Hi Mummas,
What are your boundaries around your teenagers swearing? What do you allow and what do you not? How do you instil theres a time and a place for it?
Hi Mummas,
What are your boundaries around your teenagers swearing? What do you allow and what do you not? How do you instil theres a time and a place for it?
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No matter what, they will cuss weather u allow it or now. Even if they stop infront of u, they will have a filthy mouth away from you.
My son has adhd. Every second sentence that came out of my mouth was, stop swearing! After a year or 2, I gave up.
They’re going to swear whether you want them to or not. Teach them when it’s not appropriate and set consequences for when they do swear at inappropriate times. I’ve been very lucky with my boys. My 18 year old has only just started swearing in front of me in the last couple of months. I have no doubts that he would have been swearing for much longer than that with his friends. My 16 year old makes a big deal about me being inappropriate on the rare occasions I swear. I wouldn’t be surprised if he swears when with his friends, but he doesn’t at home with me yet.
I thought I did well with my kids because their Dads way of talking is like 90% swearing. I am the opposite. Then they became teenagers and I drove myself crazy trying to stop them swearing but I have learned to settle for just conversation is fine, frustration or pain is fine but not out in public, school and not at someone. Like there's a difference between swearing in someone's company and swearing at someone. Like "Get me a fucking drink". I've also been thinking about it all in the last few years as my Mum doesn't like swearing so I find myself defending them and myself a lot of the time. I have come to the conclusion that "swear words" are really outdated and the idea of words being blasphemous is really religious and ancient, yet we are still worried about them in 2023. Like we don't care about sex before marriage, abortion, divorce, christenings and all that stuff anymore so we are we as a society worried about words? I think in the near future they will just be like any other word which is logically how it should be.