Ugly Words

Sheila's bus driver informed me this afternoon that Sheila was using some really ugly words this morning on the bus.  I was shocked.  She has never said those words at home and Ray and I do not use those words.  We don't watch any shows that use those words frequently.  Sheila really doesn't watch TV anyway besides cartoons.  If a show has too many ugly words I turn it off.  I can't stand to watch shows, no matter how funny they are, that use that kind of language.

At first I think Sheila thought she was in trouble because she would just answer, "I can't know" when I asked her who she heard say those words.  She rides the bus with kids all the way up to sixth grade but they have a good bus driver and so I am sure he doesn't let them use that language.

After I talked to her about how they were bad/ugly words and that they are very mean to say to people.  I told her what the one word meant but the other she is too young to know.  I asked her if she would say them again and she said no.  I then told her if someone wanted her to say those words to tell them "They are dirty words and I don't put dirty words in my mouth."

Finally when I was telling Ray about it on the phone she told me she heard two of her classmates use those words.  I just can't believe little five year olds know those words.  I thought I would eventually have to deal with them picking up something worse (Timmy picked up the D word but we pretty much got that stopped) but I didn't think it would happen until they were way older.  I told Sheila that she wasn't in trouble but now that she knows not to use those words that if I heard that she used them again that she would be in trouble.