I Hang My Head Down In Shame

My ghetto three year old calls his sister “Shorty.”
I know because I heard my daughter in the other room saying “Stop calling me Shawdee!”

11 comments

  1. When exactly did they become so ghetto? I remember one day when they were singing “South Bronx”. No one between the ages of 3 and 11 should be singing ditties about the history of hip hop in the Bronx or anything coming from an album called “Criminal Minded”.

  2. Well, that reminds me of how I was watching the news with Dree and Ian a few weeks ago, and on it they were talking about something involving Vice President Cheney. Suddenly, Ian and Dree jumped up saying “WHAT?!?!?! CHINGY IS THE VICE PRESIDENT?!?!?!”

  3. Haha- I hear you…my 3 yo is constantly saying “what up dawg” and (to my sheer embarasment) said “later dawg” to me when I dropped him off at preschool today.

  5. Anne,
    I guess this is what happens when toddlers have cool moms. LOL j/k
    Amy,
    Yes, you can borrow him. Straight from the mean streets of, um, well, we don’t have any real streets close by. How about Straight Outta the Amish Ghetto. LOL

  6. I think that Weird Al described the Amish ghetto best in Amish Paradise. “We’ve been spending most our lives living in an Amish paradise. We sell quilts at discount price living in an Amish paradise.”

  7. I’ll take him! 😉
    Today is “worse” than yesterday… I had a conversation with The Pregnant One at work about baby clothes.

  8. My 3 year old ever says “what up dawg?” and I will move my family so far out into the southern Louisiana countryside it’d take a team of Green Berets 18 months to even find a clue about us.
    I’m open minded, and I dont fault anyone for a difference in dialect, but no child of mine is going to talk like he walked out of Compton if I have anything to say about it.

  9. The only person I ever really heard candidly say “dawg”, (besides Shirley’s kid-lol) was Leonardo Dicaprio in an interview about the environment. While I have never been to Compton (so maybe people there really do talk like that), I never heard anyone IRL call each other “dawg”. “shorty” or say “you go girl” or “talk to the hand” like they do on TV, unless they are imitating people on TV.
    As long as they know they are imitating people on TV and not that is how to speak properly, it doesn’t bother me really.

  11. I have to admit,… I am guilty of saying “You go girl” on a number of occasions… 🙂

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