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?
ok but then if every kid does it it becomes to say its ok like littering if you say its just one piece but if everyone does it we would have garbage everywhere
i agree that swearing is bad specially for children because as a society we have rules that say what is okay and what isnt and one of the rules is that kids shouldnt swear becuse its not nice i agree with this because if kids started swearing they would grow up to be more violent and then they would say F U as an adult to peolpe and not be nice people in society
swearing as hyperbole is a bad substitute for adjectives, people who don't find swearing offensive often avoid it just because it makes you sound illiterate
i started swearing around last year this time but i never went above sh.t (you know theres a swear scale come on) i dont say some words and i dont like to use it in a hateful, i use it as an expression of almost a hyperbole (big a.s tree, f.cking huge. ect).
I only started swearing about last year and I only swear when I stab my foot. reason is cause as i was growing up in my family and outisde in school no one swore :P
swearing is only bad because we condishion ppl to think they are bad words.
the reason people dont like to hear children swear is because they think children are young and impressionable enough that they have the potential to grow up with some degree of class whereas it's too late for the rest of us we already substitute proper etiquette and articulation for whatever naughty word sounds like it has the most weight behind it and when you think about it, using words that mean nothing just to express a strong sense of emotion is really primitive like an animal roaring because it has no better way to express itself while we have the most comprehensive and intricate languages in history and yet we devolve to animals when we forget how to use them
people still have hope for children to be better than us which is why they're generally held to higher standards of etiquette, because at least we can try not to poison the next generation with our blatant flaws
After a bit more thought, I think I care about how kids swear rather than if they swear.
I've been desensitized to casual child swearing, but like I said before it'll get on my nerves if it's excessive and/or repetitive. That sort of thing annoys me no matter what age people are, but in my experience children tend to be more liberal with their swears since it's new and cool and exciting and they haven't quite learned how those words lose their punch after a while.
On the other hand, I think I'd be very concerned if my brother cussed out my dad or something, but not any more than if my twin did it. At that point scolding would be worse than useless, so if I ever saw that happen I'd pull my lil bro aside and try to calm him down.
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Or they have experienced a lot of swearing as they grew up.
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Not swearing, I think, is a sign of discipline and transition but sometimes this can be restricting for the child when they reach a certain age (teenage), but it should be a normal thing as one grows up.
Tbh I think young kids who swear either are trying to be edgy or trying to appear like adults who they look up to and swear, which is natural I believe.
I tend to judge by case. Kids I don't know that swear? Meh, fine by me. A kid that I know that uses swears in a derogatory and rude manner instead of an exclamatory manner? Cringe-worthy AF and I question if he's being properly disciplined. A kid that I know that uses it in an exclamatory manner? Really depends on how loud they've shouted it, and even then I'll still be pretty lenient.
When I went to study in China for a year, I was 12 and placed into a class of 10 year olds due to the language disparity. The next day, they kept on shouting rude things in English that even I didn't know to my little brother and I as we walked home from school. Kids will often rebel using language. It really depends on what they use it for.
my 7-year-old brother swears under his breath all the time and he thinks we don't notice hehe
I personally didn't really start swearing until I got into high school, but I don't really care if kids do it so long as they don't keep using the same words over and over. gets kind of annoying :/
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One other thing; at what age does it become automatically acceptable for people to swear? Should it be a privilege for adults, like voting or consuming alcohol?
deletedover 8 years
Children are constantly told not to swear. Them swearing is a sign of disobedience and so they must be punished fittingly.
This being said, it's strange to hear them swear since they're usually conditioned into not swearing.
