My 9 year old swore, and said the "C" word!

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I live with my nephews & sister. And when the 9 year old swears, he get's his mouth washed out with soap, this has only happened one time & it was the 'f' word!!He's never swore again!!Lori

My daughter once told me to phuck off, and my toddler son said "Yeah!"

I am not the kind of parent that says 'Do as I say and not as I do'. Nor am I the kind of person who takes offense at swearing, I consider them excellent adjectives. I made sure my kids understood though, that while it didn't bother me, most of their teachers and friends parents were not going to feel the same way about it.

In our home I will admit I have a potty mouth...My kids since they could be old enough to understand were givin "swear words" that they were allowed to say such as damn, and other made up ones like oh snigglefritz. It is understood that when they are adults they can use the adult words too, but until then they are to use the kid swears. We also had the co-joining respect discussion that they could not use any of the swear words, not even the kids ones to hurt another person. Or there would be consiquences. But rather they could use the kids words if they stubbed their toe, if they were frustrated with the video game those kinds of things. I swear adult swears...noone seems to repeat me all that much, the baby once in awhile til he is old enough to have all the talks...but it really seems to work, and I also made a rule, because I am not big into sensoring my music, that if there is a swear said in a song, they are permitted to sing it as a part of the song only, like "get your A$! on the dance floor" line of a song. It is real, it is out there, they are going to hear it, so I don't sensor it from them, but I teach them how to handle it responsibly. For misuse of words, an appology to the offended party or a days grounding usually, if it was an adult swear....BOTH!

Karen I had to laugh reading this... Oh boy do I remember when my boys learned to speak like sailors amongst their peers. Right now my 2 year old grand son is saying son of a B*tch, when he drops something or something is not going his way. As funny as it was the first couple of times I heard him say it, it is not funny any longer... he Dad my son is a gamer, he playes xbox 360 on line, and this is his favorite exclamation when something is not going his way in a game... LMAO He wears a headset when playing and does not realize how loudly he is yelling it when he gets shot...LMAO. poor little Ashton is getting time out corner for only repeating what he's father is saying during games.... LMAO I think DAD is the one that needs the time out corner don;t you?

because of the environment we were in when my little one ws learning her vocabulary.. her cussing occaisionally became a natural state of affairs. (theres still a cloud of obsceneties that hangs over our street set there by my late fatherinlaw LOL) but shes been made aware that they are "inside" words and never uses them outside of the sanctity of the home. i cant very well punish her for doing things her father and i do ourselves, itd be hypocritical. so occaisional cussing theres never been any reprimand for.

My three year old niece has sworn in front of us twice, both times when she was two. The first time we were at my mom's house watching the Vicar of Dibley on tv, and one of the characters said 'b*t*h. Faithy parroted back what she heard, and was told that the lady on the tele was naughty for saying that word and she must never say it again.

The second time, we were in the car and my brother slammed on the brakes suddenly. We all flew forward and Faithy hit her head hard on the headrest, exclaiming, 'Oh, F**k!'. Nothing was really said about it besides, "Well she didn't hear that from me!"

I don't swear in front of the children. I've come close a few times though! My brother, sister and I have quite a few substitute words. We don't swear in front of our mother and grandmother either.

when my son was in his teens it seemed like all the
kids used the f word and that became my pet fuse
blower. Ihave always hated to hear anyone break
out in a string of those and I told my son he would
be grounded for a month if I heard him use the f
word. his dad never swore and I keep myself down to a
few d**ns. I just grounded him once. but once they are
grown then help. I just looked at him my forty nine year
old sound who had just lipped off with several f words
and said sure wish I could ground you now. He had to
laugh and then changed to a few darns instead. lol

Holy crap! I'm glad it wasn't the OTHER 'c' word!

When my youngest was first learning to talk, he had, like a lot of kids, trouble with the 'tr' combination.
We were visiting my mother and my son wanted to play with his grandpop's antique fire engine toy. He kept pointing and saying 'F*ck, F*ck, momma, F*ck'.
My mother gave me the lecture to end all lectures while she prepared to wash my son's mouth out with soap. I finally got her calmed down enough to hear me tell her he was saying 'truck, truck, momma, truck'. I don't really think she believed me, but oddly, after that falderol, my youngest never asked for the damn truck again! LOL

I grew up in a family that did not swear, but when I met my partner, who grew up in a family that did swear like troopers it was hard when we had kids as they became use to hearing swear words from their dad.
At the young age of 11 months my daughter blurted out on a bus "You bas**rd" to my horror and a friend of my mums overheard her in my mothers hall, while trying to wear my mums shoes saying the word f**k. Naturally she did not understand the meaning of these words and I never made an issue out of it as I knew this would make her want to use them even more.

I have had an ongoing battle to stop my kids swearing, but the culture they are growing up in, even outside the family home exposes them to every swear word under the sun. I hear parents say to me "My kid does not swear" and I hear myself saying "Yer, just not in front of you"

I know it is wrong and in certain contexts I will still chastise my kids for using these words, but I realise that after 9pm on our TV now they are exposed to all the swear words around. I know this is no excuse, maybe I am just to lenient, but if this is their only vice in todays world, then i will let them swear when they feel the need. All it is is a word, if does not hurt someone like the knife culture we have in the UK now, so even if it was seen as wrong years ago, compared to what is out there now I will let it go if it is a way they let off steam.
Does this make me a bad mum, I don't think so. I think I am just aware of todays society.
I remember what it was like to be a kid and to do the wrong things brought about a certain thrill. In our times though we never had our mates squeal on us as kids do now!!