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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FFS, ladies.  Lighten up while there's still time.[/quote]

No, you're the one who needs to tighten up your standards for children and the way they are permitted to speak.[/quote]

Serious question: why?

When I make rules for my children, the only things I disallow are either 1) things that harm another person or infringe on someone's rights, or 2) things that are against the rules of somewhere my children happen to be or an activity in which they are engaged.

I wouldn't allow my child to swear at someone, because rudeness to another person is rarely if ever needed or acceptable, but I fail to see how my kid saying that the weather, or a movie, or something "sucks" is harmful to anyone. My kid doesn't have the right to harm others, but why impose limits that don't matter? To my way of thinking there's no difference between "is horrible", "stinks", and "sucks", so I wouldn't see a reason to have a standard requiring my child to say one but not the other.[/quote]

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