Health & Fitness
Sherpa Mom?
When I said to my kids, "Do I look like your Sherpa?" I was speaking to them in the ancient sarcastic language of "Mom" now parodied in a series of videos titled, "Sh*t Moms Say."
Sometimes when I have conflict with my kids, I have been known to utter classic phrases such as, “I don’t care what they do at your friend’s house, this is the way we do it here.” If I really get going I might launch next with, “Wait until you have kids of your own someday…”
Recently, these pronouncements were delivered at home with higher frequency as Seattle was literally “snowed in” for nearly a week. After the initial fun and coziness of making snowmen and drinking multiple mugs of hot chocolate wore thin, cabin fever began to set in. While this unexpected week of togetherness created both fun and friction, it also provided plenty of time to explore the latest hits on YouTube. My kids introduced me to a series of videos called “Shit (fill in blank) Say.” It all started — way back in December 2011 — with Shit Girls Say, featuring Juliette Lewis and written by Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard.
Shit Girls Say is a parody that pokes fun at stereotypically female ways of talking. This minute-long video has now been viewed over 12 million times. Further, it has spawned hundreds of variations by gender and ethnicity. Some are funny; others might be viewed as insulting, depending on your point of view. However, my teenage sons could hardly contain their peals of laughter as we watched together, Shit Moms Say.
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To view the video head over to PermissionSlips for the rest of this week’s post (http://permissionslips.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/sht-moms-say/), a blog I alternate writing with my friend and colleague