It seems like going to an all-boys day camp has completely de-civilized Slate writer's 8-year-old boy! He's turned into an animal, singing songs with saucy lyrics and acting like, well, an 8-year-old boy:

A friend of a friend reports that since camp began, her son—a sweet child; he has two sisters—has taken to saying with gruff-voiced swagger, "I'm gonna take a leak." Eli and Simon have started yelling, "Give me five!" and then dropping to the floor for pushups, or some facsimile of them. They have learned many perfectly presentable songs at camp, but the latest one is "I don't want to be a chicken/ I don't want to be a duck/ so kiss my butt." Actually, the real lyrics seem to substitute "shake" for "kiss,"—here's one kid's rendition—but that's not what Simon thinks, and, in any case, this crossed a certain line for me. As in: You may not sing this song outside the house.

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