It's funny because I used to say this a lot and when my oldest was abotu 18 months he started saying it all the time...and I felt kind of emabrassed...so when I had the next child, I stopped saying it and made a huge effort to make sure he didn't say it...then, when he was 2, he went to a new daycare for a month and obviously that caregiver said it all the time because he started saying it all the time...LOL. I just thought it was funny actually because I had worked so hard to avoid it and in the end, it happened anyway. I don't find it offensive, but I know some people do, so I do avoid saying it in front of the dck's. But, it is tricky because there are words that I wouldn't have thought to be offensive that others do find offensive. I sometimes say "shoot" and I never thought of it as a bad word...until the other day my 3 year old dcg said it (learned it from me) and then immediately corrected herself "Oh, I shouldn't say that, that's a bad word"...which made me realize that her parents must have told her that! Then I felt bad! Would others think "shoot" is bad? Now I am paranoid about everything I say!