Mind your language!
I don't tolerate swearing in the house but gradually the boys have starting phasing in the odd expletive here and there.
Nothing X-rated you understand - just the kind of stuff they bandy about in the playground among mates.
But the other day Nick decided to take things to a new level during a row with me.
After we'd done the usual cat and mouse thing around the kitchen table I vaulted it - memo to self: watch your back next time you try that - and he fled upstairs.
His attempts to barricade himself in his room proved futile and it was just as I reached him and gave him an old fashioned clip round the ear, that the worst word or two popped out.
He immediately realised what he'd said and turned ashen-faced, but the damage was done.
A day or so later I recounted this tale to Paul Fulford, the Mail's culinary watchdog, and after careful consideration and weighing up of all the facts he mused: "Kids - they're (insert extremely bad Anglo Saxon word here) aren't they?"
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Surely not? Paul Fulford's writing is usually so elegant!
Yes, he's a dapper little chap isn't he?
But I've seen him 'lose it' up at the Blues ground once or twice.
Appearances can be deceptive.