Anyone giving up swearing?

[sanielle]

Anyone giving up swearing now? We both said we were.. but finding it more than a little difficult..

Don't want my baby's first words to be, "get me some fucking milk!"

I swear like a sailor best of times, and like a pirate at the worst.

Honestly sanielle, you can do it!

DP and I both swore like troupers. We didn't quite manage to give it up in time for DD's birth, but from around the 6 month mark we'd managed it. DP sometimes gets a bit ranty (when Radio 4 comes on) and I tell him to watch it, and I have to be reminded while driving. I had to find replacement words eg muppet, donut etc instead of fing bdy a**hole. (That's only for driving!)

The venom we can pack into "That's really SILLY" you would not believe :)

Not sure why but

The venom we can pack into "That's really SILLY" you would not believe

Made me really laugh out loud!

Personally I'd save yourself a whole lot of hassle and keep swearing intact until your baby passes the 6 month mark. I needed expletives to get me through sometimes.

Now DS is 3 and parrots everything I can no longer refer to people as fing cing t**ts, but to be honest that's a good thing. I am probably more popular.

I'm obviously as good as gold so never swear (well, only in my own company when I stub my toe or something) but DH swears when he gets cross/grumpy/angry (and he's a grumpy old man!) and I've been telling him I will not accept amything more than 'blast' as acceptable. My parents never swore (gordon bennet was the worst I heard) and I have a very clean mouth, whereas his parents swear and so does he, so I most definately want a swear free home (as I've always really hated swearing, but that's just me being old fashioned I guess and want to lead by example).

I use the term 'oh nutters' which works well and gets a odd look smile from people who hear me say it for the first time

Fuck no!!!

No fucking chance! I swear a lot, as does my DH and his word of choice is c*nt but it comes naturally not to do it in front of my DSS (6) and I think it'll be the same with the baby when she gets here.

Pushmepullyou - beat me to it!

unintentionally I have given up swearing casually. Our old office manager [now on mat leave] used to tell us off if we cuss, it was really embarrasing, not that we did it much, but sometimes the occasion calls for the word. One of the new girls had this habit of snorting when she wanted to cuss, oddly enough we've all adopted the habit. We do occasionally cuss still but it's so funny when DH asks me why I'm snorting about something or other at home, now he's started doing it too. Our new office manager thinks we are all odd.

Christ on a bike, don't give up swearing before labour.

What were you thinking?

I think I swear more now that I have children. I tell them they are not allowed to swear at other people's houses or at school as other adults think it is naughty, but for us it is not as long as it is not being used to be horrid to someone. so 'fuck off' - not allowed. 'o fuck i've split my tea all over my trousers ' - allowed. Though none of my DCs actually swear at all, ever. We do though. Like a couple of fish wives.

We are weaning ourselves off the swearing - for example replacing the f word with the Battlestar Galactica equivalent - "frack".

But I figure a few slip ups are fine when they are very new - they're not really listening, are they....?

Its best to get out of the habit early as you never know what they will learn from listening to you...DS picked up the f word from me swearing at other car drivers, I was mortified when he repeated it in front of inlaws (age about 3)!
luckily he forgot it again quite quickly...

"nob" is the word of choice in our house - to the extent that "you're such a nob!" is now an term of endearment between me and DH...we are determined to stop though, as I really don't want baby's first word to be nob...and the frequency we say it at means there is a good chance it could be at our current rate!

This thread has really made me laugh. I am no angel when it comes to language (ok, I have a filthy mouth) but my DH swears like a proper trooper. His favourite word is cvnt. In fact, my DH's name starts with a K, so you can now see what my username KFW stands for

Not sure how we are going to cope with our littlun when she pops out. I seem to be pretty good at restricting my language around our friends' kids, but bless DH he doesn't seem to have a clue what he's saying until it's out.

Oh well, I am not worrying about it now because I am pretty sure that there are going to be plenty of other things to worry about being a new parent.

DH and I did joke about calling our kiddie cnut (as in king cnut one of the early english kings) in a post ironic way like fcuk. Obviously we wouldn't actually...

DP's not so good at moderating himself ... he had an interview yesterday which went surprisingly well considering he let slip the phrase "corporate wankspeak" [d'oh]

We were careful around DS when he started to talk, but you still can't win - one of his first reliable and repeated words was "stab" - that's one of the risks of BLW they don't warn you about

I am trying (DS now 9 months old and thinks it's hilarious when I swear ) and really must try harder...

Since I had my DS I have developed the ability to swear like a trooper when he isn't around and say 'Bananaheads', 'Blimey', Goodness, Oh my gosh etc when he is. I did swear once in the car when someone pulled out in front of me and he said delightedly 'you said a bloody mummy!'

I'm amazed at your 9m thinking it's hilarious katster - are you sure it's not your reaction he's laughing at?