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To find DS2's swearing quite amusing?

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libbyssister · 22/07/2012 17:28

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!!

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noelstudios · 22/07/2012 22:08

I think it is funny. But then I'm secretly pleased that my 9 month old twins have started giggling at each other's burps and farts. Not that I was encouraging it....

bobbledunk · 22/07/2012 22:57

yanbu, it's funny

thebody · 22/07/2012 23:18

My friends son was heard chanting 'mother sucking banker' as he had apparently heard the milkman say it to another driver.

Have to say my friend was mortified but made me chuckle.

Hate parents who swear in front of their kids though, as in all the time and not just after stubbing toe iucwim..

Sighingagain · 22/07/2012 23:21

My ds is convinced his woody swears - absolutely convinced

It's very hard to keep a straight face when he is earnestly try to explain - to the point of pulling the string to get to the point.

We have been reduced to putting woody on the naughty step and on occassion to bed for swearing repeatedly.

rogersmellyonthetelly · 23/07/2012 07:48

my dd once embarrassed like this in front of my mother at age 3 saying "bloody hell fire mummy" when I did something daft, complete with hands on hips and rolling eyes. It's a phrase I use only in extreme circumstances and not (so I thought) in front of the kids. Turns out my daughter has ears like a bat, and it wasn't the last time she has come out with stuff I have muttered under my breath through clenched teeth.
As it was both my mother and I spent the next 5 minutes trying to tell dd off whilst wetting ourselves laughing. She hasn't said it again thank goodness and is 6 now. So yes, in your situation I would have been amused, but generally kids swearing is not nice.
For all those with judgy pant wedgies, the younger child had clearly heard the language from an older sibling, and sadly once they start playing out and going to school, they are exposed to this sort of language fairly regularly regardless of whether the parents are foul mouthed or as pure as the virgin Mary.

TerracottaPie · 23/07/2012 08:14

It is funny

Of course children shouldn't swear and it isn't nice to hear them do it but when they accidentally hear a word and copy it is funny. Yes you don't show you think it is and yes you do explain why they shouldn't say the word again but inside it's ok to think it funny!

My 9 year old probably knows a lot more than I think she does but she knows swear words are horrible and doesn't say them.

My 7yo learnt fuck the other day. They were getting changed after swimming and I had the baby changing table pulled down for their brother when I heard 'Fuck you. Fuck you. What does fuck you mean Mummy?' I thought she can't be saying what I think she's saying. She can't be! She must be reading something wrong?

She wasn't.

Some lovely person had written it on the changing table and when it was folded up it wasn't visible. I complained and it was gone the next lesson.

She's never said it again as we had a good talk about it all. But I doubt she's forgotten it!

And it is a funny story to tell people. Although I had to warn my Mum I was going to swear when I told her!

Keepcalmanddrinkgin · 23/07/2012 15:29

I think some people need to pull the stick out of their arse bottom.
It's not like the op encourages her children to swear.

forehead · 23/07/2012 16:15

I think it is funny. Some posters need to get over themselves.

whois · 23/07/2012 19:17

Massively funny, YANBU. Wonder why everyone is outraged? The kid was just reporting 'fuckers' in a totaly innocent way (an hopefully won't be saying it again because he has has now been told its naughty)

50shadesofstress · 23/07/2012 21:04

I am quite suprised at how many people are outraged about this!

My 3 year old has one similar things to this and in the privacy of my own home I stifle a giggle and reprimand him suitably. He called his brother a 'fucker' sounded like it was in context so I did wonder where he had heard it. He said it again a few days later in a completely random context so I think he had probably heard 'fuck' or 'fucking' at the football and just made it into fucker.

I grew up in a household of people swearing and never once swore in front of an adult or publically with other children as I was taught what was right and wrong. You can't shelter children too much, I think people are being a bit 'precious' over this!

50shadesofstress · 23/07/2012 21:07

Oh actually I lie - I did swear in front of adults once - I called my little brother 'a little shit' when I was 2 (he was a few weeks old) - I can only assume its something my dad called me at times!

pictish · 23/07/2012 21:16

Jeezo, what a glut of po faces on here!!

Everyone knows that little kids swearing is universally hilarious!

No it's not to be encouraged we all KNOW that, most of us are intelligent enough to instill manners in our kids, but it takes a real lemon sucker not to hide a smile at the odd fuck or bugger.

ThePathanKhansWitch · 23/07/2012 21:18

FlogginMolly I always thought it was "Little amuses the innocent, far less the fool".

Pearl clutching galore, in the context you've explained OP not offensive at all.

whatsonyourplate · 23/07/2012 22:24

My 4 year old ds is at the stage of making up his own (non-funny) jokes, but I had to bite my lip to stop myself laughing at this one:
"What do you call toast when you're cross with it?
Fucking Hell toast"

pictish · 23/07/2012 23:28

hahaaaa!

Yeah I like it.

pictish · 23/07/2012 23:33

I can't remember where I read it but there was a tale on a forum of a little girl who told her nursery teacher "I've shat myself".
The teacher, taken aback said "I beg your pardon?" and the little girl stated "I SAID I've SHAT MYSELF!"

God I laughed at that.
One for the christmas table...every year.

Meglet · 23/07/2012 23:35

I wouldn't be impressed. I have a foul mouth but have never sworn anywhere near the children, if they're out the house I swear left, right and centre. Mind you, I have never heard my parents swear and I ended up talking like a squaddie.

But, no it's not funny when little kids say it.

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libbyssister · 24/07/2012 09:23

whatsonyourplate

Brilliant

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