ironing, yelped "shit!," and then had to listen to me saying "shit, shit, shit," for a while.
Kind of hard to believe that I didn't try mama or dada before, though.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)returning home, at giving birth to me.
She got home and my sister was playing with some block. She'd stack them up as high as she could get them and when they toppled over, she'd stand up, throw up her hands in sheer disgust, stomp her foot and say, "sh!t" ... loudly!
Mama 1SBM was aghast.
Turns out my sister spent the day before watch Daddy 1SBM "fixing" our washing machine.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Dump Trump not your daughter
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)PCIntern
(25,556 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,289 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Imagine my parents embarrassment when i, upon seeing a tractor outside, jumped up in the middle of a crowded restaraunt and yelling "Crapper Crapper!!!"
Not as embarrassing as having one's own child's first word being Trump, but close.[/font]
madokie
(51,076 posts)that is all
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Clear as a bell and bright as day.
First time she put letters together out loud. Almost crashed the car, too, her mom and I were laughing so hard.
She was probably a little older, around 3, but she was reading by age 4.
Can't think of a prouder moment, helping a child read.
Congratulations on being a father, PCIntern!
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)Getting a doctorate now all these years later: I have some stuff that I have been sitting on for a while but cannot say anything about but will when I get 'permission'.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)lostnfound
(16,184 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)The part in question starts at 4:18.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)with enough disgust, you may keep her.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)let out a trump the other day that would have startled a dead man.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)(came out "Oh sit" . My wife accidently let that slip one day when she knocked a coke off the table. He spent the rest of the day knocking his cars off the table while saying "oh sit". So, it looks like my grandson's and your child's first words were synonyms
MisterP
(23,730 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)PCIntern
(25,556 posts)I don't like what happened to the kid...
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)Terrific stuff....love this place.