28
Nov
Kids are Sponges
“Little kids are sponges.”
You hear it all the time, and it’s true. My son’s vocabulary increases every day, and most of what he’s learning he gets right from Mom and Dad, such as his first “curse” word, the relatively innocuous “dammit!” Needless to say, we’ve had to become a lot more careful about the words we use. It’s a bit of a pain.
But there’s a flip side to that coin. Sure, he parrots a lot of stuff we don’t even realize we’ve said around him, or don’t necessarily want him to be saying, but we can also train him to provide some entertainment. For example…
![“Come at the [Throne], You Best Not Miss…”](https://i0.wp.com/dadandburied.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/aiden_gillan_the_wire_game_of_thrones.jpg?resize=500%2C233&ssl=1)