swearing 2 year old <shame>

[tummytickler]

Help me!
My 2, nearly 3 year old has discovered the joys of swearing!
He only says 'fuck' and 'fucking' . I must have let it slip out at some point, and I am horrified. The older dc's find it hilarious (as you would if you were 7 and 9), and despite stern words form dh and I they laugh at him when he does it, so I send them out if i can.

How do i stop him saying these things? I am not generally a swearer, and I have been keeping myeslf in check to make sure nothing slips out (as has dh!)

We have been ignoring it and not making a big thing about it in the hope he will stop saying it, bit he says it more and more!

We were going to go on a visit to my grandparents soon, but can't take ds unless we can sort this out - bit they really want to see him as they havent seen him since he was a baby (mygrandmother is a bit of a smoker so we havent been to her house to visit with dc's much). They will be gutted if he does not come to visit - so we need to crack it quick!

Any ideas?

He does say other things, I meant 'fuck' and 'fucking' were his only swear words, not only words full stop!

when my 2/3 yo did this, we ignored him for the times he said it, which was about 100 times in one afternoon at first .

After a week or so of him not getting a reaction,but saying it a lot, We quietly sat him down and explained that the words in question were bad words and were not to be used at nursery or in front of GP's.

It pretty much worked.And actually, on the odd occasion that he did say anything, both sets of GP's were very good at pretending they hadn't heard anything. (and not that judgemental, simply saying he was a child)

However, the two older kids may be the complicating factor!

And luckily for us, his great grandma is kind of deaf, which helped.

Ps, now aged 3.7 he never says it.

Just had this with my 3 year old who wasn't talking much at the time which made it worse! We ignored it and then sat him down and told him it was inappropriate and that Mummy had been very naughty to say it (I dropped a hot plate of food and said 'f**k' as one does! Son was supposed to be in bed asleep). By being saintly with our language ever since (I know say 'Oh my word' quite a bit) he seems to have forgotton the incident. I'd like to apologise to the man in Ikea who he shouted it at in the lift though...that was an uncomfortable silence.

My 2 year old says the same thing. But we quickly nipped it in the butt. When he would say "fuck" we would say "no that's not a good word, it's FOX" and now he walks around saying Fox all the time and no one thinks anything of it. With 'shit' we did the same thing but used to word "ship" so now he says Fox and Ship instead of "Fuck" and "Shit". Give it a try, no harm done if it works for you too!

DD (3.7) said repeatedly yesterday 'you get off your bloody arse and do it' to DH and he laughed We have had a conversation about it though and she knows she should not say this because only really silly babies say things like that, not clever big girls.

Seriously though I really need to stop swearing - it's awful, I'm in the and someone cuts me up and I say 'wanker' as easily as breathing and I just know the DC are in the back soaking it all up.

Luckily DD's diction is appalling so I doubt most people are aware of some of the things she comes out with. She is hopeless with F's, S's and B's. So as long as I stay away from C words, we have a few months yet.

But I do need to stop swearing, we both do

word replacement. For instance if they say f, then think of a word, like 'fork' that is reasonably close, and that they can say. So, next time they say 'f', ask them, 'gosh, you want a fork?'

DD though tends to tell me off for swearing

I swear far too much, and DD did once pick up on it. We managed to change it to "panama canal," so you can guess what it started out as!

I really try to stop, but it's fairly ingrained.

My DD (nearly 3) has exclaimed "OHHHH FOR FUCKS SAKE" a number of times.

The first time she said it DH asked her "what did you say?" and DD said "For fucks sake, it's what Mummy says in the car"

We told her she'd got it wrong and Mummy actually says "OH DUCKS FACE" in the car....

Cue DD going round for weeks saying "DUCKS FACE, DUCKS FACE"

I have no clue what a panama canal could have been.