Words and parents

I just have to laugh at this post before I start because I am having so much fun thinking of all these words that have changed meaning through time.

My memory has taken me clear back to my first kiss. BUT during the time in my life the word for kiss was 'score.' So..naturally at that time somebody would have asked,"Did you score last night?" When you read that...it sounds not like just a simple kiss, but it was that or a make out.

STORY TO NEVER FORGET: After the weekend of my first kiss, I went to school Monday. SOMEHOW is this very small town of Kanab everyone knew by 3rd period! Only 4 friends knew because they were there when it happened. I went home for lunch to talk to first kisser of mine on MSN (remember when that was the biggest hit ever) I was facing the computer, and my sister Kortni came home with 2 of her friends. She was a senior at the time, and I was a freshman.
***Pause: this was my first real kiss. Meaning it actually counted because I knew it wasn't a friendship thing**

My mother was in the kitchen behind me fixing us some lunch. Well..thanks to Kort's friends....
Kort's friend: So Jenny, I heard you got you scored this weekend.
ME: I turned fast.. looked at my mom and said, "Yep, I liked it too!"
It was perfect timing because my mom was just taking a drink of milk and spit it ALL over the counter! HAHA! She replied,"WHAT!??"
I could see she was about to laugh because of what I said. I decided to just end it with that.
(really though, the kiss was cute and sweet. The make out which was 2 weeks later was SO DISGUSTING. NOT CUTE. NOT SWEET. AND DEFINITELY NOT WHAT'S IN THE MOVIES)
Well...in my mom's era of growing up, 'score' meant go all the way..or sex. Now you can imagine why she was shocked. Go ahead-read the story over again with that thought in your mind. My mom was speechless. lol! What would you do if you heard that from your daughter and had the same thought as my mom? I don't blame her.. but she did have to clean up the milk.

More words...
Things that were cool were 'the bomb'...then it transferred into 'DA BOMB' then we had 'DA BOMB DOT COM' . it then went to 'That's sweet!' We used other words like, "sexy and hot..' and then it was 'That's sick dude!'

This didn't get too big because people were getting in trouble for saying it... and it wasn't that big in Kanab. It was big in the town not too far from Kanab. the word is 'sexual.' Someone would say, that is so sexual instead of cool. Ya..that didn't last long, but it was there.

The other big thing..and maybe this was going on before my time, but using words like 'freaking' and other substitutes for swear words. It's still happening today.

BUT now as I've gotten out of high school and am starting to grow up, my vocabulary is growing, times are changing and I'm definitely considered more of a mom and out of the 'loop'. I can see why parents watch what they say and try to be proper-especially since I have 2 year old who repeats everything. I just thought parents were old and from a WAY different time period, but in all honestly, now that I'm older and hear all the CRAZY stories my parents did when they were young, they were just like us. EXCEPT, I think they did crazier things that we could think of in high school. NO JOKE- my mouth just hangs open when they tell me what they did. I don't think they are dumb parents anymore, they are way cool!

In short, parenting is 'freaking' hard, but worth it and can be fun. I can't wait to see if my kids think I'm cool when I get to tell them my stories. I'm sure my kids will shock me with words they use. Maybe sex won't mean sex, but just kissing...lol