So it turns out that I'm a terrible influence on my 2 year old: A couple of weeks ago I was preparing breakfast for my son and upon getting his weetabix out of the microwave, promptly dropped the whole bowl on the floor, which was followed by a loud exclamation of 'oh shit'. My son then gleefully repeated 'oh shit, oh shit, oh shit' to which I didn't respond at all, thinking that if I ignored him he would lose interest in the phrase. Sadly this tactic has failed and a couple of weeks on 'oh shit' has replaced 'oh dear' and 'uh oh' so is pretty much my son's most common utterance. I'm fairly horrified and my husband, who witnessed the original 'shit', is both furious with me for teaching him to say this and intolerably smug that I've been the one to introduce such a delightful term. I was just wondering if anyone had any advice on how to eradicate 'shit' from my son's vocabulary. I would probably laugh off the occasional exclamation but it's happening a lot and seems firmly ingrained in his everyday vocabulary. I also think people are starting to doubt me when I try and explain it by saying how we've been to look at ships recently! Thanks in advance.
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