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Which "bad words" does your five year old know?

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emkana · 28/05/2006 19:48

Reading on a German discussion board I am stunned again about how different things seem to be there, or is it just me?

They are discussing children's knowledge of swearwords and crude expressions for sexual intercourse etc., and the majority agrees that children of Kindergarten age (so between three and sex) will hear these words and possibly even know their meanings.

Now dd1 doesn't know any bad words apart from possibly "bloody". And in school they don't seem to be used around the playground either...
or if they are, she hasn't said any of them at home, which I think she would, as she comes home all outraged to report if a boy in her class has said "pants" or something.

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WigWamBam · 28/05/2006 19:53

My dd is just 5, and last week came out with "Well that's buggered it up, hasn't it!". It's her first "bad" word, and she got it from me, not school ... I don't swear around her but she overheard me.

She came home from school the other day and told me that someone had said "Oh my God", but that she and a friend had told the person who said it that it was a naughty thing to say, and she had promised never to say it again, and to tell her mother off for saying it!

Whizzz · 28/05/2006 19:53

Boobies and Poo

NotQuiteCockney · 28/05/2006 19:57

Oh, DS1 knows loads. He'll be 5 in September. His naughty words are: bum, wee, willy, poo, "oh my god" ... and that's it.

I feel like he's living in a bit of a bubble. When people use genuine swear words near him, he doesn't really parse them properly, so they don't register. At some point the bubble will burst, and he will learn the real things ...

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 28/05/2006 20:05

dds are 6 and 4 and they know every rude word going (except for one). They probably don;t know what they mean and they don;t use them. We've always refused to make a big thing about swearing - it doesn't have shock value. They understand that if the mood is right and it's just us that it can be a joke, but they have never not ever sworn infront of our friends or gps and pretty sure not at school - they don;t see it as "naughty" so there;s no attraction. They just see it as something they don;t do.

Earlybird · 28/05/2006 20:17

She knows that the words "idiot" and "stupid" are not ones we use. The other day I heard her say "dammit", and realised I'd been overheard/imitated. We immediately had a conversation about how that wasn't a nice word to use, and especially not one for children.

ritaskeeter · 28/05/2006 20:19

DD 5 went through a phase of "bloody" after an unthinking comment by me one morning (it's bloody cold ) but she only every used to say it in front of MIL and she would repeat it until she got a reaction out of her Gran!

I once called someone a twt whilst driving when she was much younger, whats a twt mommy? luckily she never came out with it again.

Now, I would not like to think about replying on behalf of DD1, 10, sometimes what you don't know relly is the best way1

cece · 28/05/2006 20:38

bum and poo

Airy · 28/05/2006 20:56

DD 5, has said a few after hearing them from me but I actually think she's forgotton them now.She said s**t when she dropped a toy when she was around three and she said bloody hell recently.
other than those few occasions her 'swear' words are fart, bum and boobies

SleepyJess · 28/05/2006 20:58

My five year old, who - due to his special needs - has very little in the way of ordinary language skills when compared to other five year olds - knows bugger, has done for several years.. and uses it as often as possible (I'm so proud )

WestCountryLass · 28/05/2006 22:34

DS over head me saying Jesus Christ but thought I said Cheeses Rice :o

He says "oh poop" when he is in a bad mood.

fattiemumma · 28/05/2006 22:51

sadly Ds mixes with my brothers who are older so he picks up some naughty words. thankfully he knows they are naughty and other than the odd time where he doesnt realise a word is rude (he said he had a "scractchy narse" the other day...he meant an itchy bum lol) and so i explained that was a rude word and he wasn't to say it again.

if the older boys say something he knows is rude you can hear him downstairs saying...ooh thats swear words. quite cute really

QE · 28/05/2006 22:52

lmfao emkana - at your typo in brackets in the first post!!!

kid · 28/05/2006 22:59

DS makes songs up that rhyme, quite clever for a 4 year old I think but not so clever when his words rhyme with banker! He doesn't even realise he is saying a naughty word but we tell him not to say it.

Miaou · 28/05/2006 23:00

hat - you have saved me the bother of typing the exact same thing! Dd2 in particular delights in saying "arse" (except when she says it it is "arrrrrrrrrse"), and bugger and bloody, but knows that the only appropriate place for that language is at home and in front of me and dh only. The fact that it has no shock value has taken away much of the excitement I think.

Oooh look, I said it anyway...verbal diarrhoea, me

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 29/05/2006 00:22

I think it's quite interesting how young they can learn real subtleties to etiquette. sometimes dh says to dd "you absolutely know that you have to say bugger off to Granny when she arrives" and she wriggles and giggles but would aboslutely never say it - it's weird - she can understand that it's funny for dh and her to joke about it, but somehow knows that to actually do it would not be funny. I think small children have a great deal of social/emotional intelligence

Miaou · 29/05/2006 00:24

Absolutely hat - dh suggested that she say one of these words to her teacher and her face was an absolute picture - like this

kitbit · 29/05/2006 08:16

Not my own story but I read it somewhere and it made me laugh (and I hope if the original mum reads here she'll forgive me for sharing it!) but her lo had obviously heard her using a certain phrase and brought it out in full splendour in front of relatives..."oh Christ on a Bike"!!!

Spagblog · 29/05/2006 09:03

I know DD (4.5) hears some very choice language when she is out in the garden. The neighbourhood kids all hang outside our house and swear like troopers.
However, she has never repeated anything stronger than "Oh my god"
Her favourite really "naughty" things to say are stupid head or poo poo head

zoeuk1 · 29/05/2006 10:07

why do all kids think that 'poo head' is funny?
my kids and everyone elses kids i know think its hilarious when they say it!
poo head
bum head etc etc.

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 29/05/2006 10:22

yes, having said mine don;t swear they revel in poo poo head

Nightynight · 29/05/2006 11:11

my children have heard just about every swear word, but they dont know what they mean (I am pretty sure).

ds1 once (aged about 4) repeated some words that I dont want to post on here, to my mother. Suffice to say, that he got the result he was no doubt looking for.

They are easily shocked by children at school who repeat phrases like "boy pants", so I am not unduly worried yet.

Pattilou · 29/05/2006 21:32

DS1 came home from school when he was in reception, and said "Mummy, I know the C-word". I was quietly freaking out, when he went on, "it's crap, isn't it?". Phew.... (but a friend's DD came home from school, also in reception, and told her mother to type c**t into google and see what happened. Yikes)

shinypeople · 05/06/2006 22:54

my 5 year old knows that bugger is swearing and that we don't use stupid, shut up or hate

PandaG · 05/06/2006 23:21

DS (6) has been know to use bloody on occasion, and in context too! I don't swear a lot, and try really hard not to around DS and DD, but he was obviously emulating me. I must admit I have also had to tell him I said 'Oh ships and trucks' when in a really bad mood and I didn't realise he was in earshot

ScummyMummy · 05/06/2006 23:41

Really? Amazed that none of your kids know any swear words. Mine know all of them except the c word and have done for years, I'm afraid. One of them demonstrated his knowledge during Letter f week at his nursery when he was about 3. I was mortified. I think he was gifted and talented within nursery but all his contemporaries have now caught up. None of them actually use this exciting and forbidden knowledge though- hat must be right that their social skills are more advanced than they look. Instead they all whisper together, round eyed, in fascinated horror, of children in older years who have, apparently, dared to say the fabled "f-word"...

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