So my 2 and a half year old started nursery a few months ago and has started picking up behaviours that I really don’t like, like shouting at us ‘go away!!’ ‘Naughty mummy!’ ‘stupid daddy’ (I don’t think he knows what it means) and saying some rude words like ‘f*ing sake’. He’s very verbal so he told us who the children are who say these things, but it doesn’t matter really. Unfortunately he seems to have figured out that saying those things gets you something (attention) and now he’s testing it.
We don’t use any of these at home and he never used to be rude in any way before. I guess it comes with being around older/other children. I wish everyone had the same parenting standards but it’s not possible.
I have a few questions:
Do nurseries where children don’t say rude things exist? 😜
I feel like giving it any attention makes it worse, but what is your experience? Have you found something efficient that actually works? What consequences do you apply?
Do most children do this or is mine more prone to rude behaviour 🙈? I really hate this because being nice and polite is sooo important to me.