To consider teaching DS 8 some swear words

[retainertrainer]

The latest 'thing' in DS's class is knowing 'swears',not using them but just knowing what they are. DS is an innocent soul-he thinks the f word is fart, he thinks the c word is 'cramp' (not even crap!). He's picked up ass and 'blummin'. He never uses these at home or in school,he's very well behaved,no drama.

I think a lot of the kids who say they know swear words are just bull shitting. If they do know them they're certainly not saying them. I'm really tempted to tell him a few mild ones just so doesn't feel left out! I shouldn't should I?

I didn't know any swear words when I went to secondary school and it did me no favours,I had no street cred! It's a way off yet though.

Oh fuckadoodledoo, bold fail.

My husband is an occasional potty mouth. His family all curse. It's kind of a thing in families where they come from. So my DD knows the words, but she doesn't use them. She will say Oh Poo! But that's about it. She subs words like saying Sugar or Bollards, or chump. She knows not to use her own colourful vernacular in polite company.

I got sent out of a classroom aged 6 for saying "blast". Thirty something years on, I still maintain it wasn't even a swear.

I remember the teacher asking me if my mum and dad said such things at home. She was brought to a crashing halt when I replied that I'd learned it off my dad.

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was about 12. I won't let my son get into the same embarrassing situation

My 5yo knows swear words and says 'For fuck's sake' when the iPad doesn't work. She also knows that we don't use them at people nor do we use non-swear words in a derogatory, mocking or negative manner towards others. Words are just collections of sounds, they don't matter, intention matters. By teaching her swear words along with other words I am taking away the power of swear words to shock and hurt, while making sure she understands the underlying lesson which is we do not not use any words to disparage others.

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was about 12.

That sounds like the sort of cruel trick played by an older sibling. A friend of mine told his little sister that lesbian was another word for ballet dancer. She came out to a lot of people before being put right.

In a way it's quite sad that children know swear words especially the "hard core" words at such a young age.

I had heard, bloody, bugger, shit and fart as a child. My cousin told asked me when I was 10 if I wanted to know a swear word to which she whispered "twat". I heard the words fuck and piss in the first year of comprehensive and cunt some years later.

I use them all now, almost on a daily basis and sometimes string a couple together .

My 12 year old is told exactly what the word means in detail if he uses it in front of me. Get lots of red faces...