This will change things in the bedroom

We've been casual about swearing, and now the 15yo spends most of dinner time dropping F-bombs about just regular life situations.

I grew up church-bent too and have treated cussing as an indulgence when an intensifier is called for. My wife does the same thing but seems to have very frequent occasions to intensify. The kiddo takes after Mom, and honestly it's a little jarring. It's probably too late to have the talk about reserving some clean headroom :unsure:
 
derevaun said:
We've been casual about swearing, and now the 15yo spends most of dinner time dropping F-bombs about just regular life situations.

I grew up church-bent too and have treated cussing as an indulgence when an intensifier is called for. My wife does the same thing but seems to have very frequent occasions to intensify. The kiddo takes after Mom, and honestly it's a little jarring. It's probably too late to have the talk about reserving some clean headroom :unsure:
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Clean headroom is a really good way to put it. When swearing constantly is your norm, there isn't a lot of contrast and it loses its impact. I heard my dad swear once in my entire life when I was 19, and because I had never heard him swear for 19 years it was a huge deal.
 
As with everything, moderation is the way. I do firmly believe that it's our duty as parents to teach our kids how and when to properly emphasize a fucking sentence.

My father in law is anti swearing and I really enjoy peppering the conversation with a few when we're hosting them. "I dare you to tell me not to say fuck in my own kitchen while I'm cooking you food."
 
jjjimi84 said:
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Every swear word is a dollar, f word is two. I am so f$@king f@&ked.

As a son of a truck driver and a twenty year railroader, this is going to be an expensive year. Look for a dkpedals liquidation sale to fund my one of my last bad habits.

Anybody else do this?

In three weeks I have been caught nine times..
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If I put one of these in my car…? Boyo, I could buy an blackface bassman by month's end. Maybe even week's end depending on how many h*ckin goblins I encounter.

I've been trying to sub in text, hoping it will carry over to speech. Comedic/meme-ish stuff like h*ck, asterisk and all. It's h*ckin hard.

My hat is off to you, sir.
 
My wife did an outstanding job of not swearing around our son when he was little. Our son's building blocks would fall over and we'd hear "oh for gooness sakes!". But for our friend when her little fella's blocks fell over it was "Oh for fucks sakes!!" And she couldn't be mad because she knows where that came from.

I used to tell my son that we didn't mind swearing but swearing too much just makes you look dumb. And swearing at people is not good. Once he got to high school he did mention once or twice "Geez you guys swear a lot more than you used to!"
 
Both my parents were genteel southerners, so I would get my ass kicked for saying "crap" or "fart" as a kid, it never crossed my mind to use an actual fuck word around them. We lived on base for most of my childhood and at some point the army did a class for parents about how you shouldn't beat your kids, after that I could say anything I wanted and they were powerless to stop me. I don't know if any of that had a positive or negative effect on my life. The moral of the story is that probably nothing matters.
 
We were in the backyard picking strawberries today. My 3 year old and I. He grabbed one to pick a slug had gotten to, i said dont eat that a slug did. Without skipping a beat Dylan tosses the strawberry and says “damn slugs”. About this age my 7 year old said it too, apparently i need to work on that one.
 
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