I was so sickened today - Page 2

[karen ann]

Originally Posted by eilonwy

Jeca, my only suggestion is that you not make a big deal about it. If no one is laughing/getting upset/etc, maybe it'll lose it's appeal.

Maybe that's what the mom the OP referred to was trying to do?

[Viola]

Originally Posted by Sherri S.

I get so angry at people who think it is funny to hear such language coming from a small child - now I'm no saint, and dh curses like a sailor, but we try not to say things like that in front of the kids, and we make sure to scold ourselves if we do. The girls know that is not something I want them to say.

My daughter has gotten angry and used f&*%ing a couple of times. It was so unexpected, I was laughing like a hyena. Now I had to leave the room to do it so she wouldn't hear me, but I couldn't help it. I guess kind of like when people find inappropriate things funny, like falls.

I pretty much ignore it too, and other than a few times of playing around with it, my daughter has not used any curse words.

[Retro]

My nephew curses like a sailor. Since he lived with us for a time my DD now says the B word. She knows exactly how to say it too. I am still trying to break her from it, it's the only word she uses. i posted a thread about it before but the only suggestions were things like" don't let her hear the word" well we don't curse so she's NOT getting it from us. It's been about 5 months since she's been around him but she remembers those words. She doesn't sya nything but that and I am at a lost I've tried everything.BTW, my impresionable 6 year old doesn't curse, just this one.
Didn't mean to hijack, any sugestions?

I had a cousin whos son started cussing to get attention while he was still in a diaper.
He picked up all sorts of words and for three days would run about cussing and generally being out of line. She had tried time outs, denial of a cake we had laying around for the holliday, ect. Nothing seemed to work. The third day my cousin lost it and gave him a spanking and he did stop with his disrespectful luanguage. If your a no spanking mom, I have no idea how you would handle a situation like that. If nothing seems to work, then whats going to work? The best course of action is to deny those words from ever reaching him/her. The TV is strictly controlled in the house (62 inch and 9 channels, lol, lots of age appropriate videos though) and it takes a meteor strike to make me lose control of my own luanguage. I wouldnt know what to do if it starts.

[lilyka]

We try not to make a big deal out of it. dirty words like dirty socks just need to be cleaned up. I try to stay matter of fact about it. I simply say "that is not a word we smiths say. ever. it is vulgur and low brow. please come up with somehitng better." if it continues I send them to the bathroom to say it. Toilet talk belongs in the toilet room. they can say it all they want in there (which also helped me explain why they always here the neighbors swearing through the bathroom wall - thier friends sent them to the bathroom with thier potty mouth) but it must stay in there. they also know what may be OK at home is absolutely not allowed outside the house.

the one time we really had to work on something we decided on a punishment (I think time out) and I could send her and she could send me. Ithelped herto know that that word was not appropriate for anyone to say. not her and not from the mouth of the mama she got it from. so off I marched several times a day to time out ( bliss) until both of us had broken the habit.

[Piglet68]

Originally Posted by lilyka

It helped herto know that that word was not appropriate for anyone to say. not her and not from the mouth of the mama she got it from. so off I marched several times a day to time out ( bliss) until both of us had broken the habit.

lol! I love it!