There are plenty of words that are off-limits to parents, but when you have daughters, some are more forbidden than others. For Blake Lively [1] and Ryan Reynolds [2] — parents to girls James and Inez — one term in particular is completely banned.

"We've joked that my daughter is bossy," Blake said in an interview with Glamour magazine [3]. "But my husband said, 'I don't ever want to use that word again. You've never heard a man called bossy.'"

Blake explained, "There would never be any negative connotation for a man being a boss, so to add a negative connotation on a woman being bossy? It's belittling. And it doesn't encourage them to be a boss."

The actress also revealed another rather clever tactic Ryan uses [4] when choosing his words around his two daughters.

"With my husband, I'm lucky to have someone who is so conscious," she said. "My husband was like, 'Why do I always say he?' And I said, 'That's what we're taught.' So he'll pick up, like a caterpillar, and instead of saying, 'What's his name?' he'll say, 'What's her name?'"

As for Blake, she admits she has "no idea" how to be the best parent for a daughter, but "I do know that I have to watch her and listen to her and not project any of my own insecurities or struggles on her."

For that, she turns to comedian Sarah Silverman.

"[She] does a great bit that I'm going to butcher: 'Stop telling little girls that they can do anything. They already believe they can do anything. It opens the door for questions . . .' We're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not. So there's nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels."