{"id":363,"date":"2006-07-11T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/07\/11\/teaching-your-child-to-curse\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T17:17:31","slug":"teaching-your-child-to-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Your Child to Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of nearly teaching my child to swear when asking for candy<\/a>, I came across a mom who curses a lot wondering how to deal with this issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In any case, this is a sticky issue for me. I once vowed not to morph into one of those uptight parents who tries to raise their kids in a bubble. And I never gave much thought to my language when there wasn’t a tiny human in the house.<\/p>\n

Now, I get annoyed when my husband plays a semi-violent video game in her presence. The hip-hop music he likes is now verboten when she’s in the car with us; why didn’t all the violence and misogyny in the lyrics faze me pre-baby?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can tell you why they should faze you now: because your child doesn’t yet have the context to deal with these kinds of messages. Adults have all kinds of filters and contextual knowledge to determine when something is appropriate or not. We can deal with conflicting information, and we can tell that the violent video game is not real and is not to be emulated in real life.<\/p>\n

As far as cursing goes, it offends people. I’d rather not have my child offending people on accident. Swearing is a tool, and it’s silly to give Eli unrestricted access to that tool before he’s really capable of using it. Yes, he’ll hear cursing. Some of it he may hear from me. It’s not my job to protect him from it forever — it’s to give him the context he needs as he’s old enough to handle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of nearly teaching my child to swear when asking for candy, I came across a mom who curses a lot wondering how to deal with this issue. In any case, this is a sticky issue for me. I once vowed not to morph into one of those uptight parents who tries … Continue reading Teaching Your Child to Curse<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t