To find DS2's swearing quite amusing?

[libbyssister]

Just had this conversation with DS2 age 3:

Me: now DS2, were you being silly again in the garden?
DS2: well I was saying fucker again because DS1 was teaching me how to say fucker and I said it was naughty to say fucker but he still kept saying fucker. And Grandma told me that it wasn't nice to use the word fucker so I'm not going to say fucker any more even if DS1 tells me to, as fucker isn't a good word...

All while I was wiping his backside too!!

I'm all for desensitising the word but I'm don't think it's losing it's power even when he uses it 10 times in one sentence!!!

Quite funny tho'. But I'm off to give DS1 a roasting!!

Really?

Not sure I'd find a three-year-old saying 'fucker' very funny tbh.

I wouldn't find it funny either actually, I would be quite embarrassed about it.

Are you one of the Fulfords?

How old is DS1 by the way?

I hate kids swearing, regardless of how young they may be.

I'm wondering where they're hearing that sort of language. I don't think I'd find it amusing.

NO not funny at all.

Yuck.

id be horrified if my 20 somethings had a foul mouth like that, let alone a baby

Yes, you are.

It sounds fucking disgusting to me.

Horrid

Its only a set of letters

so you would be fine with the same kid telling its mother about a nigger in the class? after all, its only a set of letters isnt it

YABU

Sounds funny to me as in the 3 yr old coming up with ways of dating a 'bad' word in way that won't get him in trouble! Not unusual I think

I can see the humour in him saying a word repeatedly while telling you why he wasn't going to say it anymore, but I hate hearing toddlers swear.
I did laugh my head off at my grandad yesterday when he called a pigeon a dickhead under his breath though

Not so funny when he says it in conversations with other adults....they will not know him as the kind and loving boy and will just see a foul mouthed little boy. Sorry but YABVU

DS1 is 7, reckons he learnt it from an older boy in the playground. Both DSs have been thoroughly reprimanded.

Embarrassed? No! It was in our house, not bandied around in public. And it was a one off. They don't dare do this normally.

I was just amused by the matter-of-fact way he was saying it without a care because as a word it means nothing to him.

Not funny at all. I think it is vile and see no reason for using that language

I can see the funny side of that conversation.

Think its horrible hearing very young children swearing and ds, even at 3 and in our house, would have been stopped and corrected first time he said it and not given the oppportunity to repeat it 10 times. At that age you need to be consistent indoors and out so not to confuse them.

Very funny, YANBU. Can't believe so many people are outraged.

Loving the hoiking of bosoms and clutching of pearls on this thread! I think it's pretty funny OP. My son did something similar at around 5 or 6 - found him sitting happily in his bath saying 'cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt' - he had no idea what it meant and had heard it in the park we think. He's turned out just fine by the way!

so i am guessing no-one on this thread's child has ever swore then?

I agree that in the circumstances described, I would find it funny too. I still laugh inside at hearing my then 2 and half year old who couldn't say his K's or R's shout at his 3 and a half year old brother "Twaig! shut that futtin' door!!" ....and no, he didn't learn it from me and yes we didn't encourage him to keep saying it. He is almost 11 now and has the most wonderful vocabulary - as commented on by his teachers and head teacher, and no it doesn't consist of swearing!!

People need to lighten up.