Swearing in front of Gc.

I do try not to swear in front of children, but blaspheming doesn't bother me in the slightest, being an atheist.

I would never swear (in any form) in front of anyone - child or adult. There is no need for it.

I was on a bus a few weeks ago and everyone was tut tutting at the language of a couple of men at the back who were obviously a little drunk. They were f-ing and b-ing every second word I just turned round and politely said "hey guys, there's children on this bus, tone it down" and they apologised profusely and didn't utter another word until they got off.

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Cheese and rice
In desperation 'Bugga'

Boys are at school now and will sometimes say that another child has used a swear word in class or playground.
So they obviously hear swear words outside the home.

When telling us or parents that a classmate has been in trouble for saying a bad word, we always say 'please don't repeat'.
Even though they are hoppng from one foot to other bursting to say what the child has said!

No I wouldn't swear in front of my children or grandchildren, DH and I occasionally have a moment at home.

I have a very dear friend whose swearing got so bad we didn’t want to go out anywhere with her. Even her DH was upset by it, we were beginning to think she had Tourette’s it was so bad!!! However, someone (she has been spending more time with her brothers and sisters as they have all now retired) must have said something to her because it has stopped, so much more pleasant to be with her again. I find swearing quite offensive.

I don't sweat, don't see the point. I tried saying the f word once but it didn't give me any feeling of having let off steam as it is supposed to do.

Anyway, living in. a German environment, swearing is not really an issue. There are no equivalent words in the mainstream.

I was going over some song lyrics that a colleague of my husband's (an English teacher) had written. They were littered with expletives. He was genuinely surprised when I told him that these would be bleeped out, certainly on American radio. I'm not sure about British media as I know that these days quite a lot gets through.

Actually, I am sorry for my grandson as he has been brought up in a very genteel environment and doesn't even have any words (German or English) to express anger or frustration. He's beginning to pick some up at school, though

Driving… that’s the one where I forget. Some idiot will make me swear and I forget I’ve got a littlie in the back. She shamed me the other day by asking me why that man was a >^>>* Nannie? Aargh. I confessed to my DD just in case. She was cool fortunately. Knows life isn’t all rosy and smooth.

What I find most distasteful of all is the casual use of 'mother****er' in American movies. That is a totally foul word which has no place in mainstream use, yet Americans seem to accept it in movies. I have no idea whether it's a word in everyday use over there but if so then that's appalling.

As a Christian I find the constant use of ‘OMG’ in texts, emails etc very distasteful.

I hate blaspheming with a vengeance. I am a Christian. I think it is a lot more disrespectful than other swear words. I hate to hear children blaspheming. Swearing seems to be a bad habit which some people fall into.

Not a regular swearer here . I've had my moments but not many

However I'm quite sure our grandchildren have heard all these words and more at school or online

I don't swear in front of my children,now in their 30s nor in front of my dgs who is a toddler. I did once when he was in the car and another driver nearly caused an accident involving me. He said it once back in the house and laughed. I ignored it and he never said it again. I was pretty mortified and told his mum who was fairly sanguine about it

I don't swear in front of children, but then I don't swear very much anyway.

However, a well placed swear sometimes feels very satisfying, especially when driving or dropping a stitch while knitting.

Teacheranne the only child of mine that has sworn in my presence made it her avowed goal as a teenager to make me swear at her. It didn’t happen. ? But I do understand the benefit of shock tactics in your situation.

More surprisingly I went from being the worst mother in the world when she was in her teens to being the best mother ever now she has children of her own. ?

(Of course ‘everyone else’s mother’ was perfect back in the day - now, with hindsight, my child is horrified by what her friend’s parents allowed.)

When my son was a teenager, he was a real handful and as a single mum I struggled to know how to handle him - he still is a handful at age 38!

He went through a phase of shouting and swearing at me when I tried to put boundaries in place and I read somewhere about the tactic of shouting and swearing back at him. He let rip one day when we were in the garage with the door open and I confess I lost it and used some swear words back at him. He was so shocked at me also using foul language that he just calmed down and went back inside - he has never forgotten his reaction at his mum also knowing swear words!

The funny thing was after he went back in the house, I heard clapping from outside and saw my lovely neighbours in their garden congratulating me on how I handled things.

I don’t swear and I don’t blaspheme. Occasionally I need to write or repeat verbatim what someone else has said and I’m okay with that, it’s part of my job, but I think my adult children would fall down in a faint if they heard me swear. ?

Only one of my children has ever sworn in front of me, but I assume the others do swear occasionally, although never in front of their children and most definitely they wouldn’t blaspheme.

When my children were young I never criticised what other parents did or said, merely used the mantra that, “In our family we do/don’t do….”. Because we often had other people living with us we had a very clear ‘family’ identity that my children bought into.

There’s no need for swearing or blaspheming in every day conversation. It sounds, and is, awful. To use it in front of children in particular, is a ‘no no’ in my book, as they will see it as acceptable and normal language to use everyday, which, of course, it is not. It has its place, but not in every day conversation.

We are not a swearing family, never swore in front of our children and we don't in front of the grandchildren. The oldest is 10 and I've told them that there is a lot of swearing around now and they will hear other people doing it even in movies. I want them to be prepared to hear it but to understand that it isn't done in family settings and is not something to encourage.

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My son warned not to watch a particular movie when my 8yo GD was around because it had bad words in it. She piped up and said 'it's all right daddy, i know lots of bad words'.

That's reminded me of the time I told my two junior school age sons they couldn't watch a certain popular film:
"It's ok mummy, there's no swearing in it, it's just a bit of sex and violence." ?

I would never and I wouldn't have been okay with GPs swearing around my children when they were younger either. We're supposed to set an example.

Try not to but if so thing slips out DGC immediately pick it up - why? They don't pick up nice kind intelligent words! I find it so funny though when they come out with things you have said e.g. taking DD2 to work 2 weeks ago and there was a huge traffic jam with nothing moving (turned out to be temporary traffic lights) said " Well that's not good!" Now DGS2 (3) keeps saying "Granny that's not good!" However better than saying "FFS" definitely

That was reassuring, I'm sure.

My son warned not to watch a particular movie when my 8yo GD was around because it had bad words in it. She piped up and said 'it's all right daddy, i know lots of bad words'.

Yes, sometimes.
Living close to a senior school, there doesn't seem to be any teens at all who haven't got mouths like sewers.
I don't allow children to swear though.

No we don't. Their father does, and it makes me so uncomfortabel- and he would go really angry if grandchildren used the same language.