Is your first reaction to swear if you stub your toe or catch your finger in a door? If so, you may be following nature’s way of helping you not feel the pain. Seriously.
According to a study, published recently in the online journal NeuroReport , reacting to pain by swearing was part of the so-called fight-or-flight response humans feel when they perceive a threat.
Researchers studied 67 students who submersed a hand in ice water. Half the group cursed and the other half didn’t. The researchers found that the students who cursed were able to withstand the ice cold water better …read more

AJ is in a stage right now wherein words are hard for him to find, especially nice ones. So, when he is angry or frustrated he resorts to ones that he has heard and/or picked up from friends or television (his favorites are from Shrek). Words like stupid, idiot, and my favorite? Second! Yes, its one of his favorite AJ expletives.
Our response is not the old soap routine that our parents loved to use on us, or even time outs. Most of the time when AJ gets to the point that he is screaming at me that I am stupid …read more