I tell my 7 yo she needs to know her audience. She can say whatever words she wants in front of me. I have told her it is my job to help her understand appropriateness and context. If she is caught offending a teacher, friend or whatever, she is in trouble, not for language but for not being respectful. I do not give the language itself much power.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks and sounds very low class to have a little 7 year old saying frick. Put an end to it now.

Imagine them sounding and/or appearing 'low class', oh the horror!!

I bet all the parents at the country club would gossip endlessly about their kid and his their foul language.

You should totally own it. Teach your third grader to call people "motherfrickers"' and to tell people to "fack off"

Anonymous wrote:It looks and sounds very low class to have a little 7 year old saying frick. Put an end to it now.

Imagine them sounding and/or appearing 'low class', oh the horror!!

I bet all the parents at the country club would gossip endlessly about their kid and his their foul language.

Introduce a non f alternative for him to use.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a household that lets my 16yo curse so I’m straddling the line on if I’m being too prudish with clutching my pearls over “frick you” and “what the frick”. I tended not to allow my older kids to say “what the __” so I’m trying to be reasonable given the rise of internet type language (bruh, bro, fuhhh, etc)

Do you allow “frick”?

No. We use the curse words correctly, or we don't use them at all. Teach them right!

It looks and sounds very low class to have a little 7 year old saying frick. Put an end to it now.

Anonymous wrote:no, any version with frick is not appropriate for a 7 year old. i don't particularly like hearing it from any age person.

Everyone knows what frick is substituting for and kids don’t need training wheels cursing. So either allow actual curse word or don’t.

Anonymous wrote:"Son, we're Battlestar Galactica fans in this house. It's "frak", not "frick"".

So say we all!

Anonymous wrote:What the heck, what the, are both ok. What the frick is not.

None ok.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be fine with what the heck but not what the frick. And I curse like a mofo when around adults only.

*nods grimly*

So weird. The actual intent behind fu*k, frick and heck is exactly the same. Is it the resonance of the specific syllables that creates a problem or is it the idea itself? I just don’t get it.

There's some evidence that swear words share some linguistic patterns across language. In English we tend to swear with hard consonants.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/world/swear-word-similarities-cec

OP, my 10 year old girl said this for the first time today and I told her she needs to stop immediately. Frick = F*ck and it's wrong Gand inappropriate. I'm okay with "heck" but typically we say something silly like "what the puppy?" and I much prefer that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be fine with what the heck but not what the frick. And I curse like a mofo when around adults only.

*nods grimly*

So weird. The actual intent behind fu*k, frick and heck is exactly the same. Is it the resonance of the specific syllables that creates a problem or is it the idea itself? I just don’t get it.

It would not bother us. It seems like a weird thing to obsess about. They're just words, and not even "bad" ones.

Anonymous wrote:Time for your kid to read "Frindle".

Ha!

Anonymous wrote:I'd be fine with what the heck but not what the frick. And I curse like a mofo when around adults only.

*nods grimly*