Swearing in year 3 reading book

[babyin2020]

My 7 year old in year 3 came home today with a new book for reading at home he opened the book and handed it to me. The first line of the book opens with swearing. Do you think this is appropriate?

I may not sleep tonight not knowing this

@Couchbettato

I'm fuming that I've just read 5 pages and still no response.

Me too!

'Not the magic fucking key again, you little bastards' cried Mum

I think the OP has been offended by the horrific and prolific swearing on this thread. You should all be disgusted with yourselves. You pricksticks.

The Wank in the Willows?

NB blasphemy is a subset of swearing.

It's fairly widely accepted now, but it's swearing just as much as bloody and pissing are.

I think bloody was originally blasphemy (by Our Lady) but pissing is just coarse language rather than swearing/cursing.

Actually, I'm just hanging about to find out what the word was

Yeah, I've heard that By Our Lady theory, and it makes no sense.

By Our Lady is an exclamation - Good God! By Jove! Sacre mille petit cochons!

Bloody is an adjective.

An exasperated mediaeval conversationalist would simply not have said "By Our Lady Hell! I stubbed my toe on the by-our-lady cobbles!"

@isitxmasalready

Guessing it's Kestrel for a Knave?? It's a brilliant book and the swearing isn't too bad at all.

For a 7year old? That would be so upsetting. I can barely think about it now, 40 years on.

The very first book DD ever brought home from school included hermaphrodite sex.

The Life Cycle of the Snail

Ooh dd1 had a sweary book in year 3, had 'bloody' on loads of pages, including the first. Donald Western or similar was the author. Wonder if it's the same one.

@merryhouse

Yeah, I've heard that By Our Lady theory, and it makes no sense.

By Our Lady is an exclamation - Good God! By Jove! Sacre mille petit cochons!

Bloody is an adjective.

An exasperated mediaeval conversationalist would simply not have said "By Our Lady Hell! I stubbed my toe on the by-our-lady cobbles!"

Makes as much sense as 'sexual intercourse hell! I've stubbed my sexual intercourse toe ... Etc.'

No reveal?

I encourage my children to swear. Sometimes it’s appropriate, you just need to know the time and the place for it. Swear and slam doors when you are angry. Very important!!

I've remembered dd1's year 3 sweary book, Robert Westall's Kingdom by the Sea. Just looked him up - apparently has a reputation for swear words in his children's books. Avoid if sensitive!

Was it 'gosh darn it'?

Dickon from The Secret Garden?

Oh yes - reading The Machine Gunners with year 8 I learned to wrangle it so I, not a student, was reading aloud the part where he shouts “get the bastards! Kill the bastards!” at the RAF planes tailing a Messerschmitt.

Is this book by any chance?


Was it this one OP?

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780857862655?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyI3at-Hp7AIVn4BQBh3ILQohEAQYBCABEgJzbPD_BwE

@GravityFalls

Oh yes - reading The Machine Gunners with year 8 I learned to wrangle it so I, not a student, was reading aloud the part where he shouts “get the bastards! Kill the bastards!” at the RAF planes tailing a Messerschmitt.

RAF fighter pilot delivering lecture on "what it was like in the Battle of Britain" to a girls' 6th form:

Pilot: "So I was on the tail of the Fokkers..."

Teacher (interrupting): "What you need to realise, girls, is that a Fokker is a type of German plane."

Pilot: "Yes, but those fokkers were Messerschmitts."

Well.......

Ok, the US election is now second place in “things I need answered”.

COME ON OP!!!