potty mouth mothers

I think if you keep kids from swearing they're gonna think its a big deal and will probably do it to piss you off. If they hear curse words all the time they'll recognize that they are just words.

My parents never censored themselves when I was living with them. It helped turn me into who I am today.

 

Right or wrong, I have higher standards. No profanity. I want my kids to be respectful, and allowing them to spew garabage from their mouths certainly doesn't aide in that.

I'm not naive to think that my kids won't say things behind my back amongst friends especially as they get older, however, I have certain rules I expect to be followed in my household, and one of those is, you watch your mouth.

 

my mom swore only sometimes when she would drop something or spill something and her word was "shit". the only time i've really heard my dad swear is when he was yelling at me for something when i was a teenager. me, i try to censor myself *somewhat* around my kids but they've heard them all pretty much and my 5 year old has pretty much asked me what they all mean and i just say, "it's a bad word and you shouldnt say it" and she asks me if she can say it when she grows up and i say sure lol. people swear around them and say "oh sorry" and i just say its ok, they know not to say it. i think if they were going around repeating me all the time i would have to try and stop, but they seem to be ok with not saying it. so far....

 

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We try around here, doesn't always stay profanity free, but we don't care for it either. Kids are little spongues, they absorb everything, and I feel that people under estimate the amount of things children are aware of... it's not always obvious, but they are not stupid.

I feel it is disrespectful, I still refrain from cussing for the most part around my Mother and older people.... I think with the kids I sometimes overlook the fact they are around when I'm on the phone or something and it slips...

 

Yeah, kids are definitely little sponges! There have been quite a few times when I thought my kids weren't listening to something I said, only to hear them repeat it to someone else days later, something in which I really didn't want repeated. Ooops.

Just like, about a week ago, we were going over to my in-laws, and as we pull down the street I saw my brother in law in the distance heading into the house with, what I thought was a girl. I got all excited and told J that EJ brought a new girl with him to dinner...only to find it that it was his best friend, whom I've known for years, but he had his back turned to me, had his hair all piled up on his head in a ponytail, AND had a pinkish shirt on. So okay, you can understand I'd be a little thrown off, right?

Well what do you know, as soon as we get out of car and approach them, my 9 year old says "mom thought you were EJ's new girlfriend because she said you looked just like a girl from behind!" Well let me tell you, I was ready to run and hide, I was sooo embarassed. He was cool about it, but I could tell it kind of bothered him, the look on his face. Man, I felt so bad! I must have spent the next 10 minutes kissing ass, trying to smooth things over.

 

i'm actually kinda glad my parents taught me my ps & qs or whatever anymore. when i was younger though, it was kinda annoying. got my mouth washed out with soap too many times.

 

I had soap in the mouth too when I was a kid. Ugh. Horrible!

 

My dad cusses up a storm when he's pissed... I have only ever heard my mom say probably 5 cuss words in all the time I've been on earth. I cuss just as much as my dad, and so does my brother.

 

lol, i remember one time i used a napkin to wipe the soap off my tongue and my sister started laughing, my dad got pissed, and she got another dose of soap.

 

You know, I've never done the soap thing with my own kids. I don't think I ever will. I mean, it makes sense, dirty mouth, clean it up, but oh wow, it was just so nasty!

The one time I had soap put in my mouth I didn't even understand why. I was pretty young, and I used to hang out with a neighbor girl who was several years older than me. Well I think she got fed up with me tagging along the one day with her other friend (also older) so the two of them told my mother that I had said the "f" word. I didn't think that I said it, but who knows. I think they knew I'd get in trouble and figured it was a good way to get rid of me for the day. And that it did. Soap in the mouth, sent to bed.