Hi, tl;dr just discuss children swearing. The opening post is not important.
So recently I was watching some video when a kid suddenly swore. I say the word on a day to day basis, but for some reason seeing a little kid saying it made me slightly uncomfortable, like I've never heard one swear before.
While I argue constantly that most swear words aren't really a big deal(although I still try to filter myself around my mother), do you guys feel that children are out of line if they start swearing? How would you react to your child swearing?
lmao I remember once I kept trying to look in the oven to see when the cookies were done and my mom was getting mad so I was like "I KNOW, I KNOW, I'M A LITTLE PR1CK" and I was literally six yrs old. everyone laughed.
deletedover 8 years
in 5th grade i forced 'fuck' into all my convos because my new cool friends said it
i think it's hilarious when children swear, i was one of them. in fact, i think its better that i got it out before i was 13 and onward because i feel like around that age you tend to swear just because its cool and its oddly placed, clearly forced and uncomfortable. adding it as a word purely to do it is just wrong and embarrassing, but you can be pardoned as a dumb child.
however i could see why its worrisome, it's just that in a realistic world nobody would stop swearing altogether in front of kids if they tend to do it naturally and children r sponges
deletedover 8 years
shoutout to all other youths that were real potty-mouths at the foursquare court
good day johnny, would you be a sport and relinquish your lunch funds? i'm feeling quite famished this morning. do oblige as it would be terribly unfortunate should i have to escort you to the dumpster.
no all violence is phycisal you can say a bad word and hurt someone so its not stick and stones but names can also hurt, i used to be bullied alot because of my crutches and the same kids who used bad language were the one who were the most violent. so we need to teach kids not to use bad words as we already do!
ok but swearing is vocal violence thats why u can be arrested for abuse if you yell at a child.
im not saying kids who say bad words are violent but they are more likely to be violent if you teach them bad words and then they grow up and dont learnt the manners of being nice. i dont know about elbows on the table but its not as violent as saying bad words so you cant compare them. if you see a child say a bad word like p*ss they are more likely to not follow the rules when they grow up. its simple logic.
There really isn't an objective way to look at this. But personally, I think if you allow kids to swear like it's no big deal than you are also letting them abuse those swear words as well. Some swears are just replacement of adjectives but some give insults more power, like calling someone a b*tch, or a stupid f*ck. Idk i just don't think kids should be allowed to swear, and when they do I think there should be some sort discipline involved.
My mom still gets mad at me when i swear. But it's bc she thinks its very unbecoming of a woman (even tho she swears all the time?)
This is anecdotal evidence but I know many more people who swear than I do people who are violent.
There's lots of 'rules' in society that are not there for a reason (at least no reason in present day) such as putting your elbows on the table can be seen as rude. There is nothing inherently rude about it, its just another arbitrary social rule.
This can mostly be applied to swearing. There's no reason that 'píss' is unacceptable but 'urinate' is other than society deciding so.
deletedover 8 years
Anyway, aside from the science behind swearing. Children should not say things that are slurs, like N*gger. But normal words are eh because tbh nowadays they hear it everywhere and they will swear behind there parents backs with there friends anyway. parents should just not tell them swear words and if they use them tell them there bad, but you know there gonna use them with there m8's anyway. just racial slurs and other slurs are out of the question, you dont say to your mates as your typical child "yeah that guys being such a c*nt he told on me what a sandn*gger"
deletedover 8 years
Swearing is actually natural, a response of pain is to shout something like "F*ck" because that helps our mind ease pain more, its much better when in great pain to swear rather than shout some other word
rules are there for a reason sometimes they are bad but most of the time they are good. if you ever met someone who uses swear words like 75% of the time they are also violent. non-violent people do use bad words because it is language violence
