Time has changed

Well, I think it is because most parent now treat their kids far more different from the way they were treated by their own parents. Some parents nowadays would treat their children as if they were just buddies and the boundary between being a parent and a friend to a child has been very thin or to some almost none. Thus, the respect of the children goes down the hill.

The word gago or tanga are not considered cursing words. The word gago or tanga only becomes bad once you addressed it to the wrong person. However, if you are calling the person gago or tanga because he/she really is gago or tanga- then, what's wrong. How do we call someone who really is gago and tanga then? Are we going to address them...ambait mo, or ang galing mo (you're so nice or you're so bright/smart) when they're really are not? Isn't it bluffing or giving them more insult? The PI is indeed a bad words- that is lashing someone's mom. Granting the mother is a real harlot- no one has the right to use such a word to judge someone. I agree kids of today is far different from the kids half century ago. That's how this modernization influence and damaged the moral of every one, moreover the innocent kids.

Time has change indeed. We would not be wondering anymore that even a 5 years old can already utter such words because he can hear it from his parents and I think we can't blame it to anyone else because it is starting at home.

the kids are indifferent to it because they always hear the grown-ups do it. you could also see kids smoking and having a girl/boyfriend at a younger age. each year getting younger and younger. and nobody's doing something about it.

Here is what I can say. Children learn from what they see and hear. Most often than not, these children learned these words inside the house. Because as far as I know, I never heard my children utter these kind of words. Probably because, I never heard myself and my husband utter those words. Have a nice day!

television is really a big influence on kids. I can even say my 2-year-old is a victim of that... But no, not the bad words because I never allowed them watching matured shows (well, as far as I know when I am around, I don't know if the helpers are alone)... but the shouting and slapping. Even if I chose the safest cartoon channel, there is really still some bad things that they can get out of it. Just recently, my 2 year old shouted at me "I said No!" and I remembered I encountered that while watching one of the cartoon shows when one of the characters insisted of having the other take the medicine. Though in the end there is a lesson, but yet it sticked to their minds. I know 2 year olds are terrible and their world are full of NO's, that is why they are called terrible two! But being influenced with such negative values, makes them more terrible... and it makes parents like me more worried about how they're gonna be when they grow up.

Just like you, cursing is a taboo, when we were just kids. Our father and mother would really be so angry with us if he ever hear us say a bad word. I think some children nowadays are saying those bad words because they hear it on some movies on TV specially those with hoodlums and thought that it's okay to imitate them. Also, maybe they hear it from their quarreling parents.