(I already know the answer to this, but have to ask anyway...)
Anyone here ever make a "slight mistake" when "instructing their kids?
This happened a few days ago:
DS (who's 2, almost 3) is just starting to get that daddy "catches bad guys"...well, he was pretending to "catch bad guys", and daddy--freshly home from hanging out with nothing but dudes for 5 months--was playing too. Well, he asked me..."Daddy, what do you say when you catch them?" (DW was watching all this go down)...
That's when, for some reason, my brain was disconnected from my mouth....and I just blurted out "I yell at them GET ON THE GROUND SCUMBAG"
DW yelled MICHAEL!! as soon as I said it, and no sooner had she started to chastise me when DS started yelling "GET ON THE GROUND SCUMBAG" at the top of his lungs....
I spent the next 45 minutes trying to explain to him that this was NOT what I say....
Fast Forward to yesterday:
Well, he apparently blurted out his new favorite catch phrase at Day Care--while playing outside with his little friends....
DW made ME go in and explain it to the Director---who's husband (luckily) is a State Trooper and thought it was funny....
--however, I still got "the speech"
I say it was DW's fault because she focused on it at the beginning
I had to take myself to time out..
PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one who's done this..