To hate it when people swear in front of young children?

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Namely their own young children? It makes toes curl!

Just popped into my local Chinese takeaway. Also waiting was a young couple with a little boy who must have been aged around 4/5. Im not joking when I say every single word was 'fuck' this and 'fuck' that. Just in general conversation even when speaking to and telling off their little boy, who wasn't misbeahing as such was just getting a bit over excited. Even telling him to 'stop fucking running around'.

There is just no need for it, it's so uncouth and shows a blatant lack of self control. Now don't get me wrong I can swear with the best of them, but I never ever swear in front of children of any age. Never have and never will. The worst I ever heard my parents say growing up was 'bloody'. It's becoming more common, I even heard a mother telling her daughter to 'get in the fucking car' outside the local school the other week.

AIBU to think these people should learn some self control?

Exactly..imo it's much worse to call a child "stupid" than to say "oh for fucks sake, the dishwasher has broken again" within their earshot

Exactly Always, here we are misering about swearing in front if the little darlings, whilst every day across the world, children are subject to and witness horrors that are unimaginable, even to us adults. Not saying that one excuses the other of course, but perspective is important.

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I was thinking about this when I hear they add every single word they spoke, Specially front of children. My worst bad word is bloody

From another perspective, I have a medical condition which causes me to swear uncontrollably at times. It is not very severe, so don't 'accidentally' swear around my dc very often but nothing I can do about it if I do. Like others have said, there is a big difference in swearing at children and swearing in front of them. I have said cunt in front of my 2 year old a number of times and he hasn't repeated it (yet!) but if he did, there's nothing much I'd be able to do about it, would probably just ignore!

I had a dream before ds was born that he would be taken by ss as they said (in the dream) that I would be verbally abusing him. I bet an awful lot of parents on here would judge me if you saw me out with my kids. But there are worse things that children can be subjected to than swearing!

Just to balance the argument, I'm highly educated and don't swear around kids...

I object to meaningless effing and blinding throughout every sentence, regardless of strength of feeling. It adds nothing. It tends to be hard for people who speak like that to stop, which is not great for their employment prospects.

Kids tend to manage to adjust at school, after a few requests from their nursery teacher.

It's one of those individual freedoms that impinges on everyone within hearing distance. Being trapped on a tram with a group of sweary teens...exhausting because of the implied aggression.

I swear a lot. Around my kids too. None of them repeat it and never have. They tell me off or roll their eyes at me, in a way reminiscent of a young, posh Kelly Osborn telling Ozzy 'daddy don't SWEAR!'
Also, do you think we'll ever get past this myth that swearing= a lack of vocabulary? Because its really not true.

I swear in front of mine. Always have. Again, extremely good education, extraordinary vocabulary. I've even been known to swear in more than one language!

Oh ffs. Being smug about dd stopping backfired this morning as she let rip a load of fucks sake in front of herNanny (skilfully ignored by Nanny)

For you great

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I must be a genius! ^^

Sorry, I meant, "I must be a FUCKING genius!"

I have this problem with my ex. He constantly swears at and in front of my ds's aged 3 and 4. Stupid thing is we are going through court atm and my lawyer is bringing that up. You would think he would have enough self control to stop swearing in front of the boys while going through family court.

I'm with imadaftcoo on this one. They're just words. The art of swearing is knowing when it is or isn't acceptable to do it! I too have very well educated family who swear like troopers and swear like a Navvy myself as an adult but never did it at school, wouldn't do it at work, and I expect my kids to have the intelligence to understand that it's all about context.

Saying it's uncouth makes you sound a bit Hyacinth Bouquet.

Fucking Precisely wookie!