What the !#X*%@*# !!

When the five grandchildren began to come along, you’d think congratulatory wishes would be forthcoming, and you would be wrong.

Too often it was a variation on the theme, "You are going to have to clean up your language now,” emphasis on you.

Well, maybe yes, and maybe no. It turned out to be no. I quickly learned you don't need to shield the children, but the parents.

I cuss in front of the parents.
I cuss in front of the children.
I do not cuss at all when the children and the parents are in the same room.

thanks

I want to say how much your gracious responses to A Matter of Space meant to me. They represented the spectrum of adulthood serving to remind me that we are truly more alike than we are different.