I don't care. Language barrier 101.

Just a quick little lesson for those of you interested in learning a foreign language.

All in all, my kids are pretty well behaved. They gripe and moan a lot when they don't want to do something but so far I have contributed that to them still needing to adjust to me.

One particular incident involved not wanting to clean up snack and a lot of muttering under the breath in French because it was known that it's a little hard for me to understand sometimes. Naturally I went up to my room and began looking up phrases I thought may have been said to me and I settled on "because I don't want to!" which is way better than what I thought.

Fast forward to hanging out with Augusta and a bunch of her French friends. They go back and forth between French and English so we can sometimes be included but it's mostly me asking what someone said or what something means because a lot of it is slang. One such phrase I heard the guys say and I asked one of them what it meant, he told me in English that it meant "I don't care." okay cool. We moved on.

Later that week, B and H asked me to play ping pong with them and I said yes. They asked what side I wanted to start on and I thought it would be awesome to show them that I know some cool French slang like a normal French person so to express my indifference, I threw out this new phrase I had learned.

The kids eyes went wide and they looked at each other with their mouths open and then looked at me like I had suddenly grown another head. The 10 year old immediately corrected me. "um you don't want to say that, say "je m'en fiche" instead. What you just said is naughty"

Apparently what I had said meant "I don't give a d***" my bad guys. It technically means the same thing as "I don't care" with a subtle difference.

Lesson learned: look up every phrase taught to you by a 20 something French guy BEFORE saying in front of your kids.