Corin's new word to describe anything he doesn't like is to call it "dirty."
I think it comes from food, where if food falls on the floor or what not we'll say it's dirty and take it away.
Nevertheless, the connotation plays out differently with other objects. If he doesn't want to get dressed then he says clothes are dirty, which makes it sound like we never do laundry. If he doesn't want to go to school it's dirty, which makes it sound like we send him to a pigpen. If he doesn't want to read a particular book it's dirty, which makes it sound like we bought him some sort of smut book. Pretty much we're afraid of letting him speak to anyone until he's past this stage, because there's no way he can't be offensive.
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This makes me laugh. A lot. Yeah, kids have a way of embarrassing their parents--first by their inappropriate use of language and then eventually by their brutal honesty about life as they see it. It should be an interesting ride!
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