Shocked

I have sweet children.
They try to do what's right.
Yesterday I felt like I had failed to teach them correctly.

We were at the store.
We were looking at video games.
The daughter saw something and busts out with  "OMG".
NOT the abbreviated version.
Which, by the way, I feel is no better than actually saying it outright.

I can handle other words, but that one gets me EVERY TIME.
I would almost rather she said one of the other words.

I tried really hard not to.
But I busted out....CRYING.
And all I could manage was,
"That is our Heavenly Father's name and we do not use it that way."
At which point SHE busted out crying too.

I felt bad.
But I was trying (HARD) to get my own emotions in check.
She felt bad.
I couldn't even comfort her.

And for a while I couldn't figure out what had even happened.
Or why.
Really- who cries like that....
In an instant?
About something like that?

Until I realized:
It's because I felt like I had taught my children this already.
And it hadn't quite stuck.
So I felt like I had failed.
Which made me feel like a bad parent.

I love my daughter.
And her desire to do what's right.
I don't think she'll do it again.
This time........
I think it stuck