When I picked him up at the city's rec program that he attends, he greeted me with the words, "I said a bad word today."
Turns out, it wasn't a bad word; it was the bad word.
Before we left, I made him formally apologise to the girl leading the group. Then, we had a lo-o-ong talk in the van.
I won't speculate on where he heard the word. I know it wasn't from me, but - let's face it - he has two older brothers who have lots of friends hanging around. Could've been from there.
Oops! Guess that was me speculating, wasn't it?
Oh dear.....
Any ideas how I should deal with this?
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WHAT THE FU** IS GOING ON IN THE MENTOK HOME WHERE YOUR YOUNGEST IS SWEARING?!!?!?
There's something fu**ing wrong here...and I don't mean to be the one fu**ing assuming or anything but I think it was his fu**ing father!
Lol kidding
I have always found that if you make a really big deal out of things that kids will never do them again.
Or is it the other way around.
Maybe try both..
Hippo - If he could read, I'd be blaming you!
Happy - I did sort of try both. We made a huge deal out of it yesterday, then not so much today. Then a review before I dropped him off again today.
No problems today - linguistically speaking, anyway. Cross your fingers for the rest of the summer. ;-)
We don't use bad words here. Not even P*ss or Sh*t or D*mn or anything.
But we DO say "Friggin'" or "Freakin'". When said by a small child in a fit of rage, it can sound like THE F word. Usually does. And let's face it, we might as well be saying the real one!
Then I made the mistake of referring to it as "THE F word". So if they say it and no one heard, they might hear me remind the child, "We don't say the F word, remember??" Then I REALLY get disgusted looks from people! LOL
My two youngest don't even know what the true F word is!!! The older two only recently heard it. They had no idea what it was of course. I thought I did great keeping them from that word for this long, don't you?? LOL
As for dealing with it, just tell him you don't want him to say it. Say we don't use those words, they are rude. Then pretty much leave it, I think. I dunno.
There isn't much you can do, they hear it eventually anyway. As long as he doesn't hear his family say it, that is all you can really do. But I think if you make too big a deal out of it, depending on his personality and how much of a "pleaser" or a "rebel" he is, you may make it worse. He may love the attention he gets if he does use it, you know what I mean???
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