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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, here.  Thanks for the advice and thoughts.

But basic reading comprehension... in post, note, [b]I did not use the word bad, (in fact was steering my kids away from the word) my children did,[/b] I tried to focus on saying the other child was adjusting to a new school.

The child in question is actually *attacking* other children - which has made the message 'just worry about yourself'  harder to say just worry about yourself if you and your friends feel like potential *targets*), one of the teachers in the class is spending nearly all their time with just the one child, and child has been sent home from school in the middle of the day a couple times already - so it is a fairly disruptive situation.  And clearly a kid that seems like he needs extra behavioral psychological help.  It's not like in my other child's class where there are a couple kids who lose some behavior points etc.  [/quote]

Maybe you did not use it with your kids but you do use it in your post title.

And more to the point it seems like you are letting your kids use it.  "Steering" them away from a word is not enough in my house.  I clearly remember the first time I heard either of my children refer to a child as bad - my 3yo was talking about a child in his class and said "____ is a bad boy. He doesn't listen."  He was referring to a boy with downs who just joined his class.  I was understandably horrified and came down emphatically on the use of the word, "We NEVER use that word to describe a classmate or friend. NEVER."  I remember him trying it out again within a few days but not since.

There are words that my children (5 & 7) know not to use or not to use in certain ways and we draw a hard line.  I actually got chastised by my son the other night when he heard me call my laptop "stupid".  [/quote]

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