Does you child know 'the eff word'?

[Spidermama]

If so, at what age did he/she learn it?
How?
Does he/she actually know the meaning?

Oh, but telling your kid to F*ck off is just ... it's just not nice.

I don't have a problem with DS1 knowing words, except that he's guaranteed to use them to annoy. He learned "bloody" from the JCB song, and enjoys it far too much.

No..never eff off but have told them to "bog off upstairs" now and then. sorry if it offends you. i love my kids dearly by the way, but i ain't gonna be pretentious!!!

No..never eff off but have told them to "bog off upstairs" now and then. sorry if it offends you. i love my kids dearly by the way, but i ain't gonna be pretentious!!!

My DS's 7yo, just say,"x at school said the eff word." or the S word, etc but I'm not sure they know what those words are.
However, DH and myself were horrified the other day when they said,"x at school said the C word."
On questioning further the actual word was"crap", not what we had originally thought.

I've said, 'Ok then. Off you piss' but felt heavily guilty.

I'm glad it's not just me. I thought that was shocking. Her kids never seem to swear though.

NQC my ds loves the JCB song. He sniggers at 'bloody' and also 'bum'.

My 3 year old is quite familiar with the 'f' word, having heard me utter it now and then. She fully accepts that it is a rude word and only mummy's right and privilege to use it. Sometimes she will take me to task for saying it.

Answering your supplementary question, she doesn't understand that it means to fornicate in a get down and dirty sort of way.

Doesn't she ask what it means HMC? My dd has started to ask and I need to think of an answer. Any suggestions welcome.

my kids were born knowing it. however they never say it - why is this - the same reason i have sex and they dont becuase they are simply too young and not under my roof and becuase i say so.

they were in the womb when they heard the eff word

I try and swear in French, as mildly as possible, on the deluded basis that when DD copies it (she does, and she's only 2) no one will understand.....

DD (6) tells me when someone uses it, but has no idea what it means. She looks at me knowingly with eyebrows raised whenever the James Blunt song comes on, and will proffer the swear jar to Daddy if he ever lets it slip. As far as I can tell, all the kids have heard it, but that doesn't mean they use it. Have encouraged DD in her theory that only boys use words like this!

dd announced impressively that she knew 'the f word' because her friend told her. The she admitted that she'd since forgotten it, and thought we should remind her in case she said it accidentally.

A couple of weeks later she said she'd remembered because someone said 'the whole f word' in class (Y2)

Apparently it's 'fuckenella'

Yes DD(7) and DS2(4.5) know the word becuse unfortunately they hear it from me quite a bit. They would never use it and nor woudl DH. I am the one told off for using it in our house. I think me using it has made it "uncool". They pride themselves in never using it and tell on me to their dad when I do.

LOL at the full f-word - I'm awaiting its appearance on the chav names thread.

When DS1 was in Year 2, a girl in his class taught another little girl a rude word in Punjabi, having told her it was something innocuous. Another child who understood what was happening told the teacher. I was most upset that DS1 couldn't remember either the rude word or its meaning - such a shame to miss a multicultural learning opportunity...

reclon most shcool kdsi knwo loads but decide whether or not to use them at home

DS knows it now - he's 8, and heard it in the playground. He knows it's a bad word, and that if he ever said it he would be hung upside down by his toenails. DH never swear in front of the kids, we both think it's to let chldren hear adults swearing.

Joking about the toenails btw

On the bus home from school the other week, some of the older kids were swearing their heads off. my friend and i just ignored it but noticed our kids were taking it all in. suddenly, one of the more "mature" girls said,"stop swearing there's kids on the bus", to which my friend's six year old daughter piped up, "it's ok we've heard it all before!"!!!!

lmao

just as you were becomming very rightious about it no doubt - that happens a lot to me. i actually think " am going to tell them to stop fcking swearing , the little fCking shts" then realise!

DS(6) wrote it down the other day. He wrote "F** 2005. A little violence never hurt no-one." We were shocked. He had no idea what it meant. He said he'd seen it written on a postcard in Vienna. Given that DS is hearing impaired he's unlikely to have heard it from us (and I don't swear anyway) but this is one of those "milestones" for deaf kids, you know they'll do OK when they start picking up vocabulary from their environment.