Swearing in notes!
I can’t believe that I am coming out on this side of the debate, but I now think swearing is OK. I am of an age where we were all taught that swearing proved a “lack of imagination,” but after trying to “fight the good fight,” I am now accepting of whatever (vulgar) language my adult children speak in front of me, and here is one example of how it can all be OK for the next generation:
My granddaughter at about 2½-years-old heard our other daughter, her aunt, say “shoot.” Granddaughter said, “Aunt L, you don’t have to say ‘shoot,’ you can say ‘shit,’ because you are a grown-up.”
I am telling you, it is a new day.
My youngest grandson is 8 now. When he was about 2 1/2 he got upset with his sister and told her to F off. I was so shocked and asked him not to say that bad word. He looked right at me and said, Gramma you not my boss, my Mommy lets me say it in the house. Oh man, poor Gramma L , but, my daughter affirmed it, and I just shut up about it. I am NOT his boss or anyone’s and was a guest in their home, lol.
Love it!
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If you want to swear on a note to me, feel free. I am not my brothers keeper. But I am a Dad, and I’m teaching my children to be responsible. To many patents are afraid of this task, and failing at it.
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When I was little, I remember hearing a story about a neighbor who came home and asked her mother, “How do you say hello backwards?” Her answer was “Oh hell!” Her mother was mortified. This was decades ago. I think a well placed ‘fuck’ is appropriate sometimes.
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That’s a hilarious story, thanks for that and your input!
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I am not a stickler for ‘not swearing around my kids’. They don’t repeat it, they know not to.
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I still abstain from using profanity in my parents’ presence because I know they find it offensive. When my son was 11 or 12 he popped off at the mouth about something and used one of The Four Letter Words. I told him he wasn’t allowed to do that in my presence or under my roof until after he was 18 since those words were ‘adult vocabulary’. He went into the whole “it isn’t fair that adults get to do things kids don’t” so I offered to let him get a job and pay the bills like an adult so I could stay home and things would be “fair”. He never used that argument again.
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Out of the mouths of babes. 🙂
When my oldest was a toddler, he had spent almost a year by that time surrounded by Marines (his dad and his dad’s buddies). When we went to visit Grandma, she took him for a walk outside, and he said, “Grandma, look at those f’kin ants!” Just casually, like it was a simple adjective, and he didn’t know it was a bad word.
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That is hilarious. 😄
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