Things that Parents Tell Their Children
I think impending parenthood makes one consider how they were raised and what things they'd like to do that their parents did and what they want to change. I feel like everyone has untruths they were raised with, whether it be something as simple as the tooth fairy or something much darker and personal. Recently, I've been thinking about some of the little ones that happened to me while I was growing up. A little one that I didn't catch until I was literally seventeen was "porcupine". My entire childhood I thought it was pronounced "porky-pine". The only reason I realized my error was because that animal somehow managed to come up in a conversation with my mother. She looked at me and said, "You do realize that isn't how it's pronounced, right?" I was quite confused and asked her to clarify. She said, "It's pronounced "pork-U-pine". Your dad just thought it was funny to say "porky-pine" when...