I only really swear at car drivers, whether I’m in one or not, it just comes naturally. My 3 year old thankfully only said “get a f***ing move on” once straight after me and hasn’t repeated it since… oopsy.

I know a couple who looked after their friends children for the night . After the youngsters went to bed he got pissed and they had an argument . When he woke up next morning he realised he had been a bit of a dick and went downstairs with a paper bag over his head with the C word printed across the front by way of admitting that he was out of order . Later that morning there was a knock on the door and he answered it and it was his friends , who’s children he had been looking after . Noticing a look of horror on their faces he turned round to see their 5 year old daughter stood behind him with that paper bag over her head with the C word across the front .

That ^
Is weird on so many levels

Swearing in front of young kids…Yay of f’ing nay…

Nay. No. Nein. Non. ???. ???.

Can’t see a problem, as long as no one is being verbally abused, sock it to the little c***8, never forget when my daughter first called me a f****** w*****.

This the same Dr P who lost his temper with his son at BBB 2014 and had a loud, sweary outburst that left us raising our eyebrows in middle class disgust?

They hear it all the time, but need to know their boundaries. No is the answer.

I try not to swear in front of mine but experience of the playground and the football field tells me that they’ll hear it all anyway. The first time I took my son to watch a football match I explained afterwards that there was a time and place for that kind of langauge and it should stay in the stadium. I’ve also explained to him that it has its uses when used in moderation but there are many many other words we can also use. He’s 13 this year and over the last year or two I’ve happily let him listen to some of the funnier profanity laden podcasts that I listen to, like the Bugle.

He’s 13 this year and over the last year or two I’ve happily let him listen to some of the funnier profanity laden podcasts that I listen to, like the Bugle.

When you gonna introduce him to Derek and Clive?

My nearly year old wouldn’t dream of swearing, she tells me off for saying “bloody”, which is referred to as the “B” word. A few months ago, she said someone had used the “C” word at school, I must admit I was quite shocked, it turned out it was “Christ”

I often think about this. Is it the case that if we swear a lot it takes the offense out of it and we effectively become more civilised?

Look at the film situation; relatively hardcore porn and horror is now in mainstream films. 20-25 years ago we were all asking for the box under the counter.

The point being we don’t care now what’s in our films we’ve got over it. It’s not sensational any longer. We see the bigger picture of whether a film is good or bad.

However I’m all for the innocence of being a child. The trouble is GTA destroys it all.

I grew up on a farm so I think I’d learned the full set by the age of 10 including the obscure ones.
We knew it wasn’t language for the house or school or generally when parents were listening if you didn’t want to get into trouble.
As for these days I just know how to express myself in most situations and when dropping bombs is appropriate.

It was however a shock when I took my mother the head teacher to the football, would make sailors blush…

This the same Dr P who lost his temper with his son at BBB 2014 and had a loud, sweary outburst that left us raising our eyebrows in middle class disgust?

I would very much doubt that! I may get mad at the little dude, but a loud sweary outburst is not my style…

DrP

I try not to, but as I don’t have my own kids, dont get a lot of practice at holding my tongue so sometimes fail miserably. Doesn’t help that the nearest thing I have to kids, my god daughter, ‘s mum is a professional swearist who could make Gordon Ramsay blush.

Swearing is a life skill, you need to know when its appropriate and acceptable and when its not. I sometimes swear in front of my kids, but I don’t use swearing as every second word in a sentence like some do. My boys know that swearing is not usually acceptable, but that they occasionally slip out and as long as its not in front of your Grandma that’s not the end of world.

If you never swear at all in front of your children they will just pick it up at school anyway…

I don’t swear at all.

Only if I mash my toe on furniture as I bite my tongue?

Learn self control?

I have self control, I also swear… It’s not either or. A life of polite words sounds dull. Swearing just to sound cool is crass, a well rounded vocabulary is worth it.

My Dad is a pretty gently sort of a guy but thinks that ‘sh*t’ is a not a swear word – seemingly because he was brought up on a farm. So I wasn’t impressed when I got into trouble for using it at school.

My son has heard me swear, seems to realise it’s not to be used in normal conversation.