My toddler swears...anyone else?

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My 2 year old DS says 'bugger', on purpose, as clear as day, because he's heard us say it and he obviously likes the reaction he gets when he says it. I find this hilarious and also very embarrassing, depending who is listening when he says it.

He also says, unintentionally:
'shite' ('light')
'tit' ('sit')
cock ('clock')

Anyone else's child swear like a sailor?

Jeeeeezus so many fucking pearl clutchers on here!

ITS LIGHTHEARTED PEOPLE

... bugger

So where has your child picked up cock as a funny swear word?

He hasn't...he can't say clock so says cock instead. Bloody Norah, some people!

I can't recall any deliberate swearing when my children were little, but there was one very embarrassing mispronunciation incident when my DS was about 3. There was a popular kids tv programme at the time which was about bath toys who came to life. I don't know if it is still on? It was called The Rubbadubbers and it had quite a catchy theme tune. A theme tune which my DS decided to sing at the top of his voice in a motorway service station just as what seemed to be an old age pensioners coach trip arrived. We were leaving fortunately, but I had to run the gauntlet of outraged elderly ladies as he cheerfully warbled " Here come the Rubber Buggers. Piss! Splash! Splosh!" It was in tune at least though.

Is 'bugger' considered cursing?. Came onto the thread expecting a lot worse

@rededucator
I'm more worried about your lack of reading skills. The child can't say clock!

Apologies for the misunderstanding

I have a toddler grandson and we have all stopped swearing in front of him ... it is not that hard if you try. He now says "oh dear" which we now use instead of "oh shite" etc.

I remember being in a car park with husband and little one who was two.

Someone had left a shopping trolley which I moved, he also tried to move it and said, "The wheel's buggered up Mummy". It was so funny coming from such a tiny tot.

We didn't ever swear in front of him, husband didn't really swear anyway, but I used to say, "Oh shit", and he picked that up.

They are funny when they are little though, aren't they? They get words wrong. I remember mine one day when we had both thought of something at much the same time, saying, "We must be psychopathic Mummy", instead of 'telepathic' (don't know how he got that word but must have been something at school). He also asked me not to keep 'destructing' him.

Sweet memories. They're not little for long.

Well, if it makes you feel any better my DS2's third word was fucker. Used in context after a child took a toy off him at day care.
Everyone survived, and it's just one of those family legends now.

DS1 loved Bambi the movie, very, very much.

One day he came downstairs in my parents' house and said to my Dad 'Gangog, where's that bastard video?'

I think he'd heard us saying 'oh, he's watching that bastard video again' which is ironic as Dad loved watching Bambi

Actually swearing points to higher intelligence. It is funny OP,

My ex took my son out shopping one day, and brought my then 11 month old home saying his very first word; borrocks. As an English teacher, he then spent the next few hours correcting his pronunciation.

Apparently, they’d been next to a bloke who’d dropped his wallet & exclaimed “Oh bollocks!”, thus giving my son his very first word.

I’ve always taught my children, “If it’s in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), then it’s good enough for me!”. And then, taught them how to moderate any swearing to appropriate situations only. No swearing at school, Doctors, church, Granny’s house etc.

And it’s worked well. My children are adults now & swear like troopers, but never in polite company!

(As an aside, my son’s Northern side of the family have a lovely poem that’s been handed down the generations to the children;

Shit bugger arsehole, piss cock fart,
Somebody stole my horse and cart!
Don’t give a bugger
I’ll get another!
Shit bugger arsehole, piss cock fart!

They’re mostly retired & working teachers who are well versed in appropriate use of language!).

*When DD2 was in Y1 she told a boy to 'Fuck off' at school. The teacher had a tiny quiet little word with me about it at the end of the day.

I said that we'd have a discussion, but out of interest had it been in context. The teacher laughed and said she'd asked a boy to leave her alone twice before she said that to him.*

This has made my morning - your girl will go far @NCasIknowMNetters

Love those stories. And that gorgeous poem!

BIL said that it was fine to swear around DC, and that they needed to learn not to use the adults’ words.

DN (4) loudly told him to fuck off (in anger) in front of the entire family (several generations) during a family event. He hit the roof.

I do hope all of the pearl-clutching types are rather more open to discussing the really important, yet horrific things that are happening in this world, with their children.

If a little swearing sends them into a tailspin of having to loosen their stays & get the smelling salts out, then heaven only knows how hard their children may find opening up a dialogue to them about some of the truly horrific fucking things facing us; Boris, Brexit, Climate Change, species extinction (and that’s just on our doorstep, let alone globally).

Those things are really ruddy important to get your knickers in a twist about. The odd expletive is nothing.

Context is everything.

A dd at 4 1/2 once said fuck in front of some very proper family friends, parents of young children (who were present) and their GM.

Dh and I would just have said not to use that word, it was rude, and laughed afterwards, but talk about pearl clutchers - the atmosphere plummeted to Arctic ice.

It def. hadn't come from us - we were living abroad at the time and dd used to get a school bus every day with a lot of much older (English speaking) children, inc. boys of 10 and 11.

We assumed it had come from there, but our explanations cut none of that ice - our names were mud for ages.

@Rubychard

Pissing my self at fuck the pope and heil hitler.

^Hilarious(!)

When DS was a toddler he hadn’t quite got the ‘s’ sound. So when he brandished a large stick at my friend and said “Do you like my dick?”, we couldn’t stop laughing!

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy you're a woman after my own heart! Perfectly sensible attitude towards swearing. And that poem is fabulous!

@misspiggy19

It’s a light hearted thread.
Clutch you pearls elsewhere dear.

I'm a teacher so I'm very good at not swearing all day at work too, thanks

Do you find it ‘hilarious’ when a child swears at work too? It’s usually pretty shocking, and I admit I do judge the parents. Also feel guilty that other chn in the class have to hear it.

My Ds overheard some teenagers, swearing in the park. He thought it was hilarious to shout, 'fuck you!'
It was mortifying, but as with all things, it passed

Well this has also happened to my lovely dd. We were driving and someone pulled out on front of us and I am totally ashamed to say that in my shock I said What a dickhead! She's said it lots of times since. I'm not amused in any way, I've been ignoring it completely and I've tried exclaiming Fiddlesticks while pretending to stub my toe etc and she just finds that hilarious but does not fancy repeating it. I'm aghast.