From the backseat, hear one of your kids say “wow, that’s half a dozen different kinds of stupid”. Start your lecture about how we don’t use the word “stupid”. Notice what your kids are looking at: a pregnant woman with a beer in one hand, a boom box in the other, and a cigarette in her mouth as she crosses four lanes of traffic in flip flops while cars exit the freeway around her. Concede that sometimes, “stupid” is exactly the word that applies.