In my house we sometimes swear. Not to be crude, or inappropriate, or to sound like an ex-navel officer turned trucker, it just seems to fly out every now and then, before it can be caught and all those very offensive little "hells", "shits", and "fucks" can be turned into "hecks", "shoots" and "fiddlesticks".
Once while driving the kids around I did manage to catch myself, well almost, and shouted out "fuckadoodledoo" when I missed my turn. So then I had my daughter saying "Mom, whats fuckadoodledoo mean?" and then my son just saying "duckadoodoo", "duckadoodoo" over and over again. So I really can't be surprised when I hear profanity spontaneously fly out of my kids mouths. Sometimes I even have to stifle my laughter at their use of it. Like when my husband was reprimanding our youngest, who was then 3, and yelled out in frustration "Luke, if you don't start behaving, I'm going to spank your ass!" To which he burst into tears and started yelling "Mommy, Daddy gonna spank my asshole!"
My daughter who is 5, is what I call a "closet curser". She's old enough to know its wrong so she doesn't really swear around adults. But every now and then I hear her playing with her brothers and "dam" or "oh shit" fly out of her mouth. So of course I have to play the bad guy and remind her that those are bold words and kids can't use them, and adults aren't suppose to say them, but they do sometimes when they are mad or forgetful.
Then there is my stepson who is the oldest at 8. He just has me baffled. I don't think he understands that phrases he uses with his friends at school are not appropriate for everyday conversation, let alone while sitting in Taco Bell with your family. So when he told his little sister to go "suck it" (very loudly, I might add) and I asked him to repeat what he just said in that tone that you know you said something inappropriate so you shouldn't say it again, but he repeated "suck it" with out batting an eye. That was one of those moments in life when you kinda want to smack your child but of course that is not only frowned upon, but illegal. So I had to settle for yelling at him in a very stern whisper voice and telling him why he shouldn't use that phrase, and if I ever heard it out of his mouth again he would be picking soap out of his teeth for a week. Then to have him say on the way home how much the newest video game he played yesterday sucked, so I had to ban him from using the word suck all together because he didn't know how to use it in "non-swear" form.
Although to add a little Yin to my family's Yang, we are very big on manners and nine out of ten times we all (kids included) remember to use the correct pleasantries so I figure that sort of cancels out at least some of the bad language. And in the future I would have to give them a few extra points if one of them ever tells me to "please" shut the fuck up, because they did say please and all, and politeness is half the battle.
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