DS keeps saying rude words- really fed up with it!

[lars]

DS is 6 and a half and keeps saying rude words, like I''ve just done a fart, fart face, and he asks vistors have you done a fart, etc, etc.
I 've try to ignore but i'm getting really fed up with it and he has says it numerous times a day- any suggestions please? a fed up larsxx

My strategy for this is to say, very mildly, 'If you want to say those words, could you go to the bathroom to say them, where I don't have to listen to it?'

That generally shuts them up: they've never carried on after that nor dared to say it in front of visitors -- not sure what I'd do if they did, but it would involve going ballistic in some form. I think they know they'd live to regret it.

Ds, 4 yrs too says words like that and really odd made up words that leave me a little confused. I look at it and asume this phase will pass like most other phases. Unless my ds is being relly rude and cheeky, I don't let it bother me. Any visitors I have usually know my ds and they are not bothered too much. It can be embarassing if you don't really know the visitor too well, but I just apologise for him to the visitor and they may be bothered by it, but they don't show it.

Mine (5 and 6) do this lars, and it drives me crazy. All I can say is, the more I make a fuss about it, the worse they get. From time to time we threaten a 'swear box'* when it gets very bad, and that sorts them out temporarily.

*They don't actually 'swear' ... but they think they do

It sounds really pathetic, but I really struggle with the whole 'toilet humour thing' ... ds1 thinks the word 'bum' is hysterical, and anything to do with bottoms fascinating. ... It's just so juvenile (!) I guess he really is 6! I don't know why I find it so irritating. When does it stop?

roisin, So i'm not alone in this. It's just really upsets me that he insist on keep saying like oh look there is farty pants- meaning his dad.Ds is a bit of a joker but there is a time and a place for humour and it doesn't sound nice from a 6yr old. Some people say it's attention seeking but I really don't know. For instant I was out with my sister and her son a few weeks ago. My ds said oh look at that girl's fat ar--, I just don't know where he is getting it from. My sister and nephew laughed, not at him though, but this kid is going to get me into alot of trouble. I tell him off and say this is not the way to talk, just to add my dd never talks like this- Im sure he is trying to shock. larsxx

Why dont you start a 'swear' box and every time he says something that you dont like or he knows is off limits then he has to put a fave toy in it or pocket money or forgo something he really likes? It is a phase though, and the more you relax and dont get stressed, then the less likely he is to go on about it. Apologise to guests and just say it is a silly phase ds is going through and to ignore him. 6 yr old boys can be a pain. We have taught ds to say 'pop' instead of fart which, I think, when he is older wont sound as rude as fart!

Collision, thanks for that I will give that a try. larsxx

soap and water.
worked on me when I was little... nothing else did...

my dd says these words too. i told her they werent naughty words at all and she has almost stopped saying them. tho she does say poo-poo head at the moment.

Everytime my boys say something rude on purpose, they lose their TV privilidges for a whole day.

I know they say rude things to each other but they have only said rude words in public twice each.

Although I have to agree that it is generally best to ignore the words to take the attention off the swearing it is Soooooooo hard to ignore a 5 year old chanting 'wank, wank wankety wank'.

All courtesy of church kids club would you believe?!!?

oh dear. that is a bit of a bad word for a child to be saying.

MIsdee, now I know where DD1 gets poopoo head from