to think that telling a child is Shut Up on a regular basis is bad parenting?

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My STBXH often told me to shut up. He didn't and still doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

When my 10yr old son told me to Shut Up (I chastised him for saying it but he didn't see a problem - 'Why not say it to you, Dad does?) I was beyond upset.

I know that my EX tells our children to Shut Up. Last night my DD phoned wanting to come home because her Dad had shouted at her and told her to Shut Up again. Am I over reacting to be so upset that this is how he speaks to our DC?

No one should be play so loudly....mind boggle what sort of DC's do you have? Sounds oppressive

Oh well yes of course they will hear if there is cake in the offing Artandco! It's all the other requests that are met with complete indifference.

I often think that the phone acts as some kind of accelerator for crap behaviour, they know you are trapped on it the little toads.

stooshe yep I shk or from the hip too! I will tell my ds if he sounds!looks or behaves stupidly or makes a stupid decision.

I separate the action from the person. He is told plenty enough when he makes us proud/achieves etc too and is rewarded with praise or on some occasions a gift.

Balance and fairness. Tbh I can't stand pussy putting around a problem, some people are too scared to upset there kids and thus let them run around the coffee shop like wild loons. Then they wonder why their children never sit nice like that other families.

However the OP would intimates a picture that is repeated and maybe the ex does not listen have time for his kids is different, like I said context. But whatever went down her dd rang didn't she as she wasn't happy.

Yanbu it does sound aggresive when said to a child.Especially very little ones.

I go with please be quiet/or that is enough.
none of which work

My dd thinks calling someone stupid is swearing
but happily asked me what twat meant in a packed cafe.
from school or she,s a secret MNetter

One of my cousins had a horribly verbally abuse 'stepdad' when he was a young kid(9-11), who constantly told him to shut-up utterwanker, he stopped talking for a year until my Aunt LTB.

It,s just really dismissive, SHUT UP, I,d rather have a full on.hooley than be told to shutup.
But I will watch with interest, on how you all achieve a bit of quiet lifeis one long running commentry with dd nothing works for me.

i wonder what you think of "im ignoring you now"
that just as dismissive ?

when ds2 whines or is throwing a strop i try to clam him/distract but if hes really on one. i clamly say.. "thats it, im ignoring you now. when you can talk to me nicely/stop jumping up and d own" we can talk..

then really just ignore him. it normally works. snaps him out of it.

is that classed the same as shut up?

I remember my mum turning the radio off at that song shuddupayaface in the 70/80's as it was considered swearing by her

She has many strange thoughts like this though, and my own dc enjoy a far less straight-laced childhood than I did.

I've only ever said that a total of 4 times in my DS's 7.5 years, and one of those times was completely accidental. Each time I've apologised because it's a horrible thing to say and because I said it out of anger.

To say it regularly and deliberately is just not right.

wonderingsoul Your example is completely different and not dismissive. It's a technique more than anything.

wonderingsoul 'im ignoring you now. when you can talk to me nicely/stop jumping up and d own" we can talk..'

I think that's fine, you've given a consequence of ds2's whiney strop and an explanation that you'll talk when he behaves in an appropriate manner.

YANBU. We have neighbours with a 3yr old. When the child is crying all I can hear is the dad shouting "STOP! STOP!" which then turns to "SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" repeatedly. The 3yr old continues crying so it obviously doesn't work! It's horrible to hear.

Thanks for the replies. Sorry didn't realise there had been a recent similar thread.

I think I have a particular hatred to it because it was something that made me feel so belittled by my EX. If I said something he didn't like he would say it very aggressively to me, often in front of our DC and even in front of his own Mum.

It's something that I brought up at our Relate counselling so he knows how much it has affected me. It is also included in my divorce petition for unreasonable behaviour, my solicitor has citied it as verbal abuse and not an acceptable way to speak to anyone.

I am so disappointed that he is continuing to tell our DC to shut up, this is not something I want them to think of as a normal thing to say to people but what can I do?

My 5yo thinks it's swearing. I also have an aversion to the word "stupid" as it used to be shrieked at me by (otherwise very mild-mannered) DM.

STBXH sounds like a twat. Doesn't he care that he's upsetting his child?

Its horrible to keep telling a child to shut up. Its cutting off their voice. Also teaching them that they, and what they have to say aren't important/are a nuisance. Always annoys me when adults treat children in a way theyd absolutely hate being treated themselves.

If you have a talker and don't tell the to stop/quiet/shut up then you are teaching by omission to sound like or even become one those self absorbed people people on here complain about.

I tell min to be stop and listen as sometimes shut up as he is a big talker" your response should be tailored to the individual child.

I don't allow him to interrupt. After I finish my convo with another parent say on way home from school I then say right NOW tell me all about your day...

I thought this thread was about a child and mother constantly being told to shut up, and she and children feeling dreadful about it?

We'll yes the thread has discussed context and how shut up is actually said in wider sense in relation to posters experiences also.

It doesn't sound balanced the way the op's ex use the phrase.

thinking yes, that's what struck me, it doesn't sound balanced at all, ex sounds very aggressive.

I think I have a particular hatred to it because it was something that made me feel so belittled by my EX. If I said something he didn't like he would say it very aggressively to me, often in front of our DC and even in front of his own Mum

This is aggression, and its about far more than telling specific people to 'shut up'. This is whats hurting the OP and I don't see why there's a need to point out that children need to be told to shut up at times. The 2 situations do not correlate.

DomesticSlobess, I had upstairs neighbours like that last year. They had two boys, aged 4 and 3, and when they cried (which was a lot) all you could hear from the parents was shouts of 'Shut the fuck up', repeated over and over until the poor children stopped. One night about 1 am I heard the mother shouting at one of the children who was probably having a nightmare 'Shut the fuck up and get the fuck back into bed'.

More than the daily nightmare that is...