2 year old imitating a swear word she heard - help

[theressomethingaboutmarie]

My husband gets a little vocal when driving and apparently said "stupid fucker" about another driver. My darling girl held my face whilst we were out shopping on Saturday and said, "Mummy, you stupid fucker". I was absolutely horrified to say the least. I am VERY careful about my language in front of her and in general, my husband is too.

I told her that we do not say such words and that if we are cross with someone, we say, "silly boy" or "silly girl". How do I stop her saying it? I didn't shout or overreact when she said it initially for fear of her realising that those words had power.

Help! I don't want to have a foul mouthed daughter (husband suitably ashamed btw).

my DD learned the phrase "stupid fuck" at 2. I think they repeat it for a reaction. Just ignore her! Or wash her mouth out with soap and water. (that WAS a joke) btw!

Ignore and/or get her a toy fox or fox hand puppet, and convince her she's saying foxie or somesuch. Worked like a charm for "fuck's sake" with dd.

Ignore, ignore, ignore is the only way. My ex DH used to say "oh for fucks sake" at other drivers until DS aged 2 repeated it very clearly in the middle of a National Trust garden surrounded by genteel old ladies

Sadly they can and do pick things up - your poor DH. He'll not say THAT old loud with her in the car again......

ignore her. DD is now 6 and delights in telling car drivers that "you're not driving a bus..."

Try to ignore without pissing yourself laughing. My DD (2.3) said "little shit" the other day (dh has been known to call the cat this!) and my favourite, although not intention on her part went something along the lines of:

Bah bah black sleep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir three bags full
One little boy down the lane
Thank you little bastard
Little boy down the lane

God, I'm in the same boat with 23-month-old DS1... He has learned to say 'shit' and 'fuck' sometimes all in one go... He would be sitting there playing with toys and when frustrated, he has been known to say 'oh shit, shit, fuck, fuck, fuck...' I'm surprised he hasn't been sent back from nursery with a note yet... We have tried ignoring (and obviously we are now so NOT swearing in front of him!) but now we tell him not to say it when he does. He does understand it when we say not to repeat that word. Oh try substituting with an alternative. It's worked a couple of times when we say 'don't say oh shit, say oh dear'. Good luck! It's hard not to laugh though...

This made me laugh. My youngest, (2 1/2) walked in the shower room looked at the shower screen that had shower gel all over it and promptly said "Dirty bastards". She sounded like Catherine Tate's Nana!!!

About the same time that DS learned to say "oh for fucks sake" loud and clear I visited a little girl for a 2 year check (am a HV). She built bricks and said loudly "oh fuck" when they fell , I was trying to ignore without guffawing. Needless to say her poor Mum was horrified she'd said it - and in front of the HV too LOL.
I ended up telling her about DS and we had a good laugh at how clearly they say swear words when other speech can be so unclear. DS grew out of it although at age 7 the swear words make an occasional appearance when he's frustrated.

Yes we do the same as Habbibu and tell DD she's actually misheard.

She went round randomly shouting "ducks face" for a while, but at least it wasn't "fucks sake"

my DD called her nan a C*@t i blame that one squarely on DH as i NEVER say that word she was about 2.5yo at the point and DHs nan wasnt particularly happy about that one
we have said to DD to use a generic word (in our case 'cottonsocks') instead of a 'naughty' word and this has worked quite well the odd few times she has said a swear word she has caught herself in time and said the generic word instead.

you just have to try not to laugh and be persistent in however you want to approach it and the swear words will eventually filter out of her usual vocabulary

try to incorporate words that she may not know in place of swear words

We used oh coriander, cucumber and drat it. Suprisingly, they picked these words up and used them, forgetting the fuckit and oh shit

We still use them now as a family

I'd get used to it if I were you. It'll only get worse (or is that just me ).

Ignore is the best advice. Also I'd be just as worried about the stupid bit. DS gets to sit on the naughty step for calling anyone stupid.