Here’s a kid-rule in my house! If any music or video uses a bad word, they can’t listen anymore. A few weeks ago Charlie heard me listening to Billy Joel and told me I had to turn it off because he sang a bad word. I missed it….but ugh! Sure enough – my buddy Billy really did sing a cussword!
A few weeks later, on a road trip to Alabama Susan and I are playing Josh Groban and singing. Charlie is NOT a Josh G. fan and he starts complaining and insisting we need to turn the song off.
Charlie: Mom, you have to turn it off he’s using bad words.
Me: Charlie, he’s singing in Italian! He’s not saying bad words.
Charlie: Yes, I searched it up and it says, (pretending to read off his phone) “Does Josh Groban use bad words? Yes, in his Italian songs every word that starts with a ‘D’ is a swear word. Josh Groban swears all the time!”
Susan: Let me see that!
Charlie: No, I’m still reading it….Oh Mom, this is bad, we can’t listen to it.
Susan and I ignored Charlie and kept listening to Josh Groban music. A few moments later I hear a bird tweeting sound.
Me: Whats that?!!! (A little freaked because on a road trip, EVERY bizarre sound is something wrong with my car!!!)
Susan: It’s Charlie.
Me: Charlie! What are you doing? (The sound has now changed to louder various chicken noises.)
Charlie: I’m using this to ‘beep’ out all the cussing – so we don’t hear the bad words… bro, this is a lot of work. (talking to Christian who was just enjoying the whole thing.)
Josh Groban with some chickens is annoying and Charlie almost lost his phone but later he switched to goat sounds and I have to admit that was pretty funny. I tried to be stern, but Susan was sitting next to me, caught me laughing and ratted me out.