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"Ah! Excellent question," Fin proclaimed with a grin. She knew her grandchildren would likely begin to pick up on her vocabulary soon enough. After all, she used it, and she didn't stop her own kids from using it either. The question actually made her wonder if her kids even knew what the word meant. They clearly knew how to use it properly, but she suspected they didn't actually know what they were saying when they used the expletive. 

"A bastard is someone who's being mean or is a jerk, or otherwise not very nice," she explained, "I use it a lot when I'm made at someone or at something. A bastard can be anything from a coyote trying to steal from our caches to a tree branch that you trip on. If it makes you mad, call it a bastard. It's not a very nice name to say to people you like, so you shouldn't call any of your packmates a bastard. But a bird poops on your head? That's a bastard!"

My inner mom is cringing.