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What words, phrases or signs do you use and how do you get your partner's attention?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Instead of spelling it out or code, my wife and I will use increasingly obscure synonyms to hide our conversations from the kids.

They figured out "frozen confection" meant ice cream, so I need a new one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do this as well. I can't say I've kept a lot of secrets, but at least the kids have a large vocabulary.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is how we started too, but as our kid gets older it just all becomes part of his vocabulary. He already has a really peculiar vocabulary to begin with so add our code words to it and it's just... very interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hypercooled dairy sugar blend

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Lacto-saccharine sounds better

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Chilly Cattle?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

'ice cold milk.' Could be talking about a glass of dairy, or a delightful dessert.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago