the things kids learn in kindergarten...

I can't think of anything better to say and I've had time to think about this. You handled it well. OH HOW things have changed in so little time. Good Luck...

Oh that's funny! It reminded me of a story about my mom when she was little. She's the youngest of nine children. Her oldest sister is 18 years older than her so she had teenage siblings (mostly the 3 boys I think) still when she started school. She caught them flipping the bird to their friends and of course asked what it meant. The knew if they told her it was something bad she'd tell their mom on them. Instead they told her it was just a big kid way of saying Hi! So the next Sunday in CHURCH of all places my mom sat there in the pew all cute in her little Sunday dress and started flipping the bird to everyone around her. She and her brothers got in a whole lot of trouble that day! I think you handled it really well. You told him it was bad without making a huge deal out of it. He's not going to completely forget about it of course but he won't think about it too much either. Most of the kids learn these things on the bus from the older kids. Short of driving him to school yourself there's not much you can do about it and even then he'll learn it in the classroom from the kids that did ride the bus. I don't think at five they have any concept of what they're doing. They just saw someone else do it and thought it looked "cool".

You did the right thing. Your son probably got the message that doing something like that will shock people and is bad. When I was in kindergarten and learning to read, I saw that someone had written a 4-letter word that started with 'f' on the back of our garage. I went inside and asked my Mom what it meant, spelling it in its entirety. She nearly dropped the dish she was washing, and asked where I'd seen it. When I told her, she said it was a bad word and writing it on our garage was bad. We never found out who wrote it, but I learned not to spell it to anyone else. (I think my Mom painted over it.)

How awful for you to have to deal with but I'm not overly surprised. I think you did the right thing by not making too much of it. You also did the right thing by letting him know he'd be in trouble if he used it again. I never liked that finger symbol. It's a disgusting way to express one's self. Of course, I'm of the opinion that if you must use foul language and obscene gestures, you aren't too bright to begin with. No one needs that to express themself. The problem is that people have no morals anymore because they've kicked God out of their lives so they don't know right from wrong and using foul language, etc. is the only thing they can do. It's terribly sad. I see a lot of small kids in my neighborhood who smart off and use foul language, too. It's such a terrible waste.

My son who is also in kindergarten came home singing a new song that one of his friends taught him. So he decided to teach it to his sister too. And they decided to wait until we were eating dinner with my parents and then they looked at each other and started to sing,"I like big butts, and I can not lie", at the top of their lungs!

I think you handleed the situation perfectly. When my son was going to daycare he started to learned several things that I didn't know kids that age knew.We chuckle now but we sure got emabarassed a few time when he was showing us what he learned.

They sure do shock you. Don't they? My little niece started dance classes and she has learned some things there that have shocked us.