Wow, Clarissa -- that's the most you've spoke in two weeks! Nice to see you here, and thanks for sharing about Miranda.
Here's how my teachable moment about mentioning strangers' physical attributes came up: my son, then 2, said, very loudly, in Target, in regard to a man standing two feet away: "Mom, look how fat
that guy is!"
We hadn't yet discussed the topic of discussing others in public, but this greatly increased my sense of urgency.
As for MILF, no, you're not old enough either but I'll tell you anyway. (I only fairly recently heard it myself.) It stands for Mom I'd Like to F*ck. We're learning the definition just in time; according to an item on Salon last week, there's a new line of baby's clothes that say "My mom is a MILF." How charming.
BTW, when I first heard the term I looked it up on
www.urbandictionary.com. For anybody not already familiar with it, it's an invaluable source for finding definitions of slang words, particularly ones you might not want to ask a librarian for.