Yesterday on the drive to school I was addressing words and phrases with my son. He was on a “what the heck?!” kick. I told him maybe we could come up with a better one. He naturally questioned why and I tried to explain that even though “heck” isn’t a bad word it is used as a replacement for a swear word so it’s really not a great choice. He snickered and said “What the heck?!” again under breaths of giggles. Ah - reasoning with a five year old.

So I tried a different approach. I gave him some silly examples of made up words and phrases like “Golly Wolly!” and such. He laughed but didn’t want to let go of his precious heck phrase. So I offered “Oh Boy!” explaining how that one phrase can work for every situation and every emotion. Then I proceeded to give examples of all the ways and inflections you could use which led to rolls of laughter from the back seat. While he liked the idea, I could tell as we walked to his playground he still wasn’t completely sold.

So you can visualize my reaction yesterday when I opened his calendar to see a yellow square (stop light theory for behavior) and read the words at the bottom:

“Oh Boy!”

*sigh*

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