HELP!! how to stop 2 year old saying "FFS"; don't know where he picked it up[blush]

[peasoup]

Two days ago he started saying "FFS" when he dropped something or couldn't do a bit of a jigsaw or couldn't get two bits of lego together and now two days later he is saying it SOOO often!! I can't stand it; don't know where he heard it and have no idea what tactics to use to get him to stop saying it. Got to stop him before my Mum hears; she'll hit the roof. And the nanny heard him and she was pretty shocked .
I've tried to say "oh for God's sake" whenever he comes out with "FFS" in the hope that he'll start saying that instead which would not be great but would be a darn sight better than the current situation. He says it SOOO clearly!! And he seems to be enjoying saying it over and over again!!! I've tried ignoring it but he seems to have sensed that he shouldn't be saying it which is why he's enjoying saying it so much. We haven't been out much but I'm dreading him coming out with it at Mum and Toddlers Groups, etc. He already said it in the canteen of my friends work today in front of eight of her work mates and everyone looked aghast! It sounds so horrible coming from a 2 year old. Please give me any advice you have on how to nip this in the bud. Before Grandma visits on saturday preferably!!!! Obviously i have already decided me and DH need to totally watch what we say from now on- it's just that he started learing to talk so quickly he kind of caught us unawares, just two months ago he could only say "juice" and now he can say almost everything! Including FFS....

Sorry but rofl that is kinda funny - mmm teach him to say bollocks????

ahem. sorry. Why not try gently to say....

"that it isn't an 'appropriate' thing to say"

and "what else could you say?"

"let's say oh bother! instead' 'go on, let's practise! Oh Bother Oh BOTHER!!!!!"

Yeah Sally my DH tried to get him to say "Fat Steak" instead but TBH I think that will just make him sound like he's saying FFS but pronouncing it badly. Especially in the context of him trying to fit as particularly tough bit of puzzle into a hole it's just not fitting into or another frustratng situation that calls for "FFS". He says it with just the right frustrated intonation; it's scary. I've tried "Oh Bother" and he has picked that up but he seems to prefer "FFS"!! I dont'knwo wjether to tell him off or ignore him.

Similarly, my 2 year old starting saying F**K when he couldn't get a piece of jigsaw in... so me, his dad, grandparents, childminder, etc all took the tactic of TOTALLY IGNORING IT. No reaction whatsoever seemed to work. He stopped saying it pretty quickly.

We also amde sure that everyone who was in contact with him was told that he'd picked up a rude word from somewhere so could they make doubly sure that they didn't swear in front of him! hope that helps.

Thanks Bealos. will try to ignore it. Trouble is when he says it in front of others their reactions are pretty big. I'll have to warn people as you say

Could you 'invent' a really 'bad' swear word? You know... dp could pretend to bash his elbow and shout 'Oh BEANO!' and you could act all shocked and dp could laugh and say 'BEANO, BEANO' and you could tell him off for saying it.

ds will soon join in and forget FFS.

Or am I just mad?

my 2 year old son went through a stage of saying the f word, especially in the middle of twinkle twinkle little star, to be fair, the first thing everybody did was laugh because it was hilarious and totally shocking but we soon had to ignore it and once he realised that he wasn't getting a reaction, he stopped doing it!!! good luck for saturday!!!

ignore, ignore ignore whenever he says it but then talk to him about what a nasty word it is when he's not actually doing it and let him know that you feel really sad to hear him saying it and want to cry.

Dd1 seems to be picking swear words up and often say's FFS, i picked her up from nursery last week and was trying to fasten her belt in the car, she looked up and said 'FFS Stay still' , i tried not to laugh, strapped her in and drove off.

She also heard dh say 'shit' and repeated it. Naughty daddy.

My ds picked up "f**k it" when he was that age.It was over hearing me when I dropped my keys and was really stressed...god I was so shocked,he was in the car at the time I was at the front door ...and he still heard it.
Said it at M&T right next to churchy lady running it ..clear as a bell..I was mortified.

Thankfully with a suitable over emphasised substitute ..think it was fiddlesticks or something,and ignoring he stopped after a few weeks.

I feel for you it was nerve wracking when we went out..ignore,ignore,ignore.

Thank you! Yes, he said it clear as a bell in Mum and Toddlers today. The only Mum that heard it thought it was hilarious luckily and didn't seem to be thinking that I was a scummy, rough, crude parent type (that's my fear!) He's actually said it less today than yesterday (about thirty times yesterday!) so hopefully ignoring it or saying "For God's sake" or "Bother" has put him off the scent slightly.
When he was a baby a friend (a childless friend) bought us a T shirt for him that said "I've Done Fuck All Today" which was hilarious on the evening she gave it to us after a few glasses of booze but the next day putting him in it it just looked WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! A company called Twisted Twee do the Tshirts and other suitably wierd and inappropriate ones for anyone who's brave enough to put their kids in them (or twisted enough).

My dd 2 overheard me saying bugger and started repeating. Luckily I had my back to her so could hide my hysterical laughter! (It was said completely in context as well, so very funny) I just didn't react to her face, ignored it and didn't mention it. Also, FGS which I ignored. Not quite so bad but would offend my mum who is a church goer!

peasoup - our local paper ran a whole article about a charity shop manager who was 'disgusted' that someone had donated a brown babygro that displayed the legend 'Full of shit'

Beats me why anyone would buy such a horrid item, but I was equally surprised that the shop manager bothered to complain to the local press about it, and pretty stunned that the paper printed an article and colour photo.

I'm sorry, and I know I have got all this to come but ROFL at this thread!

This reminds me of the day I had muttered under my breath about someone's rubbish driving - forgetting that ds2 aged 3 was in the back of the car.

A little voice piped up...

'Mummy, what is WANKERS?'

My SIL years ago when her DDs were young was driving and the postman cut her up in his van in traffic and she did what comes naturally (swore). The next day her DD (4) looked out the front window and said "look Mummy it's the fucking postman"...in front of Grandma

Bless 'em!

They always manage to embarrass you, don't they?

Mine have over the years said

'You're not drunk again, are you mummy?' when I picked them up from school (I'm a very moderate drinker but I have been known to have a few other mums round in the afternoon and stagger up to school a bit the worse for wear)

And the classic...

'Do you remember that time we were on your bed and you lay on top of me and squashed my willy right flat?'

This was true - ds2 and I had been wrestling in the bed after he got out of the bath and I was growling like a lion and pretending to bite his nose off. He laughed so much he begged me to stop and when I stopped pinning him down on the bed his willy really was squashed flat against him - poor child!

ROFL about squashed willy!!! They're going to get us all arrested at this rate!!

You should've seen me

'Oh ha ha - the things they say!!1 Now come on Matthew, tell teacher what a lovely game we were having!!!! '

my friends dd was only 4 when she ran to the front door as doorbell rang,peeped through the glass door shouting "mum it's the fucking midwife!"

Bless

lol lol lol at flat willy!

ds 1 (age2) was once in the back seat of the car and he said something was 'stupid'
PFB and puritanical mum i am all shocked and say 'Now that is a naughty word and mummy does not like it - you must not say it'
ds1 pipes up ' What? is it like fuckinell' just like that - one word with no 'g' 14 years on still haunts me!

It's just not appropriate ,is it, for a two year old to be muttering "Fuck's sake" to himself when trying to get IgglePiggle's blanket to velcro back onto his little velcro hand pad?! What is the world coming to?

Peasoup - its not good but 'hey'

i think i abrubtly told ds off and it stopped....not sure what's best tbh!

I've made up a whole new language of "swear" words...He's allowed to say, Bumbadoodle and buffalo, but antimacassar (which I think I got off MN) and my favourite "corrugated iron" are strictly forbidden! I few days ago I mentioned corrugated iron in correct context and had to feign embarrassment at saying a naughty word.

I also thought of something I posted ages ago...

Just thought of something else that was funny...
When ds2 was about 6 or 7 one of his friends was round and said something about the 'F word'

ds2: 'What's the F word?'
Friend: 'It's a very bad word you mustn't say'
ds2: 'But what is it then?'
Friend: 'It's a swear word beginning with F but you mustn't say it'
ds2: 'Oh I know - I've seen it sprayed on the bridge...
F - U - curly kuh - kicking kuh'

Bless 'im!