Life with Kids

There are valuable lessons to be learned with every new stage of life, each one filled with wonder and excitement. The parenting stage deserves a special mention though, because the lessons just keep on coming—every day we learn something new from our kids. 

This must have been what Eric Ruhalter, author of The KidDictionary, a book of words parents need but don’t have, was thinking. He took all of his valuable lessons and documented them into a (hilarious) new language.

Here’s a sample of what we mean.

ORTHODONTREPRENEUR (n): A child who is interested in knocking his own teeth out in the interest of a hefty payday from the Tooth Fairy.

GARBOFLAGE (v): To hide kids’ artwork under other trash in wastebasket so you don’t get caught chucking it.

SHIRTURBED (adj): Annoyed state of a child who just received an article of clothing as a present.

KODICK (n): The child who refuses to cooperate in the taking of the family holiday card photo (not a Kodak moment).

SCOOZER (n): A child who only has something to say to you when you are on the phone.

AMUSELESS (adj): When a kid has thousands of toys, books, crafts and games but still has nothing to do.

TWIRPLE (n): When a child playing baseball makes it to third base on a hit that doesn’t make it past the infield.

DOMESTIC VIOLATION (v): Dangerous mistake of referring to SAHM as someone who ‘Doesn’t Work’.

So no need to close the book on all the day-to-day humour our lives provide. It’s in the dictionary now.

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