Oh fucking hell

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The two and a half yr old keeps saying this.

I thought it was that when he said it (in context!) last night, but he's just said it again while looking for a toy.

'Wheres my train? Oh fucking hell, I've lost it'.

Oh fucking hell. What do I do, other than curb by potty mouth and try to ignore it?

I remember saying "shit!" after I dropped hot tea all over my lap.

DD (2) seriously and sadly said, "shit. Shit. Shiiiiiiiiit." repeatedly. I said "that's a word we only use when mummies spill hot drinks. We normally say 'oh dear' don't we?"

I thought I'd got away with it until a month later I heard, "shit. I've split milk on the sofa."

Oh TrueGent, surely you were taught at school that it is frightfully bad manners to point out other people's failings?

DS1 asking 'what's a fucking wanker'? when we were out driving one day, DP had said it.
DS1 was about two iirc.
Still makes me

Apparently as an 18mo my favourite word was bollocks. Do you think that's why i grew up to be a socialist? Just saying the word could have eroded my moral fibre and self sufficiency? Making me live off others hard work by, umm, working and paying tax my whole adult life. I feel so ashamed.

I'll mention your observations of Army life and functions TrueGent to DH, i'm sure he'll piss himself laughing. No one swears like they do when in their mess dress

Ds marched into his childminder's aged 3 and responded to her "good morning" with "i'm a fucking rapper and i might kill you". Luckily she thought it was funny.

This reminds me of a story MIL likes to tell about a time when DH was young and they were waiting in the queue at a supermarket. The lady in front was taking her sweet time to pay and exasperated DH's father, who muttered under his breath "if she doesn't hurry up and fuck off I'm going to be late for work" So DH, a cherubic looking toddler at the time, piped up innocently and sweetly "excuse me lady, can you fuck off or my daddy is going to be late for work?" Apparently she was flustered and found her purse very quickly. MIL was mortified at the time but has since seen the funny side, so you are not alone. DH is still tactless

Like I said. Defensive.

Ah this thread makes me feel a bit better.

Apart from true gent.

Bet you weren't an officer True?

So glad we had a man come along to mansplain to us all and put us all in our place how terribly common we all are for "abusing" our children with the occasional curse word!
Working in child protection as opposed to attending cocktail parties with my senior officers will help me to assure you that swearing in the presence of children (not at them!) is in no way, shape or form abuse.
HTH

Topaz -

My angelic 4 year old ( I can dream) clearly listens more then she lets on.

I get terrible road rage and rant 50% of every journey.
MY sweet innocent church going grandmother in law picked dd up from nursery along with grandfather in law who DETESTS swearing in front of women.
They been sat too long at a junction behind a dithery old dear for dds liking who piped up ' for fucks sake you tossa put your fucking foot down!)
Dd informed me grandad wasn't happy he looked like he was raging and she said grandma went very red and laughed and got told off by grandad....

I'm still not forgiven and I'm probably going to hell.

We had to try to stop people saying "thank-you" to my 18 month old DS. He would say " 'welcome" as in "you're welcome" back. Unfortunately, at the time his "w" sounded more like "f" and it sounded like "fuck 'em".
He once offered my extremely polite mum a bite of his biscuit when we were in a very posh cafe and she said thank you, I thought the woman at the next table gave herself whiplash in turning round to glare at us.

Labour voters seeking to live off other's
Who, what, where. I will have you know I am a working class, minimum wage earning, non labour voting worker.

I can't help it if a teenager calls my DD a cunt and she copies it or if she's earwigging adult conversations. Maybe the teenagers parents are labour voters must remember to ask them who they vote for next time she shouts cunt at my DD.

It always makes a good thread even better when the PO turn up

My middle son had the best case of accidental swearing in our family. Aged three he had a toy frog he carried everywhere. His Grandda said "that's a fine frog, what's his name?" And my son thought for a moment and said "Kunt!" (Slightly Germanic sounding so we assumed a k). His shocked Grandda said "do you mean Kermit?" And my son shook his head vigorously and assured him that no, the frog was most definitely named kunt. And this frog was his favourite toy for ages.

Given that swear words are only appropriate when spoken from the mouths of adults, one could make a strong case that exposing children to them at an early age is a form of abuse.

I swear one day I am going to make a thread that gives all the bullet points of what abuse really is so people understand how to use that correctly.

gertiegusset - how much?

I bet you my DS that you've never spent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a small child. Keep that up for, oh, 3 years (because then you get a break when they start nursery) without uttering a single oath.
If you can manage that, I take my hat off to you sir.

For me, it's like losing one's temper. I accept it's probably me that has the issue here, by the way. I have little to zero respect for people that display anger and aggression in situations that, frankly, don't warrant it - with or without children.

But to see people bellowing at little ones is just nasty. We're the grown-ups - we are in charge. We should control ourselves - both in terms of our emotions and the language we use to express said emotions.

Fuck off.

You have really never spent that much time alone with small children, have you?

TrueGent get a hold of yourself. They're just words!

But to see people bellowing at little ones is just nasty.

A? Who is 'bellowing' at their dc? . This is about muttering shit when you drop something and your dc repeating it at a later embarrassing moment isn't it? I don't think any of us are saying we stand in the supermarket screeching obscenities at our kids