So.....my toddler said the F word!

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I'm still in shock actually, yesterday at lunch our dd (almost 3) said " this is a f*ing sandwich Mummy" I replied "no sweetheart it's an egg sandwich"
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Ignore ignore ignore.

Ignore it.
My DD was in the lobby of a bank with me when she was about four

" oh fuck. Its raining" she said loudly
and
She is 7 now and never said it since ( although she does say 'bollocks!' with a certain style.)

It is just a word and it will only gain importance if you make a big deal.

Chances are you won't hear it again. If you go it will become toddlers fav party trick.

Ignore! My Now 11 year old DD went through a stage of saying "oh shit" when she was a toddler. We didn't react and she stopped soon enough.

I still laugh though when I think back to walk through the park with her when she was about 2 and she said "Oh mummy my legs are knackered"!

Same here, was putting my (then baby) DS to bed when my DD was about 2. Just as we crept out of his room he started crying and she said "Oh F*ck It"...

Although I couldn't have put it better myself we did just ignore her and it lasted a couple of days and then she stopped.

We blame those inconsiderate folk swearing loudly on their mobiles for where she picked it up...

Ignoring didn't work for us. After a particularly embarrassing outburst in front of granny I decided to come down hard on it (DD was 2.10 then). So I talked about it being a word we didn't like. Then she had warnings followed by a period in timeout. Tactic seems to have worked as we haven't had it since (2 months) except for one occasion when she told me very solemnly "We don't say fuck do we Mummy?"

The blame lies with DP though, who is very bad at minding his language when het up.

Ignore it, yes, but also find out where she's hearing it from.
She hasn't made it up, after all, has she?

We try to ignore dd1 saying 'piss'. We know where she got it from (DH told me the dog had pissed up the back door while she was sat on the potty, she then jumped up and said 'Pish. Pish in my potty')

If she says it now, we just say 'No. That's wee wee'. She has slowly stopped saying it.

tell him not be such a twat

I'm dreading this happening, DH always swears when he gets annoyed when driving or in the kitchen.

I asked her where she heard that word, and she couldn't answer. Dh thinks it must have been in the shopping centre at the weekend, there were a couple of guys cursing and swearing.
She said it one more time later that day too. I did say it is a naughty word and she must never say it. I threatend santa would take her dolls house back if she did

DD was in the car when I called a man who stepped into the road a twit

" what did you say mummy" she said
" I called that silly man a twit"
....
...

DD : "Mummy. Don't you mean twat?"

Sometimes ignore doesn't work and you need to have the "we don't use words like that" speech together with consequences, depends on kid and whether Grannie is visiting . But ignore works most of the time.

It is hard not to laugh though. We were driving and stopped behind 2 cars to let a fire engine onto the road. The car behind over took us and the 2 in front at speed and nearly crashed into the fire engine. My DP goes "FUCKING JESUS". Small voice of 3yr old from the rear goes "that's not a fucking jesus, Daddy, that's a fire engine".

my dd did it in ikea last month. there i was deciding which size of storage boxes i would need and she started shouting fuck it repeatedly. not quielty i moght add, it was at the top of her voice. i ignored her while turning the colour of beetroot. she hasnt done it again

My 3 year old, wanting to impress some colle looking 12 year olds in the park, went over to them and shouted FUCKING HECK. They were quite shocked. I ignored it. He obviously thought it was a bit grown up tho. AM just waiting for the inevitable comments from nursery

My 2 yo says fuck all the time. He means truck. Sample:

"Look Mummy - red fuck! Big red fuck!"

I am correcting him and hoping that his speech will soon improve...

At this age, yes ignore it. My DS is just 4 and I think if he says a swear word, I will have to have a talk with him about bad words.

When they are younger (like my DD, she's nearly 2), you can convince them that you said something else. ie fuckit = bucket.

But aged 3, you have to just ignore IME.