Joseph, at school the other day, was working with a lesson where the child has an ending sound -- such as "at" -- and has to make as many words as he can that end in that sound -- such as "fat," "cat," "hat," and so on.
Except that Joseph's ending sound was "it."
You can see where this is going.
Sure enough, when the teacher checked his work, one of his words was "shit." She okayed the rest of his work and quietly informed him that "shit" is not a word. But Joseph likes to be right. He insisted (I imagine quite loudly) that yes, "shit" IS a word. No, she said, it's not. Yes, he continued to insist, it is. As she told him one last time (ever so calmly and coolly as only a Montessori teacher can do) that "shit" is not a word, he told her, "Yes, shit is a word! My mom and Dad say it all the time!"
Crazy thing is, we don't. Ever.
But I don't think his teacher believed me when I told her that.
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