Little Quentin ran into the living room while his mother was hosting a group of friends and yelled at the top of his lungs, “Mom! I gotta piss!”
Mortified by his language, his mother scolded him after taking him to the bathroom. “Quentin, we do not use that vulgar word in front of guests. Next time you need to go to the toilet, just tell me you need to ‘whisper’, okay?” The little boy nodded obediently.
A few nights later, Quentin woke up busting to go to the bathroom again. He ran downstairs and found his dad deeply engrossed in a football game on TV.
“Dad! Dad!” Quentin said urgently. “I really gotta whisper!”
Without taking his eyes off the television screen, his dad waved him over and replied, “Alright, little buddy, just come over here and whisper right in Daddy’s ear.”
