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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
It's not realistic to think that your kids won't curse, or hear bad language. I think it's important to start talking about context with them as soon as you can, so they understand that in some situations it's not okay for anyone to use certain words. So far, I've found that doing this -- acting like cursing is not the forbidden fruit, but just another thing that they need to be careful about -- Sidd Jr. doesn't get the illicit thrill from cursing that I did at his age, and doesn't want to do it so much. If he says a word to me, I won't get mad at him but will make sure he knows that what's okay to say to me in the car isn't okay to say in school or in front of his little sisters.
About the worst word he says with any frequency is "fart". On a recent vacation, in order to avoid having his sister learn that word (she 3, and would repeat it constantly), we renamed the word "cheeseburger." That way, we could be standing on line and say to each other "oof, it smells like someone is grilling cheeseburgers here!" Good times.
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The Monster is 12, and he currently gets a thrill out of calling me a fuckhead, dildo, or any of a variety of interesting names. He's sort of testing his independence. My father would have busted my jaw. I've slapped him on the back of the head a couple of times, but concluded that nothing short of a police-involvement level dull-scale beatdown would get him to stop.
So, I'm ignoring it. But, in 4 years, the little fucker will have a driver's license. I wonder who's going to be the fuckhead then.
