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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
My oldest daughter's very first curse word (over a year ago) was "motherfucker." Said it twice in a row. Fortunately, I sucessfully distracted her and she has never said it again (and the wife never heard it).
For quite a while, she would pop out with "Oh, crap!" or "Oh, Christ!" at very appropriate times. We have mostly got rid of that, though.
S_A_M
P.S. I agree with Atticus that Elmo is far preferable to Barney -- and I think Dora, Diego, the Wiggles, and Little Einsteins all beat the heck out of the Smurfs or Stawberry Shortcake. We are blessed.
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Our task was to morph the oldest son's appropriation of the word "fuck" into something more benign. "Fiddlesticks" was chosen, pretty successfully.
People still stare, but usually due to wonder at why the child selects a word not in current usage for the past 3 generations.
