George Mekhail

We've actually done, I think, a pretty good job of not, you know, it's not like we are fake, right?

If there's conflict, our kids will know it, but we don't hash it out in front of the kids unless it's relevant to them.

We're a very open family.

We'll sit down and we'll talk about anything.

One of the household rules that we have is don't use words that you don't know the meaning of.

Which is a great way to not have to say, like, don't swear, right?

Because then you have to define which words are swear words and which aren't.

So we just said, listen, if you don't know the meaning of a word, I don't want to hear you use it.

And then if I hear you use the word, I'm going to ask you, like, hey, what does that word mean?

And then you get the pleasure and sometimes the uncomfortable joy of having your child, you know, explain to you a word that they just said, like the meaning of it.

And then very quickly, they just, again, self-corrects like, okay, I'm not going to use that word anymore.

Because a lot of times what you'll find is they don't even know what the meaning of the word is.

And then you tell them, they're like, oh, that's what that means?

Yikes, sorry about that.

And so, but it does lead to some really interesting conversations because then it just opens up like,

We had a whole conversation one time at dinner with our kids when they were pretty young, I think like probably six and eight, just about like all the different euphemisms for penis.

And I don't remember how it came up.

I think one of my kids said like one of the euphemisms and it was that exchange.

But it just led to like the most hilarious, like fun conversation.

A conversation that also like dispelled, here's all the words that you don't say, right?