Fucksticks

[LookAtTheFlowersKerry]

I said this last night in earshot of DS2 (5).

He thought it was hilarious and kept repeating it, except he said 'F-word Sticks'.

I thought he would have forgotten all about it this morning but he's still banging on. 'Haha Mummy you said 'f-word sticks' yesterday '.

I've got just over a week before he goes back to school. Please tell me he'll have forgotten all about it by then. We've had a letter home recently about the children using bad words in the playground, which turned out to be 'penis' and 'poo' so they have a low tolerance for colourful language.

I'm going to be ostracised by the other parents, aren't I?

Fucksake.

I'm adopting that word, or adapt it to Fucklesticks.

Fucksticks is one of the poshest swearwords I've ever heard. I have a potty mouth, only one of my children ever repeated the words, although not anymore as he knows it's ugly and unpleasant. The others are just embarrassed by me.
The school sent a letter home though? Can they not just ask the children not to say the words or just ignore it? A letter home seems like major over kill.

Ignore, brazen it out. He will soon loose interest.

Ds: You said fucksticks.
You: I know.

My DS has some issues with speech but has managed to pick up "Oh, for fahrk's sake!"

FML.

I don't believe in ignoring it, especially since he's 5 and presumably old enough to understand that it's a word you shouldn't have said.

Tell him if he repeats it at school, he'll be in a lot of trouble with the teacher and with you too, now you've told him he mustn't say it.

I do love Fucksticks though

I think I might adopt this for myself.

Tell him he'll lose his breaks at school if he repeats it. And he'll lose things at home. It's not for him.

My DN (age 3) heard his mum say 'BumFaces' which he thought was a super-bad swear word and still says sometimes, a year later. So your DS might not forget.....!

Go on YouTube and look up the song Fucksticks by Kunt and the Gang

I love Fucksticks.

I'm careful around DD but things do slip out within earshot! Bollocks has become bubbles and fuck has been replaced with fudge.

So not the same.

My DS loves a good secret swear, he is only 5! I hear him whispering the words sometimes, which I know is terrible and he gets admonished. However he won't do it at school. At all. He is very particular about that, and is a total grass if he overhears a class mate say something mild - like bum!

I reckon, he will know not to say it. Especially if you emphasise the importance of not saying it.

He recently sang his Nanny a rhyme that goes:
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Grandad got his gun.
Shot Nanny in the Danny
5,4,3,2,1

I had literally no words.

Arghhhhh, autocorrect. Nanny in the fanny!

Thanks to my DP my DS was telling us all to fuck off! DP thinks it's hilarious! They're currently visiting DP's parents so hopefully DS will tell MIL what I've been wanting to say for the last 15 years!

(He's 2!)

How does a 5 year old know to change 'fuck' into 'the f-word'?

You may well be rightly ostracised.

tell him it was fudgesticks

Sorry, what? The school have a problem with the words penis and poo???

My kids call them penises. Coz they are.