Recently I received this in a blog comment:
Hi Michelle – My name is Nathan and I am a producer creating a documentary for The History Channel on the history of cursing / swearing. I loved your 2006 article about your children and swearing, it’s perfectly relevant to our documentary. I have tried other means of getting in touch with you, to no avail, and it seems this is my best chance. Please call me at 212.xxx.xxxx or xxx.xxx.xxxx to speak about your involvement.
Thanks and hoping to hear from you.
Nathan
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He was referring to a little piece I did for The Imperfect Parent. I wrote it in about five minutes (it had been a hard day) and hit “send” without really thinking it through. No more than ten minutes later, I got an e-mail back. They loved it.
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So, I smiled and picked up the phone and called Nathan.
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He likes me, he really likes me.
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He was all business.
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“As you can imagine, people have strong feelings on both sides of the swearing issue. We’re looking for someone who is comfortable swearing in front of their kids, or allowing their children to swear.”
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Sheepishly, I told Nathan, “Well…you see….I wrote that kind of tounge-in-cheek. I actually don’t swear in front of my kids.”
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Nathan let out a sigh and said, “Well that kind of changes everything.”
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Struggling to keep some of my allure, I blurted out, “But I really want to! It’s always on the tip of my tongue! I let it rip after they go to bed, and I swear on my blog when I’m really frustrated.”
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Nathan was bored with me. I could tell.
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Wanting his approval, I threw myself under a bus, and recommended
a friend of a friend, (a brilliant writer, her novel If I Stay, is about a teen in a coma deciding if she is going to go or stay) who
does swear in front of her kids, and refuses to look at it as a moral issue. Nathan had her googled before I could even give him the link.
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After Nathan got what he was after, he had no use for me.
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All my hard work, holding my tongue in front of the kids. All my
swearing for two. And this is how it goes down?
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Being a “good girl” doesn’t pay.
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I might have to rethink things around here.
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(Apologizes for the squiggles in this post, for some reason my template is removing my spacing when I publish, and the easiest way around it is to just add squiggles. I’d hate to make you wait for this hard hitting material while I figure it out).
Well f*&k!
kc beat me to it. dang. i mean damn er um sh-t.
Trust me. You probably would not have had a good time working with this person. Remember Mary Duke? She says, “Don’t go looking for tough. Tough’ll find you.” (One of the wisest things I’ve ever heard.) My point is, don’t go looking for fame. Fame’ll find you.
— Laura
G doesn’t exactly curse in front of her kids — and if she does, they earn a quarter. I have slipped up occasionally in front of M & B — the last time was when I was running water into the tub and I forgot to turn it off. In my defense, I think a curse at that moment was in order!
Well,
I’ll leave that for Gayle and Nathan to sort out. I feel my work is done here.
Damn! So close!
Squiggles rule.
HEY!! I fucking swear in front of my kids all the time! *blush*
The other day Wyatt asked, “It is okay if I say “balls” like you say “shit”, mom? Like, if I say “Holy balls!”, if something is amazing?”
…I was not going to tell people that story, as I know people are even now judging me. Hahahaha!
Whatever. And I like “holy balls’, actually… LOL
😉
Bullshit! you have your moment of fame every day every moment~ you’re that~ good~girl:)
hey this mandala generator thing you have going on ROCKS! how do you do it? email me?
Stacy, Are you referring to the little pink icon nest to your name?
It’s part of the wordpress template. You can choose those or pics.