Thats so annoying.

it's probably a habit for her to call everything weird. sd19 used to make me so mad, because everything and everybody was "gay". he's gay. she's gay. that's gay. you're gay. even her free vehicle that was given to her by her grampa was gay when it started to fall apart. school was gay. absolutely everything was gay. i cannot find words to express how badly i wanted to rip her tongue out. not only because she said it constantly, but because it's derogitory and heard by someone who is actually gay, could have been very hurtful. i don't think calling anyone or anything gay, retarded, or anything like that is ok.

Its very annoying. I have a 10 yr old daughter (she is mine, not a SD) and she went thru this phase calling me weird and everything weird. She picked it up from SD15. Now the new thing is to say the word awkward after everything. It drives me crazy. BD3 is now saying it!! She is also very stubborn and if I say I like something she will say she hates it. I used to be this way when I was little so I know the game!! SD15 is the culprit in all of this!!

To address the word gay from bi-I grew up in NY. We used that word alot to call something stupid or uncool. At the time we had no idea what the word gay actually meant as we were young and everyone used the word all the time. Now I would not let my kids say that or use the word retarted, it is very disrespectful!! But if you watch any reality tv I do notice the people from NY or NJ still use that word like we did when we were kids.

Thank god I thought it was just my kids! My DD went through using weird as a description for EVERYTHING at 10 we had to ban her from using it it got so bad, then as she got more creative suddenly everything including taste of foods were AKWARD! Then my DS started with akward moved to bizarre and then wrong as his choices for obsessive descriptive words. At least they both mostly out grew it.

We experienced this with SD. At around 7 she picked up the incredibly disrespectful hand-in-the-face along with "Whatever..". She had to have picked it up at school or daycare. It took us by surprise when it started & we laughed a little bit, but it got old quick.

DH was trying to get her to take a bath & she looked at DH & screamed, "No!" He picked her up & carried her to to the tub & told her she wasn't to come out until she was finished. She threw her hand up in his face, did the little ghetto chicken neck thing, looked him square in the eye & said, "What-ever Daddy".

I've never seen him move so quick, & that is the ONLY time I've ever seen him spank her. I don't recall it happening again.

Now, I always hear "EPIC". Everything is "EPIC". As is explained in the following link, not often is the word used properly. This link cracked me up. I'm considering emailing it to the kids...LOL!

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic

My SD uses weird / awkward / random, etc. She also uses all kinds of words incorrectly or in an inappropriate manner and when dh or I correct her, she'll say "well, that's just how I use it" or "I use it this way". Well, that doesn't make it right you little shit! Or worse, she'll say "well, my mommy said...". OMG her mommy told her that the earthquake was just an "aftershock" because ther was no damage. Um, hello? An aftershock implies it was AFTER the original earthquake, not that there is no damage. So we point out that it was indeed an earthquake and her response is "well, my mom and me call it an aftershock". My response was "well then you and your mom are wrong"

Sorry, tangent!

WEIRD!?!

Wow, I never bothered mentioning that here because I didn't think anyone else would have experienced it. SD calls everything weird, too. And not in a nice way. SO says to ignore it because she "doesn't know what it means" or it's "just a habit". Screw that. If I want to be offended by having my home, my kids, my pets, my choice in TV shows, my car, the fact that I GO places, the things I say,the food I cook, and whatever the hell else being called weird, I will. Know why? It's OFFENSIVE!!

This is one of the things I hate the very most about SD. Yep. Hate. I said Hate.

Her mom is a lazy loser who never takes the kids out to do anything and SD even said it was WEIRD that I take my kids so many places (not that we even go that many places, but a couple is way more than ZERO).

SD and I had what I thought was a private inside joke about the two of us being in the mood for fudgesicles. The next time I saw her she said, "Remember how you said that thing about the fudgesicles?". I smiled and said yes, thinking we were going to relive our happy moment, and maybe even have fudgesicles together. She said, "That was weird". OK guess I'm too weird to share fudgesicle time with. See if I find you to have one next time I do.

She has called our pets weird. She has called the fact that I have gas in my car weird. When she had a friend over I overheard her tell her friend that our house is weird. Every food that isn't a potato chip or french fry or hash brown is weird or candy is weird. My kids are weird for eating food that isn't on the preceding list. We're weird for singing along with the radio, which probably all kids think is weird when adults do it. It's weird that I sometimes like the TV turned off and sit in silence.

There is no end to this girl's opinions of what is weird.

Can you tell this is a hot button for me?????

How about if every single time one of our skids says "that's weird" we respond with "that's rude"?

"its not weird. its just different" and as for "ugly", calling names, bullying, and meanness get immediate disciplinary action.