"being that" you're writing a paper....

You can thank my daughter for this blog post. She is a truly good writer, but she has one really bad habit in her grammar: she uses the phrase "being that." Now, what's wrong with that, you might ask? After all, we often hear people saying something like this:

Being that it's Saturday, I really want to go out for breakfast. 

Great idea, but wrong grammatically. In fact, you should strike the phrase "being that" from your vocabulary.

So, what should you write (and say) instead? Very simple,

Since it's Saturday, I really want to go out for breakfast.

OR


Because it's Saturday, I really want to go out for breakfast. 

Being that Since I just took the time to write out this post, please don't use the awful phrase "being that."