Time for Arrest

J with his legos today:

"Mama watch! The bad guy crashes, then the police get him in their handcuffs and put him in jail for arrest." (a rest). I love how kids make sense out of the world. 

J is having a LOT of fun lately with his own made-up language. The only problem is he seems to really like the "F" words. His favorite made-up exclamations - Fut! Fock! Faruck! He called NT a "Faruck". I am at a loss as to the best way to handle this - I don't want to introduce the "F" word in order to teach him not to use it! 

I tried redirecting him. My inspiration was to teach him pig latin. I quickly realized the concept is too complicated for four. So I tried to explain that, and I said, "Never mind honey, we will do it another time. I think mama just jumped the gun with the pig latin." I realized as I was saying it, how I was basically talking in code. J heard me say, "something, something, GUN... pig latin." He had no idea what I was talking about (the previous five minutes of "ama-may oves-lay ou-yay" had left him spinning), but somehow a "gun" was related to this "pig thing", and he wanted it! Sometimes I really just need to shut my mouth. Oh, Faruck!