Dd1 said the F word!

[Marne]

This morning dd1 (2.3) wanted to go on the pc to watch mr tumble, i was busy (on mn) and i said 'no dd, wait', she looked up and said 'FFS'

Where did she hear that from? We try our best not to swear in front of our kids.

She must of heard it from dh because thats the sort of thing he say's.

How can i get it into her head that its naughty to say the F word?

I feel like a bad mummy

i wold just say, i don't want to hear you say that again.

but don't make too big a deal. try and ignore it if you can so that she doesn't learn that she will get a reaction.

you aren't a bad mum! kids do tend to pick these things up surprisingly quickly

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At that age its better to ignore, you should find it stops before long.

my dts used to say sh#t alot, I ignored, but praised every other new word they would learn, and it stopped.

ignore imo

they pick stuff up so easily, just tell her its naughty and dont make a big deal of it and she probably wont bother again. ds1 called me a beach a little while ago (hes 7). i think maybe he misheard a different word

I'd ignore it for now. Make sure that no-one uses bad language in front of her, if she doesn't hear it maybe she'll forget it, but if she she hears it around her then she won't realise that it's unacceptable. Don't make a fuss otherwise the word is likely to be repeated for effect.

If she uses it again just say, calmly, "We don't use that word", and distract her.

my dd started to use s##t at that age as well. Like other here I think its best to ignore it. If she sees no reaction then she'll get bored of it.

DD has come out with some bits and we have told her that they are naughty words and not to say them.

If on the rare occasion we swear infront of her now and she hears us, she says don't say that again, they're naughty words

DS1 (3 at the time) said that (very loudly) when he was frustrated with a toy at a busy church BBQ

I didnt make too much of a big deal of it and fortunately he has never said it since - to my knowledge

Try not to make too much of it hun. I can still remember the first time my DD came out with it. She will hve picked it up from somewhere as mine did, we never swore in front of her so the chances are she'll pick it up somewhere else. I agree with some of the others, don't make too much of it or it will become a new challenge for her to maybe say it or effect. I didn't go ballistic, just said something like Oh that's not a very nice word it sounds horrible, please don't say it again etc. Unfortunately the sad thing is as they get older they will mix with children who's parents come out with the F word as the norm and it does get repeated more and more. Personally I don't find it shocking any more, probably because you hear it so many times on TV etc you sort of become numb to it but I still hate to hear kids saying it. My DD told me the other day that she was at "a friend of a friend's" house and the Mum was on the phone to someone and she put the phone down and then said "Oh f@@k of" in front of DD and friends and I've heard parents in the town swearing like that at their children. So no, you're not a bad Mum at all