Hello, everybody. This is Todd Adams. This is Kathy Adams. And this is Zen Parenting Radio brought to you by Avid Company. This week we are going to be talking about strong language from children. Isn't that right? Yes. And how they communicate and how we communicate.

I have to start the show, being honest.

Usually we have a decent idea of what it is we're going to talk about.

We have about 30 seconds of material prepared.

So we're going to have to roll with the next 28 minutes and 30 seconds.

Well, but see, I think this show is good because we aren't prepared a lot and we just kind of talk.

Well, it's not that we're not prepared.

It's that we just talk rather than have things written down that we're going to say.

I think the show is better when we're flying by the seat of our pants.

And this is one of those occasions.

Well, then it's really not something to apologize for.

No, I'm not apologizing. Oh, I thought you said you were sorry.

No, if I did, we'll reboot and then I will unapologize.

How do you unapologize?

You don't.

Yeah, I'm not going to unapologize.

So anyways, so yeah, we were talking in the car last night or the day before, and I don't know how he came up with it. It was because I just, uh, I just did a presentation and we were talking about how

children use really strong language, um, to express themselves and how as adults, we take

their language very literally from an, from an adult perspective, an adult point of view.

And so we kind of freak out on them when they use really strong words because we, again, we view it through our own lens, which is what that

word, you know, the energy that word carries when a child really doesn't understand it, but

they know that they get attention from it. We take it literally and I think at times we take it personally. Oh, of course. We get offended by it, or we get all

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