Only at my house

Okay, so today Anthony and I were talking in the kitchen and he didn't want a pair of "little ears", Ethan's to be exact, to understand a comment he made. Since, we can't speak another language or spell things out anymore to keep the kids from understanding things, we sometimes use extra big words to throw them off. This is something Anthony is especially good at (grin). So don't ask me how, but the word bourgeois came up and Ethan asked what it meant. In typical mom fashion I told him to look it up. When Ethan decided to take us up on the challenge we couldn't help laughing and hoping it would buy us a few moments of uninterrupted adult conversation while he tried to figure out how to spell it. I wasn't going to give him any clues, but his dad helped him out with the first few letters. As we were laughing at the crazy task we had given Ethan, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of "baggage" our kids would grow up with. Do you think that if we knew, we would be able to do anything to improve their chances of growing up closer to "normal"? Then again, maybe while we were focused on fixing one thing we would make something else worse.

In case you're wondering, Ethan quickly found the word by outsmarting his parents. He decided to use the pronunciation guide instead of trying to spell the word. Where did he learn that? And what are they teaching kids in schools these days anyway?

I think next time we'll have him look up this word, bour·geois·ifi·ca·tion. Maybe it will take him a little longer. Any other suggestions?