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Cursing?

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What do I do with this??

I picked DS up from daycare and his teacher told me that he said f*ck a couple of times today.   I'm fairly certain that he's trying to say "truck" and it isn't coming out quite right. I suggested that and she said he was not playing with trucks at all.  He just ran up to her and yelled it a few times.

We do not use the f word at home and are pretty mindful of other people's language around him.  He has a huge vocabulary and is pretty articulate for his age, so this is the first time he's really babified a word.  

I don't know quite what to do LOL  If he IS saying f*ck, of course he doesn't know what it means, but the fact that he wasn't playing with a truck when he said it concerns me. 

 So how do you get a 2 yr old to stop saying it? Ignore it?  Correct him and say TRuck every time I hear him say it?  Blame it on his father?  (kidding) I don't want to have the potty mouthed kid on the playground! LOL

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  • *LrCg**LrCg* member
    Perhaps he wanted a truck which is why he was yelling it to her.  DS messes up clock- says it without the L.  Funny story- he has a pair of underwear with a basketball on it and he's never seen a basketball but he see his round clock in his bathroom and assumed it was a clock- so he points to his privates and says his version of clock (remember without the L)-you can imagine my horror- where on earth did he hear that word and luckily my calm DH reminded me of his blunder and I said yes DS that's a cLock.  So if your certain he's never heard the word (and I'm assuming you dont use that word around him) I think your safe in knowing he messed up truck and just work with him on repeating it correctly. Or when he does say it, just say DS I don't know what your saying can you show me.
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  • jenuinejenuine

    At almost 2, I'd be far more inclined to think he's mispronouncing something than swearing. Keep an extra ear on him and see if he says it in front of you. Get him to say truck a whole bunch, accentuating the "T" and heaping on the praise when he says it correctly.

    When you hear him say it when there is no truck around, stop him, get down to his level and ask him to repeat it. If he truly swore, I'd say that is not a nice word and we don't say that in our family. If he says it again, I would give him a time out or what ever form of discipline you use.

    DD is truly a parrot. She can hear someone say something at another table at a restaurant and repeat it. It kills me. But I do what I said above. "That is not a nice word and we don't use it in our family." Thankfully it's only happened once with us. I am completely paranoid as my parents use words I don't want her to use, like darn and geeze. It's going to be really hard to tell her not to say what Grandma says!

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  • lite-brightlite-bright member

    DH and I were floored recently when DD1 kept going around saying, "Aww, f*ck." 

    That's not a word we use, and I had no idea if she was actually saying that word or something else. She often says her initial S-sounds as F, so sticker, soccer, and stuck all come out sounding like variations on the f-word.

    We ignored it and after a couple of days, it hasn't made a reappearance.

    On the other hand, I really need to stop saying dammit, b/c she's starting to pick it up. She already says "Oh Con!" instead of "Oh God!" :) I'm trying to switch to gosh darn it, which DD1 says as "gah dart!" 

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  • SimonaaaaSimonaaaa
    If nobody says it around him, then he's obviously mispronouncing another word.  Just keep your ears open and try to figure out what he's trying to say, THEN correct it.  I wouldn't tell him NOT to say what is coming out as "f*ck" or he may take it and run with it!Tongue Tied
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  • rab41380rab41380 member
    I have such a bad mouth, esepcially because of recent stress I am dealing with. I am trying to get myself to not curse around DD, cause the other day she dropped something and she said "oh S***"  That made it much more of a reality for me to knock it off.  I told DD it was a bad word, and instead taught her to say oh no.  :)
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