to hate parents who swear?

[ditsydoll]

So I have just been sat on the bus with DD and behind us where a woman and man with 3 young children effing and blinding about some woman. I ended up getting up and moving down the bus as Dd was listening and id rather she didn't repeat any of the choice language.

It's so unfair that we try so hard to protect our children and set a good example and they pick it up from some horrid other person on the bus, I feel sorry for their poor children.

A friend once told me he passed a workman in the street digging the road with one of those hand held digger things. The digger wasn't working well and he heard the bloke say "Oh fuck, the fuckin fuckers fucked" to the other workman. Now that's good swearing!

Ultrabof Apart from the fact that it was a joke, my point was it's the only the working class that have a problem with other people swearing.

Ok, I misunderstood. I thought you were parodying people who disapprove of swearing in front of kids as somehow anti-working class. Wrong end of the stick then.

Stormybrid just a question; if your BIL swears in front of your nieces all the time, how do they learn when it is or when it isn't appropriate?

Ken I don't think bloody,bugger and shit are going to cause a breakdown in society.
But cunt or wanker would definitely make me twitch.

I don't like any swearing (even on Mumsnet ) - hate the way so many people seem to think it is more or less 'normal' language; fortunately I don't seem to hear much swearing in the company I mix with .

No probs, Ultra

I don't swear and am slightly judgey of parents who swear in front of their children. Possibly a bad character trait of mine.

But Ken not directed towards them.
I don't mind if my kids swear appropriately when they're adults,so long as they can manage to not swear if it's not appropriate.

amigababy they learned when they were very small and in the parroting words phase - if they came out with an expletive they'd be told not to say it in front of Granny or at nursery, for example. They were also told why - not all parents want their kids hearing those words, and Granny would hit the roof. I should clarify that by "all the time" I mean at home, rather than when they're out and about. Can see it not working so well if my brother in law was expecting them to follow rules he didn't follow himself.

My parents' only swear words were Curse words, such as " drat it, sugar," from mum and " ruddy, bugger it", from dad but used seldom., but I have had some eyebrows critically raised when I said " sod it, shit and what bullshit/crap" but again only as curse words, and usually at myself !! Except for the latter.

I quite like the word " wanker", I find it somehow amusing ??!! Not that I would use it. Oh, I do sometimes say as a curse word" Bloody hell".But cringed when my daughter as a teenager said " bleeding" used as an adjective.

I have a very bad mouth. I swear too much. I swear what ever mood I'm in. I don't swear at my son though.

I was going to say that I never swear at somebody, but just remembered years ago when I was in very early weeks of pregnancy, I did tell someone to Bloody well fuck off", and was shocked at myself, but was feeling sick and ratty at the time. .

Another one who agrees with monkeyface

My ds (6) can reel of a list of swear words (not all heard coming from my mouth, but some I'm sure...particularly whilst I'm driving... ) however, he knows that he's not to say them. I always watch my language around children, but they hear things. It doesn't make their precious ears bleed or anything. Nor does it mean that they will become a sweary potty mouth with no respect for anyone. I promise

Oh, and I also dislike the word 'hate'.

I think its disgusting to swear around your kids,
This is why I think the working classes shouldn't have children.

Whats it got to do with your class?
I grew up working class no one swore around us at all, I am with Lyingwitchinthewordrobe I don't use swear words in any speech around my children or others, I did however drop the F bomb on Dh one day many years ago when we were alone and his jaw dropped and he knew I was at the end of my tether! Apart from that it's not needed I can express myself just fine without swearing.

Read the thread California.
Actually, as you obviously can't be arsed. It is in fact the working classes that have a problem with other people swearing. They are the people that tend not to swear and have a problem with others doing so. Point proven by your post, I do believe.

I get really angry about this too OP,
a) if my kids pick this up its hard to get them to stop.
b) people will assume its my fault when it isnt :(

I actually did read it I must have missed a bit somewhere along the way.
The people I do know who swear the most are as working class as you could be. So I don't believe your theory for a minute.
I also don't have a problem with other people doing it, they will do whatever they want no matter what anyone thinks. I don't see much point in it myself and don't have need to do it.
I taught my kids not use swear words out of politness and so far it has worked, I'm pretty sure they use them. Just that I've never heard them swear.

I'm rather sweary.

I would never swear at the children, obv, but I frequently swear in their presence.

They know swearing is for adults; they don't swear.

Another vote for monkeyface. Also I think a little admiration could be spared for the "fuck" word, it's surely the most versatile word in the English language?