Swearing/Cussing

[greens_in_WA]

It's a wonder that any of us are able to have a conversation in standard English! It was so bad that my in-laws had a dog who would not respond to commands that were liberally peppered with swear words. You couldn't tell the dog "Sit" - he only got it when you said, "Sit the f... down". etc. It really wasn't funny to hear a 4 year old telling Granny's poor dog, "Move, a**hole! Get your a** outside"!

tears and all - thanks for that!!!

My foolproof method for curbing my potty mouth? Spend a half-hour with DH's family. The mere thought that I could sound like them is more than enough - it sounds so low-class and uneducated; definitely not something I want to model for my children!

Yep - that's what I need to remember too, but gosh I stilll get myself in such a tizzy, the potty mouth erupts... Self-control.... just isn't there sometimes...

 

[copwife92]

My foolproof method for curbing my potty mouth? Spend a half-hour with DH's family. The mere thought that I could sound like them is more than enough - it sounds so low-class and uneducated; definitely not something I want to model for my children!

I agree, using foul language make the user sound VERY uneducated.

 

[laceemouse]

I agree, using foul language make the user sound VERY uneducated.

Agree, I feel sorry for those of you who have parents who talk like that. I was not raised that way and we are not raising our kids that way.

I do have a suggestion, quit watching garbage on t.v. and movies! We have rented some movies that we literally turned off and returned without watching because every other word was foul.

People who talk like that at work are awful too, it just sounds like you don't have a decent vocabulary. I understand it is just a habit, but I don't think it is funny at all when you influence your kids to fall into the habit too

 

[timzagain]

I do have a suggestion, quit watching garbage on t.v. and movies! We have rented some movies that we literally turned off and returned without watching because every other word was foul.

We've had that experience WAY too often. I got so fed up trying to dodge the swear words that I simply stopped renting movies! If I do go to the cinema, I'm usually accompanying my youngest DD11, so the movies are pretty safe.

As for junk on TV, has anyone seen the program on Oxygen called "Dance Your A** Off?" The title alone has been a huge deterrent, so I haven't watched it. Every time I see or hear a promo for that show, I find myself asking, "Was that name really necessary?" I'd even settle for "Dance Your Butt Off" but I think that D.Y.A. Off is a bit over the top!

 

[timzagain]

Agree, I feel sorry for those of you who have parents who talk like that. I was not raised that way and we are not raising our kids that way.

I do have a suggestion, quit watching garbage on t.v. and movies! We have rented some movies that we literally turned off and returned without watching because every other word was foul.

People who talk like that at work are awful too, it just sounds like you don't have a decent vocabulary. I understand it is just a habit, but I don't think it is funny at all when you influence your kids to fall into the habit too

Even though my parents swore in front of us, we were absolutely not allowed to get away with it! I can still remember the spanking I got from my dad for swearing at the dog! I was 5 at the time and I used a particularly nasty phrase I'd picked up from one of the kids in the neighbourhood - it was pretty bad, so bad that even my sailor-mouth dad was shocked. Boy did I get into trouble for that one!

At least I didn't do what my DH did as a little boy. There he was, sitting in the front pew of the church where his grandfather was the pastor, cussing up a storm because a parishioner annoyed him in church! Can you imagine the shame???

 

[Liltx]

I am so opposite of this. But have a funny story.

DD6 came home from kindergarten one day and said "Mommy the kids at school said a bad word". She was very serious about it. I asked her to tell me what it was but at first she would not. I told her it was OK to say it just this once. At which she replied "They said it was boring". I tired not to laugh. At our house boring is a four letter word. My dh used to let one slip every once in a while but he just stopped as our children came.

I have a couple of four year old in my class that have said bad words. I always wonder how a parent could say something so foul in front of their children at so young an age. Luckily the other children have never heard it so they don't pick up on the words.

Monica

 

[ToddyLu]

I always heard that you could put a rubberband around your wrist and snap it every time you said a bad word. Problem is you break the skinny rubber bands after two words. I couldn't pull thicker bands back far enough to get a good snap....so sometimes I still blankety blank up.

Seriously, I have really tried to watch my language and I have improved a bit...sometimes you just have to get away from the group that is doing the same behavior.