Thanks Hip Hop Harry!

I was sitting on the sofa going through e-mails and I must have murmured something under my breath without knowing it or maybe Lito heard something on the TV. Either way, my concentration was broken by my son coming up to me and saying,

"Mommy, you shouldn't use that word, because it's bad and your words have power."

I thought, surely I heard him wrong. Yes that's the kind of thing I plan to explain to him when he's older so I was positive that I did not teach him that wonderful way of thinking yet. At that very point, Danny came home from running an errand so I let it go. The statement kept ringing in my ear all day though so I finally broke down and asked Lito...

"Lito, what did you tell me earlier about my words?" He looked at me and frowned. He didn't seem to know what I was talking about so I asked him again, just in a slightly different way. His face lit up and he said,

"Oh, I said don't talk like that because words have power!"

So I asked him who taught him that and he said he heard it on the show 'Hip Hop Harry'! Lito went on to tell me that it was a song they sang after his daughter talked back to him and that Hip Hop Harry was explaining to her that she has to think before she talks. WOW!!

I learned that I underestimate the things my 4-year old understands! Thank you Hip Hop Harry!!! Thank YOU!