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Stuff kids say—pandemic edition

Kids say the darndest things. Especially when their exposure to overworked parents is heightened during a global pandemic.
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The kids are all right...up in your business! Parents are finding themselves spending every hour with their little ones as they work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, and children are, well, they’re learning some new vocabulary from their heightened exposure to stressed out parents. Maclean’s Ottawa bureau chief Shannon Proudfoot shared a story of her child innocently using a slightly vulgar word and asked for examples of the like from her followers. Here’s the s--t kids say–pandemic edition:

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