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So annoyed about it - saw a mum teaching baby to swear!!!

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Hulababy · 19/03/2004 17:14

Title says it all really. I went on the tram shopping today and had 23mo Dd with me. We sat at one of the few places you can have the pushchair, opposite a young couple with a child - maybe about 18-20mo little girl (younger than DD but with a reasonable attemot at talking) - and a woman opposite who was with them.

For the whole 20 minute journey they kept asking the little girl to say all manner of swear words - okay not the most extreme ones but things like bgger, Dckhead, p*ss, you get the idea... And they were finding it all so hugely amusing.

I was so cross about it that I got up and moved seats - even though it meant putting pushchair down and sitting DD on me knee. When moving to another seat I did say to DD "let's go and sit over there sweetie. We don't want you learning words like that, it isn't nice" They just laughed at that and commented on my DD being a "posh girl"! I didn't have the courage to say anything direct at all. I didn't dare say anything to them (got the impression that wouldn't have gone down well), and I did feel bad for not saying something.

I just feel so sorry for that poor innocent little girl. How is she going to be brought up?

I am sure I am not on my own with this thinking. Just needed to rant somewhere where I am not at risk of being hit!

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lydialemon · 19/03/2004 17:16

I'm speechless!

secur · 19/03/2004 17:19

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Bagpuss30 · 19/03/2004 17:20

That is really awful. It is bad enough to hear older children say things like that let alone little ones. You did the right thing moving seats.

hmb · 19/03/2004 17:20

My God! And I bet that in a few years tey will be screaming abuse at her in the school playground for swearing!

Is it any wonder that so many children are foul mouthed when they have morons for parents? Good for you for having the guts to move. It is not a case of being' posh' it is just a case of having standards!

mez75 · 19/03/2004 17:21

Some people haven't got a clue have they. I get the feeling that she wont be brought up but rather dragged up.

coppertop · 19/03/2004 17:23

I've heard people do this before but it's usually older brothers and sisters doing the teaching. A boy of about 11 and a girl of about 15 thought it highly amusing to get their 3 yr old cousin to repeat lines from Eminem songs. They found it hilarious but I was disgusted. Like you I picked up ds and went elsewhere.

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Hulababy · 19/03/2004 17:24

Don't care what they label DD as TBH. I'd raher she was brought up to be a child with standards and a knowledge of right and wrong, and also what is and isn't appropraite.

Arrggghhh!!! It made me so mad; still fuming if I think about it. Glad I wasn't with DD's grandparents, especially my FIL. He is an retired police sargeant. Sure he'd have tried to arrest them for it! Seriously.

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suzywong · 19/03/2004 17:25

Watchout for them on Trisha

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Hulababy · 19/03/2004 17:25

Oh, and this was definitely the parents. One of the woman referred too herself and the bloke as "mum and dad" to the toddler.

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Beety · 19/03/2004 17:46

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nutcracker · 19/03/2004 17:51

God thats awful. Can't think of anything else to say, i'm speechless.

CP · 19/03/2004 18:24

That is outrageous! I cannot believe parents would do such a thing, how appalling!
I recently told a couple of teens off for swearing in front of my dd, I said that I did not want her to hear such language and they apologised and went elsewhere to play. Hopefully I gave them something to think about but I doubt it though as swearing is so prevalent in our society - not nice.

twiglett · 19/03/2004 18:28

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carla · 19/03/2004 18:30

Hulababy, rant away. You did the right thing. What awful people.

CP · 19/03/2004 18:31

ok, I have only just managed to pick my jaw up off my keyboard! That is unbelievable, that poor girl.

katierocket · 19/03/2004 18:31

Grim.

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Hulababy · 19/03/2004 18:32

Twiglett; shocking.

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hmb · 19/03/2004 18:34

I used to have a summer job helping out in a holiday playscheme. The scheme had been set up by parents but they had some money for full time workes. Lots of parents used to help out, they were vital to the scheme and thy had fun as well as the kids.

I remember on mother screaming across the playground to her son '*** , come here, you little Bastard!' and that was quite the norm for her

lotty34 · 19/03/2004 18:34

How dreadful but some people really do think the sound of little children swearing is funny !!!! what a shame for that child to be brought up with parents like that. Dreadful.

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Hulababy · 19/03/2004 19:52

Just been telling DH and he was a shocked and appalled as I was

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WSM · 19/03/2004 20:07

That is horrible hulababy, I think I'd have handled it in much the same way. Don't think raising your toddler to have a foul mouth is big or clever, some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

SofiaAmes · 19/03/2004 20:10

dh's ex regularly calls her children little s*t's and swears at them and when they are really naughty she calls dh up and says (in front of the children) "I don't fking want the little s*ts, you have them!" And thenother day we get a call from her complaing the one them had been told off at school for swearing at a teacher. Geee i wonder where she learned it from.

hmb · 19/03/2004 20:11

Some people shouldn't be allowed to keep pets let alons raise kids!

emmatmg · 19/03/2004 20:14

Speechless.......were they completely unaware that everyone around them would be thinking the same as you Hula. Some people just have no idea.

On a bit of a lighter note, on one of the first occasions my brother and sister were allowed to take me out alone (they are 8+10 years older than me) the first word I apparently uttered when returning home was 'bllcks'. My mum was not happy.

kiwisbird · 19/03/2004 20:14

my mum used to let my son have 5 min swearing session every week when she had him - he was a very intelligent age 5 when this went on...
He never has uttered a word outside of this time bless him and found it hugely amusing
I had to put a stop to it though, it just sounded so wrong coming out of such an angelic mouth

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