To hardly be able to keep a straight face- even though it's terrible!

[BackToB4Beatrice]

DD, 2.5, just said "fuck's sake"!

In context. I said "DD, you need to come here and get your pyjamas on." She said "Fuck's sake".

I asked her again, she repeated it.

We don't even really swear that often .

I didn't say anything, tell her off, laugh, nothing. I'm presuming this is the best thing to do at 2.5?

my friends niece calls ice cream cones "arse cream porns" which makes me grin. He couldn't say frog for ages and called them 'fucks'. Ditto my cousin who called trains 'fucks' but no one knows why

My DTS1 can count, 'one, two, three, fuck,five'.

Nothing on this planet will convince him it is four! I just try and curtail the counting when we are out and about - but TBH his speech is not great anyway so it can sound a bit rude a lot of the time!

IME, it's absolutely right to ignore it. You will make it into a bigger deal than it needs to be if you do anything else, aside from no longer saying these things in front of the DC if you know it's you they're getting it from!

My DS was just learning to talk and at they stage when they play with sounds. I got funny looks in the Butcher's queue when he was singing very loudly "wanky, wanky, wanky, wanky wank"!

When my DS was about 2.5 he startled some strangers by standing up at the top of a slide and shouting what sounded like "Buzzer off!" v loudly. We honestly don't know where he got this from as it's not a word we use and he didn't persist with it - trying to say something else? Radio 4? That might sound stupid but I've heard a few swear words on there in the middle of the day and I'm stumped otherwise

I try to watch my language around DS, esp as swearing like a navvy does indeed seem to come as part of the package if, like me, you are unfortunate enough to come from the Central Belt of Scotland. Where I grew up a neighbour's toddler did have 'fuck's sake' as part of her vocabulary at about the same age as OP's, and that did shock me a bit TBH.

DS likes to say "Mummy don't say DAMN!" when I look like I am getting annoyed. Can I eventually become 'naturalised' English? No? Oh well...

DN says dick when she wants a drink. There's something fairly disturbing about her saying "Daddy dick" to my brother when we're in the park!!

When my dd was 3 a bouncy castle van drove past us and she said nice and loud "I just want a fucking bounce castle!!" in an exasperated voice!

I am very glad my DD when aged 2 (now 32) did not need to ask in public (very often) for a f OR k to eat her meals ...... took her such aloooooooooong time to prounounce OR rather than U.

*fuzzpig", we had "oh bubba" for ages! Good job no "g"'s here either

OP, just carry on calmly. Don't react and she'll probably forget she knows how to say it. If she does keep going (as DS did with "oh bubba"), I started saying "No, darling, we don't say that, we say "Oh Fiddlesticks!"

OTOH, Daddy just shouted "Oh bollocks" at the FA Cup Final...to hear a happy, delighted 3.3yo echo! DH looked mortified

DD has had speech and literacy delay due to hearing problems. Imagine my delight when she was in Reception and one morning said, "F.U.C.K. - FUCK Mummy". I said, "Excellent sounding out darling, I'm so proud of you, but it says F.C.U.K." She was reading the label on my jeans!

Yeah totally best to ignore at that age bravo for correct use though
unless she starts to use it daily, there's no point to make a big deal of it.
My middle DS at around 3 years old learned and used exactly the same words but he correctly put the stressed "Ahhh" at the front. Ignored him, told him off and eventually what got him to stop was that my crazy DM told him the birds in the garden were listening and would bite his tongue if they heard him say that again, a little harsh-maybe but it worked and he hasn't got a bird phobia

somedayma - trucks (as in constantly referred to in Thomas and Friends)

My 10MO says, 'Bugger, bugger, bugger'

I think she means book and I'm sticking to it

Thanks for all your comments!

Like I said, we are not actually very "sweary" at all. My word of choice actually tends to be bollocks tbh, rarely say Fuck at all.

Although- the poster that linked her DH and the football as an example of how to swear may be onto something.........possibly the only time DH swears is when the footballs on.

She doesn't even go to nursery- so I can't even blame it on that.

Just going to pray if she doesn't hear it again she will forget it!

I remember when DD2 was about 3 - she sitting innocently doing a puzzle, got to the last bit and she said 'Oh fuckin' hell, the last piece has gone!'
I didn't know what to do, so in a high pitched voice, trying not to laugh, I just said 'Oh so it is DD2!'

Where we live there are always horses going up and down (normally when I'm running late), and we were rushing to get somewhere when we got near to some horses so slowed down and I sighed a bit. I could hear DD2 (again..) in the back saying 'Oh! fuckin' horses!' and then sighed!

yes my 2.5 yr old ds favorite word was "Fucking" always said in perfect context. we were living with my sister for four months and one day she tripped over the cat and said it. for over a month my ds said it in context constantly. i told him off for something he clenched his fists and screamed "fuuuucking".
how embarrassing having to tell nursery about it.
he never said it at nursery and we moved out from my sisters house two months ago and hes said it once since then.
i ignored him most of the time but when it became apparent he knew exactly what he was saying i would tell him it was very naughty don't say that word he stopped. it did piss me off as i try my hardest never to swear in front of him and to get this far for someone else to teach him it grrrr!

Dd was less than 2, when, after breaking up a fight between her and her brother, she walked past him, gave him an evil stare, and called him a 'fucking little bastard'! I have NEVER used those words in that context in front of my kids, I have no idea where it came from! I was torn between and

PMSL saggy!!

I don't think I could help myself with not laughing at that!

The only thing dd (4) has ever said is shit I then said " what did u say?!" her answer was " nothing mummy I said shoot"

My friend had to stop doing or reading anything involving foxes as her DD couldn't say it and it caused funny looks....

DS is 2.3 and we have finally cured him of "for fuck's sake" and "oh, fuck" (courtesy of DH) by replacing it with "mama mia!" complete with dramatic slapping of hands onto face (courtesy of DH's brother). I am very relieved.

Friends of mine had a 4x4 vehicle that they used to call the "truck". Their youngest DS, when he was under 3 had trouble saying 'T' and used to embarrass his parents whenever he got bored whilst out shopping by saying loudly that he "wanna go fuck now", whenever he wanted to go back to the car.

harassed me too, and a few years ago now DD was in the back of the car when someone cut me up. With remarkable and rare restraint I said
"Oh you twwww...it" only for DD to pipe up from the back
"No mummy, the word you want is twat"

DD was a very late and indistinct talker. For ages she said "fuck you" for "thank you", which led to many awkward moments when little old ladies would pick up some toy she'd dropped and give it back to her. She also referred to The Fat Controller from Thomas as the "fuck cunt". Ah bless that speech impediment!

I wouldn't worry too much unless it becomes a habit, OP, in which case tell her that it's not acceptable language. It might have been a fluke, in which case you don't want to draw attention to it.

we used the expressions 'skiff off' and 'skiffing heck' and 'oh sugar butties' as 'swear words' when dc were young-oh how they spread round the school