Where are my fucking hell shoes, and other delightful phrases from my 3 year old, HEEELP!!

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What have I done? I have been known to swear out loud, in front of him, on occasion but FGS my 3 year old has a mouth like a sewer all of a sudden. I've done all the advising, telling people to ignore, don't rise to it etc. etc. But what if he blurts this out in Tesco, or god forbid at nursery?!

I have to get to bed so I'll leave you lovely ladies to ponder this one and will bump tomorrow if necessary. But someone please reply and tell me he'll forget these words if I ignore him. Please!

"wonder if you will all find it so funny when your cute toddler are 16-y-old heavers and are telling you to f* off?"

Err, I don't want to burst your bubble, GaGa, but they may learn the words from someone else and will probably tell you to fuck off whether you have sworn in front of them or not.

"It's never to early to teach children that swear words are naughty words that we shouldn't really say!"

That's just fucking hilarious, 2old

Gaga, both dh and I swear a fair bit (outwith childcare hours, of course) but I never have and never would swear AT a person, let alone at a parent!

I have lots of friends who NEVER swear, but they manage not to be sanctimonious about it, unlike you.

Rather a 'sewer mouth' than smuggery.

My 17 year old ds swears all the time...Ive yet to met a teenager that doesn't..and incidentally my mum never swore in front of me but that never stopped me swearing ..They are just words ,no biggie IMO

Toddlers love swear words as they are full of feeling. It's like verbal seasoning I suppose.
My daughter is 5 and still thinks poo-poo head and wee-wee head are the worst insults in the world.
In a way I can be thankful that she has speech problems.

I NEVER swore in front of my parents, let alone at them. I would have been in huge trouble.

I never heard my Mum swear but did once hear my Dad called someone a c**t when he didn't know I was in the room. I was about 17 at the time and .

My Grandad never swore and, from a very young age told me that 'swearing is for people who aren't clever enough to think of a better word'

It worked for me. I'm planning to trot out that to DSs a lot

I, in fact, swear like a fishwife as an adult but manage to keep it to appropriate times (usually).

My daughter has verbal dyspraxia and she knows a little girl at stagecoach called Francessca. I heard her calling this girl "Fan" once, I said to my daughter, "Do you call her Fran?" and she said "Yes, sometimes Fan and sometimes Fanny". She dosn't know what fanny means as we don't use that word.
I'm not sure what her Mum would make of it though. I'd have to explain, she can't say "r".

By woodyandbuzz Wed 03-Feb-10 10:45:26
Don't worry if he swears at nursery. They will have seen it all before - you will be quite unlucky if the staff have attitudes like Goblinchild though! (It's unlikely).

Just got in from work and Sainsbury's to enjoy this thread
No, I don't judge parents that swear, or their children.
Yes, my teenagers probably do swear, just not around me so I don't know.
You asked a stupid question OP, and I gave you a polite and sensible answer. I don't judge the intelligence level of parents either.
A couple of decades ago, before I had children, a parent came in to complain that their 9 year old was swearing at home, so we had a chat. One memorable thing was when she said
'Well, I do sometimes yell 'Get upstairs you bloody little shit, but you don't expect them to say it back to you Miss Goblin, do you?''
Kept my face straight as well.

'Err, I don't want to burst your bubble, GaGa, but they may learn the words from someone else and will probably tell you to fuck off whether you have sworn in front of them or not.'

I think it's different when they hear it elsewhere, by not doing it at home you are teaching by example that it's unacceptable to do it in the home in the presence of parents. And I fail to see how this view is smuggery, tbh.

stop swearing in front of your kid. Nothing worse than hearing young children swear.

for all the ones who say that swearing indicates a poor vocabulary- has anyone seen the SpongeBob episode where they discover swear words, and call them "sentence enhancers"?

...that's pretty much my pov generally

...tho possibly not repeatedly in the under 18s

I once met a woman with 2 young kids (about 4 and 6 yrs old), and the parents swore a lot in front of the kids, didn't find it offensive at all. I laugh at stories of swearing one-offs, but somehow hearing a 4-yr-old saying "I'm not going on those fucking swings again, they're shit, I fell last time and hurt my fucking arm" and seeing his mother nod sympathetically was just not funny.

Having said that, I am pretty bad in the car- Am expecting to hear "knobhead" echoed from the back seat any time now...

I don't think it necessrily indicates poor vocabulary. It's just skanky to hear a small child swear.

i dont like it
adn i dont get these threads

Oh I can't be doing with that "poor vocabulary" argument - such rubbish. Swearing creatively and being funny with it is something I see in friends with the best vocabularies and most creative minds. And the words wouldn't exist and persist if they didn't have their niche and play a vital role.

"Nothing worse than hearing young children swear."

I don't know, pointy- physical assault, bankruptcy, arson, murder, earthquakes, plane crashes and genocide might be a bit worse...

tethersend I am guilty of using that platitude, DP always takes the piss out of me. "There's nothing worse than finding a horrible used teabag in the sink" I tut, meaninglessly. And so on...

I like using the 'nothing worse' phrase in teh wrong context, tether. Makes me smile.

I can't see why you dismissed the advice of 'try not to swear yourself'. It's surely the best remedy for stopping your own dc swearing? It is a simple solution - but the question posted isn't that complex is it? Is it that hard to stop yourself from regularly saying fuck in front of a four year old?

no i say " there is nothing worse than living in a house where I am the only person who can toilet themself tidily"

and glare at my menfolk

but the swearing - really sort it aaaaaaaaaht
i wonder if its being a teacher - used to two different registers and so on

imagine if a TEACHER swore

in front of the OPS pfb

After our water was unexpectedly cut off DS1 (then about 3.9) told his pre-school teacher that we had no 'cutting' water. I was mortified.

DH and I now say 'blinking' and 'my word' a lot. We sound like we are in a bad 1950s sit com.

Just come back to this.
Don't think I'm on my 'high horse' with this - just being honest, I don't think it's that hard to do - and I have no problem swearing - but in appropriate circs.

Nicky: 'I do my very best to not swear in front of my wee boy, but I have very occassionally said 'shit!' when I have hurt myself or fallen over.'

So what's the problem then? How is that in any way comparable to saying 'fuck' etc regularly in front of your children? Surely a very occasional uttering of 'shit!' is much closer to not swearing in front of children to the point where they pick up your behaviour, than swearing regularly. So if I'm on my high horse, your very occasionally swearing self is up there with me. Welcome on board.

If a teacher swore in front of any of mine I would clasp her to my maternal bosom, tell her she is doing the Hardest Job In The World and let her sob it out

dc does not speak yet due to gdd ,buti always wonder what he will come out whith

praise be - a light-hearted teacher comment by jack on mn.