Bad parent:
Four year old daughter knows “you are being an arse” and “this is a pain in the arse” are terms used when you are feeling annoyed with someone.
Good parent:
Four year old daughter somehow mistakenly thinks it is pronounced ‘ask’ and so uses a PG rated version – “stop being a pain in the ask” when she is feeling annoyed. Even better, she emphasizes ask for full effect, and so in public it can sound no more offensive than a child demanding “ask, ask, assssssssssssssssssk!”. And because I am a good parent I have not corrected her.
blue milk 
Self-correcting behavior. All good indeed!
Excellent mother!
I felt very proud of myself when my children saw chocolate bars in the checkout queue and said “muesli bars!”
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