Swear Word Obseessed

When you are first grade, you are slowly coming to realize the power of words.  And in first grade no words have more power than swear words.  Isaac, as I have written about before, is 100% obsessed with swear words.  He wants to know what they are, how to spell them, when people say them, and what they mean.  Most of all, though, he wants to know which is the worst.  Other than racial and sexual slurs, we have told him that the "F word" is the worst swear.  I think that is a good consensus pick.  

This morning Isaac had a bit of a temper tantrum and threw some stuff around the house.  I got a bit frustrated and mumbled under my breath.  There was no swearing, but for a swear-obsessed kid anything said in anger without clarity is probably a swear.  When I arrived downstairs he had recounted to Bianca how I almost said the "F word."  She asked and I set the record straight, though Isaac was still disbelieving.  That's when his shadow of a little brother poked his head into the kitchen and yelled with a huge grin on his face "THE F WORD."  Now mind you he did not say "FUCK" but instead the phrase "the F word" as if the phrase itself was the swear.  Bianca and I had to instant turn the other direction so that Isaac and Ethan didn't see us burst into giggles.  

The swear word collector and his assistant Ethan are a laugh riot.