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Among the numerous gifts that the girls had received over Christmas, was this little toy nail salon by Melissa & Doug\u2122, propagating stereotypes of Asian business owners in America<\/span>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not the type of dad that\u2019s too manly and too masculine to play with whaterver my kids want to play, so I joined them at the kitchen table to demonstrate what I know about the nail salon business, not to mentioned the set does actually give a pretty detailed ordered list of what is perceived as the typical, getting nails done routine.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, I couldn\u2019t just play with my kids without injecting a little bit of my customary humor into the scenario, so I would jokingly mention that during various parts of the getting nails done journey, this is where we (the one doing the nails) speak in a different language, not mentioning that the speaking being done, is talking shit about the customer right to their face, among their peers, because everyone knows all these Vietnamese and Korean yentas pull this shit and have been doing so since the dawn of the business model.<\/span><\/p>\n I nearly lost it when I switched roles with #1, and she was the one doing my nails, and how she would girl-splain to her little sister the order of tasks during getting nails done, and when she got to the part of primpting the cuticles and drying nails, she said \u201cthis is where we speak a different language now\u201d and I actually did lose it, thinking back to the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n And then I sighed and had to remind myself that I really have to be careful of the things I say around my kids, because they are sponges and absorb everything they hear from their surroundings, and it really doesn\u2019t take more than hearing something once or twice before they do so, and begin formulating how they can use it themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n For years, I\u2019ve always referred to the second Christmas tree that we put in the upstairs landing of my home as \u201cthe jihad tree,\u201d because it\u2019s the tree where mythical wife has a jihad against any ornaments that aren\u2019t Disney related for the bigger, fancier primary Christmas tree that resides downstairs, are allowed to be hung and displayed on, and I\u2019ve made it my own personal tradition to deliberately amass the gaudiest and silliest and most unwanted ornaments from the discount bins from the year before to be hung on it.<\/span><\/p>\n Considering my kids go to school at a Jewish establishment, I figure it\u2019s for the best that they don\u2019t pick up on the terminology of jihads, and worse off explain it to their peers and teachers that we have a jihad tree at home, so it\u2019s been referred to simply as \u201cdada\u2019s tree\u201d instead.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, the worst was when my kids picked up on the slip up of profanity, and I remember hearing on the monitor during their quiet time, my oldest saying the word \u201cfuck\u201d and my eyes bugging out of my head at realizing what she had said.\u00a0 Or when the kids picked up on \u201cdamn it\u201d and blurted it out themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a period of time when I, wouldn\u2019t necessarily let it fly, but I would let it slide, banking on the then-notion that they were too young to pick up on it, or its context, but those days are long behind us.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s onto \u201coh poop\u201d or other innocuous remarks, where I still don\u2019t really want them to pick up on the context of them, but at least they\u2019re not going to get us as parents a stern nasty eyeballing if they were to repeat them out in public.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, it\u2019s a good thing that they can\u2019t read, much less know that dada has a brog that\u2019s been up and running for 23+ years.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine the day they eventually realize and learn about it, and if they care to read about the journey of my life through my brog, realizing that their dad sure wrote a ton of shit and profanity, even if he tried his best to suppress it in speech while they were growing up.\u00a0 But one of these days, that bridge will be built and eventually crossed, but I\u2019ll deal with it when that time arrives; 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