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Me with my littlest.
How do you handle DC cursing?
Yeah, stellar mom here, said 'g-dit' this morning and now J has said it several times since.
I haven't acknowledged that he said it because I don't want to encourage it by telling him not to say it and obviously I'm not going to say "Yay, that's GREAT! Say it again".
I'm hoping by the time he gets up from his nap that he'll stop saying it, but he's been talking about things that have happened weeks ago, so I'm not confident he'll forget it.
Anything I can do? Or is ignoring it the best option.
Lovely, too, we're going to have a house full of family and I can see him just wandering around saying it, just like you'd say "butterfly" or something.
Me with my littlest.
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Re: How do you handle DC cursing?
Ignore it.
Or...if he continues, try a very firm "Those are not nice words and we do not say them again."
It works like a charm anytime C wants to talk about his sister's vagina...lol.
Liam is 5!
I haven't dealt with this with my kids yet...but when I worked in daycare "Potty mouths belong in the bathroom." and we sent kids to the bathroom and told them to say their potty words to the mirror until they were done.
It worked...no kid wants to spend more time in teh bathroom than the need to.
Christopher took to saying "What theFUCKK".
MOTY!!!
I think I said "you shouldn't say that.. mommy shouldn't either. Say _______ instead".
We usually ignore it (and I laugh silently to myself because my mom has always said Jackson's first word would be the f bomb since I'm fond of overusing it). So far, that's worked. He's said s-h-i-t a few times but usually forgets it.
As he gets older, I'm torn about what to say about using curse word, because in all honesty, I couldn't care less if he uses a curse word around me. MH feels differently, but I kind of think that I'll say, "don't use it at school, know when it's appropriate, etc." and move on. I mean, it's just a word, but we'll see. It's something we don't agree one, and we'll have to find a compromise before it comes up.
I'm with you. I use the f word all the time (shocking, I know). Yesterday I ut my finger and yelled FOKKK and B repeated it and I told her not to day that and she gave me that evil look, like that's the only word she'll use from now on.
I think if you don't make a big deal, they will eventually drop it.
B got in trouble at school for calling someone poopy head and I had to laugh because we call her that jokingly. I did explain to her that its not soemthing she should call her friends at school.
I agree. We were allowed to swear at home. (me and my sister).
This is one of the very few parenting disagreements DH & I have. He doesn't think kids cursing is a problem--they just need to be taught when it's not appropriate. I disagree. On top of it just bothering me in general, I don't believe kids can be trained in that way--too many adults I know (including myself) have a difficult time turning it off at will. I just don't see that a 7-year-old would have the discipline to say it at home, but not at school.
I don't know... at 7, I would say lots of bad things, including cuss words, to my brothers as long as my mom couldn't hear me. I got that it was a no-no, but I still said it. Just when I wasn't going to get in trouble.
But, like I said, to me it's a word, and it doesn't bother me - in fact, if he said it at school, I'd probably just enforce whatever punishment he got there, and tell him that it's not appropriate at school and leave it at that. But again - it doesn't bother me when people (kids included) use curse words. They're just words, IMO.