[{"_1":2,"_31":-5,"_32":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","children","posts",[9],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":-5,"_27":28,"_29":30},"id",1181,"title","Cordelia will hate me","excerpt","I've rediscovered my love for Jeff Vogel's writing about his daughter Cordelia, now a toddler. His parenting philosophy? Skip shielding her from swear words and instead teach her to deploy them with maximum effectiveness. Highly recommended reading.","body","\r\nLong-time readers (both of you) will remember how much I loved the story about the baby, a hilariously-written weekly look into the life of newborn, as told by her father. As promised, the story about the baby ended at Cordelia's first birthday. Happily, it has now been replaced with The Story About the Toddler, updated less frequently but still hilarious, to whit:\r\n

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For reasons that are not yet clear to me, a lot of parents we know are worried about their children learning cuss words. This is a truly charming display of futility. In the world we live in, even the most sheltered Amish child will have learned enough swear words to cuss like a longshoreman or the Irish by the time it is five.\r\n
So I am approaching the issue from a much more realistic perspective. I am not going to waste energy keeping Cordelia from swear words. Instead, I’m going to skip a step and just make sure that she is able to use them in more colorful ways than her schoolyard chums.\r\n
If some dirty little sprog says she is a poo-poo head, I want her to be able to call him a “ball-draining cum junkie”. She should be able to deflect all those silly little schoolyard taunts by tossing off a casual “Lick my ass, fucktard.”\r\n
And if some boy says she has cooties, I want her to fire right back with “Yeah. Well, we’ll see how easy you say that when my cock’s in your mouth.” This doesn’t make any sense, of course, but hopefully it’ll confuse and distract him enough for her to really put the boot in.\r\n

\r\nThis guy is clearly a great parent.","updated",["D",1064686056000],"created",["D",1064686056000],"codename","cordelia_will_hate_me","legacy_id","2853","thumbnailUrl","published",["D",1064686056000],"draft",false,"actionData","errors"]

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