22 month old swearing “F-ing Hell” - how do we stop it?!

[aimeeeleanor]

Our 22 month old repeats absolutely everything we say

We are ordinarily very good at censoring ourselves when our DC is around. However…. His Dad did slip up & said ‘Fing Hell’ in the car when someone about forced us off the road whilst driving the other day (naughty daddy! But of course human). DC repeated straight away & has now taken to saying it whenever he gets in the car

It doesn’t help that it’s in the most perfect & eloquent english you’ve ever heard in your life, every syllable is so crisp 😅so it is funny, but of course we don’t show him that we laugh

We just completely ignore it & try to talk about something else

Any tips on how to get him to stop / forget it?! My Mum heard him say it for the first time & cried, made me feel very guilty… I mean very dramatic but I get that he shouldn’t be doing it

Any help appreciated :) thanks so much

Love the 'don't swear again brigade'

Parents are humans too!

My 7 year old loves giving the finger... I am trying to ignore it

I knew it would be that 😂😂

Defo replace with another similar sounding phrase and keep correcting it - 22mos don't make a lot of sense anyway so don't worry too much. He'll soon forget about it unless everyone makes a big fuss.

I know! It's her insistence 🐐😁

My 22 month old called some kids pushing in front of her for the slide ‘little shits’ a few times very loudly. I guess she was annoyed 😂 All the other parents hanging about were clearly shocked (and mostly amused) because obviously, and also my DD is little for her age. It set off a chain reaction of other kids saying it too. I was mortified but I also thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. She definitely got it from me, yelling at cats shitting in my flowerbed. 😬 She hasn’t said it since. The funny thing was how it fit the context. She really meant it!