Don't want DD's first word to be the F Bomb...

[Anonymous]

I have a 6 month old DD. Unfortunately DH has sworn like a sailor for years and he has made no changes since her birth. I have asked him numerous times to clean it up because pretty soon she'll be talking. He says he'll try and keeps going back to his old ways. I think he still believes that her speech development is a ways off and that he has plenty of time to modify his language. I try to tell him it's quite the opposite, that babies are little language sponges right now and DD will be dropping the F bomb in no time if he keeps it up. Am I overeacting? Is 6 months too early to pick up on this? Or does DH need a big bar of soap in the mouth?

[Anonymous]

You are not overreacting. DH needs to shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous]

My husband's got a potty mouth.

Mine is better, but not pristine.

My child does not curse.

When we slip, we don't emphasize or make a big deal of it. Instead, we focus on the "good" words.

[Anonymous]

Make a swear jar.

[Anonymous]

There's nothing cuter than a cussing toddler. I find it hilarious. But then I don't have one.

[Anonymous]

My cousin's first word was the F-word and she used it completely appropriately - it was hysterical. She'd drop something - F&*@! Bump her head - F&*@! So funny. But that's what it took to cure her parents! The baby got over it pretty fast once she stopped hearing it and got no attention for saying it.

[Anonymous]

It cured my dad when, after watching him drop something earlier that day, I said "damn M&Ms" after dropping some candy. I was 3 or 4 I suppose, but it still did the trick.

[Anonymous]

I am terrible with cursing. My child is still 4 and I am just as bad. She doesn't curse at all and the two or three times over the years she has said something I just ignored it and that was the end of it.

[Anonymous]

Our son was big on "dammit" - used contextually -- around age two. Definitely got us to clean up our mouths.

[Anonymous]

You don't change who you are once you have kids. (You can't marry someone and expect to change him/her either, right?) So don't worry. I curse like a sailor, too, and although my daughter has used some of my choice words correctly in context, she's never repeated them in school or in front of others - aside from her grandmother once.

So let it go. If your child says something "offensive," ignore it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not overreacting. DH needs to shut the fuck up.[/quote

I burst out laughing at this. Had to read it to my husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not overreacting. DH needs to shut the fuck up.[/quote

I burst out laughing at this. Had to read it to my husband.

I'm the OP and I burst out laughing too. And, I showed it to DH and he thought it was hilarious. Hopefully he'll take heed!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the laugh!

My father was staying with me during my baby's second week of life. I cursed and he got upset with me for cursing around the baby. This is a real concern for me and DD's father, and we do intend to stop cursing around her when she's a few months old, but I was pretty irritated at Dad. 2 weeks? Really? c'mon! perspective!

[Anonymous]

I weave a web of profanity on a daily basis. In fact, I specifically ask potential employees in job interviews if they have moral or religious objections to profanity because I use it a lot as do many of the people we come in contact with every day. That being said it is a herculean task for me not to curse in front of our daughter -- elementary school aged now. When she was 4 months, I was holding her at a party and talking to someone and cursing away. It took me awhile to curb it, but I did. So far, no pint sized cursing.

[maynie]

One day my daughter came to my husband and I and said her imaginary friend "Alyssa" said a bad word. Like idiots we ask her, "What did she say?" My daughter answers, "What the f**k?!!" Boy did we learn our lesson.