Educated name calling
We don't allow name calling in our family. I'm pretty strict about it, and don't usually allow it even in jest. The main exceptions are "landlubber," "scalawag," and "scurvy dog." (Can you tell that pirates have been popular around here? And, no, we haven't seen the new Pirates of the Caribbean.)
Anyway, Alex (my three year old son) and I were fighting a mock battle, and I was winning. He was pretty excited and he cried out, "You... you... Babylonian!"
He probably didn't expect me to burst into laughter. I smiled and told him I'd rather be a Babylonian than an Assyrian any day.
Aren't homeschooling families fun?!