To find this unacceptable in front of a child?

[KatyKopykat]

I'm sitting on a bench reading. Family comes along mum dad and son 10 or 11 and sit down eating ice cream. A wasp starts buzzing around and the dad shouts "F-ing bastard. F-ing cu next Tuesday". It gets on his cornet and he drops it, swears again, puts it in the bin and kicks hell out of the bin. Then storms off and sits on a wall across the road. Mum and son laugh about him and take the Mickey. I felt quite disturbed sitting near them.

Really? It doesn't make me faint, but you'd really be fine walking past a Primary school playground where the children are all effing and blinding at each other?

The boy will be going up to secondary school now so he's going to hear it all.

It's horrible behaviour. What would he do if something major annoyed him? I wonder.

If he loses his shit over something so tiny, he's probably be a nightmare in a real emergency.

Awful language, awful example to set his Dc, awful lack of control.

I'd think he was stupid and lacking self-awareness.

He was brought up like that and his DC will bring up their own children in the same way, and so it continues.

Was it just one kick to the bin? I can’t tell if the dad was trying to make his family laugh by comically overreacting, or if he has rage issues. If the family was laughing, I’d lean toward trying to make his family laugh.

Op says he kicked the hell out of it.

My concern would be that he didn’t actually kill the wasp, and his actions could lead to him, or someone else, being stung. Complete stupidity in addition to the foul language.

You don't spend much time around big groups of kids do you? 🤣 even if you never swear, I guarantee your kids do once they get to school

More pathetic that a minority thinks it's ok for a young child to swear. But different values and morals for different people I guess.....

Oops. Meant for tessabelle74 of course...

And there it is people. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree and all that.....

If you don't like swearing DO NOT let your teenager play games online 😂

I agree with this. No wonder some kids are so foul mouthed. Also, though, I think that if people are using such language in such an everyday situation, where do they go to escalate their anger and frustration? The next level up is violence and aggression, as indeed happened in this case.

Seems to me that the people who don't swear are very snarky. Have a read amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-wellness/index.html

You don't spend much time around big groups of kids do you? 🤣 even if you never swear, I guarantee your kids do once they get to school

I haven't said I never swear. I can say I don't hear the primary aged children where I live swearing away.

Can you not read? My mum doesn't swear so I fell very far from that tree didn't I? Now go back to clutching your pearls and work on your reading comprehension

My kids are not allowed to swear, but I know they do because I'm not naive. My swearing has absolutely zero bearing on my parenting, or my morals and like I said, judgy people like you are much more likely to be unpleasant than people who swear now and again

Head into your local town centre at the weekend and listen properly. Get your child to take the headphones off playing online games and open your ears. You'll be surprised what they say when they think you're not listening

You're pretty patronising, aren't you.
I have an adult and teenage son. They swear. I swear.

If I head into town I don't tend to see gangs of primary school aged children.
My sons did not play the sweary xbox games at Primary school. Some children did, for sure.

This is my experience. Your seem to live in an area where young children are quite different, and that is your experience.

Your post says more about you than me. Oh and I reported your potty mouth too 😉

It depends who they’re modelling at home.

He sounds a prince among men, let’s be thankful we’re not his partner and move on.

I live in a very "naice" village actually 🤣 yet the parents here think nothing of snorting coke off the pub loo and their kids are walking around the village until all hours whilst they're down the pub which they then drove home from. Swearing is a minor issue amongst that, yet apparently I'M the one with an issue when they decide to piss in the hedge outside my house at 2am when I was asleep. I'll keep on swearing and making sure my kids are at home with me in the evenings. And yes, I was meant to be patronising because kids swear, ALL of them, if you don't believe yours were swearing at primary school then I have some magic beans you may be interested in

He kicked it several times and stormed off. His wife and son weren't laughing when he was doing it. The wife laughed to the son when he'd gone across the road probably to defuse the situation.

I don't understand remarks that the child will have heard effing and jeffing all over the place. Of course they will have as it's everywhere. That doesn't make it socially acceptable.