- well, it happened... -

ruby flipped me the finger! - this', along with cursing, smoking, drinking, etc. is something that's not tolerated in this family - it goes so far as our kids would think 'shut up' & 'fart' are curse words since we say things like 'quiet please' & 'toot'

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anyhow, ruby came home yesterday afternoon from school with a bit of snip to her attitude - it wasn't a 'hateful' snip, but snip none the less - everything she did, was with a smirk & a roll of the eyes [you get the picture, a teenage attitude!] - anyway, she was helping brit with something & when the job was all but finished, she was then right in the way, so brit asked her to move over [nope, didn't work], so i said, "ruby, scoot over please? - it was then that she crawled over across the hallway, layed on the floor & said, "mommy... [flip!]" only didn't say flip, but instead, did it!

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although i was shocked to see it, i wasn't shocked it happened as her bus driver mentioned about a week or better ago that a mentally challenged girl that's in about first grade that rides ruby's bus has started doing this very thing - he'd separated she & ruby for other behavior issues, but he was assuming ruby had already been 'schooled' on this & he was warning us

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we've not seen/heard anything more until yesterday & like angela said, "gosh, she even used it at the right [wrong] time too!"

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when she did it, i was on her like no body's business & drug her into her bedroom where she thought she was gonna die - i asked where she'd seen it [she told me] & i explained how we do not use that flip at all...here or anywhere & she agreed that was a good idea [she was just glad she was going to granted permission to live a bit longer]

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so, i've now been flipped off by a child of mine that's only 5...ugh