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Undesirable vocab in 22mth old

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kiwidreamer · 23/02/2013 21:30

It took DS 4 years to learn the word 'stupid' but thanks to school he soon added that wee gem into his vocab and now DD 22mths is parroting him, over the last few weeks it's gotten really bad, she is saying stupid / stupid head with alarming regularity and in perfect context! We tried ignoring it for a while but she carried on and it got worse so we started saying 'that's not a nice word, we don't say that word' of course made no difference as she's still practically a baby... today I tried redirecting her to say 'silly billy' which she quite liked.

Honestly it sounds terrible on such a little person but the sanctions we put in place for DS just won't work for her, any advice on how to deal with this?

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cloudhands · 24/02/2013 07:02

weirdly I just recently read this article all about a kid saying the word stupid, hope it has some gems of advice for you!

Bad words from good kids

CailinDana · 24/02/2013 08:33

I would ignore. She's too young to understand the meaning of what she's saying.

Locketjuice · 24/02/2013 08:38

My lb says shit :|

Locketjuice · 24/02/2013 08:38

He's 13 months Hmm

BamBamAndPebbles · 24/02/2013 08:42

I would ignore.

And there's far worse she could come out with, and probably will at some point.

MortifiedAdams · 24/02/2013 08:42

Tbh if you dont want the word stupid used at home then tackling it with your older child would have been job one - then your youngest wouldnt have heard it.

What is your response when DC1 udes that word?

bonzo77 · 24/02/2013 08:46

Totally ignore. Any reaction is encouragement. I use terrible language and DS afed nearly 3 has an impressive 4 letter vocabulary. Which he doesn't use because he doesn't get any reaction if answer when he says it though he does tend to say ship not shit which is quite cute

thehairybabysmum · 24/02/2013 08:47

What Mortified said!
My DC's not allowed to use the word in a name calling way; you need to ot allow the eldest to use it and then youngest will not have anything to copy!

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