This has never been more true to me than on the car ride home yesterday.  I picked up my little girl from daycare and while in route to the house I suddenly recalled having forgotten to take care of something earlier in the day.  Ok, I forgot to order the sandwiches for my monthly poker game.  So logically the first (and only) thing out of the my mouth when I realized the oversight of such an extremely important task was to say the F word.  Half way through the word I tried to recover with a quick and very sloppy transition into the word fudge, but the damage was done.  My daughter heard the F word.  Definetely not the first time but for some reason she latched on to it this time around.  In fact she managed shout it out twice in the next three blocks of our drive.  In my quick thinking I switched to my wife’s strategy (yes, she’s said the F word in front of my daughter) which is to follow up my daughther’s F word with “Truck?”  Where do you see a truck honey?  Even at 22 months I don’t think she bought it.  We are product of our surrounding.  And that surrounding and environment can be powerful in shaping our behavior.  You have to love the art of communication.

Eric