That @#&% Rating System
In a moment of parenting GENIUS, we have created a rating system for curse words. It all started when the boys and I were at the park and overheard two junior highish boys call each other as many names that included the word “ass” as they could think of. To be honest, the whole thing was clunky and painful because middle school, but my boys asked the obvious next question: “Mom, what is a ‘Loser Dass’?” Well sons, a) it is a version of newbie cursing that lacks vision and creativity, b) there’s no D but, I guess more importantly, c) we don’t say that word. I tried to get…