2 year old told the Vicar to f**k off

[jamie1986]

First, allow me to apologise, I'm not technically a mum or a parent. I'm an uncle who got custody of his nephew because my sister is schizophrenic. This is a long story so bare with me... :)

I work full time and on a morning and evening I call in on my elderly grandmother who has heart failure so, as guilty as I feel about it; I have to leave my nephew with a nanny since I also work full time. I collect him at 5.30 after work and we go to gran's and do whatever needs doing and while I was there the Vicar was visiting. The Vicar asked my nephew how old he was and my nephew casually told him to fade away.

Now more sob story... I have ulcerative colitis and at a clinic I asked a nurse who told me to chastise him pretty firmly. I'm also a part time student at the Open Uni and my tutor there said I should just pretend it's just another word. Any advice on here? Do I go with the nurse or the tutor, both of whom have experience with children? (More worryingly should I assume he learned it from the nanny since I certainly haven't said it in front of him?)

Sorry for the long post and interruption of a girly forum but any advice would be really appreciated.

Very common in DCs this age & telling him off for it is VERY bad advice - it will become his new favourite word when he sees it gets your attention - besides he is too young to understand the telling off - no point in doing that until thy are older

Simply repeat something back to him that is harmless, but sounds similar - for example, when my DD came home at 2 having learned to tell people to Piss off - on the advice of a Nanny friend I calmly said in a quizzical way, I don't know that word Do you mean FISH FLUFF

Cue DD wandering around for a week or so repeating Fish Fluff now & again & then forgot all about it

Find a replacement that suits him & take is from there - good luck & what a great person you sound to be :)