Cursing Around the Little One
Sometimes, I can't help it. I really try, but I slip. I drop something or I smash my foot (because I'm a horrible clutz), and I let out "shit!" or "damn it!" or whatever else I shouldn't be saying in front of a little girl that is quickly learning all the words in my vocabulary. My wife is a teacher; she has run into the occasional student who curses like a sailor. What kid doesn't imitate their parents? They don't know any better. I would feel ashamed of myself if my daughter ever was that way. I know it doesn't matter to some people, but it matters to me.
I think the trick is not cursing ever. Not just when she's in the room, but all the time. Maybe I should get a swear jar or something. Do those help? Every time I curse, I plunk a quarter in the jar. Eventually, I should learn not to do it, right? Old habits die hard, so I'm really going to have to be conscious of this all the time.
D.
January 7th, 2010 - 09:36
The good news is that you still have some time to get rid of certain words in your vocabulary. You know that you’ve master it when you stub your toe (or hurt yourself in a major way) and you yell out “oh fiddle sticks” or something equally as silly.
Oddly enough, I got rid of the major bad words but the ones that I forgot about were things like “oh my god” and things like that. It’s taken a good month or two to get Connor to stop saying that.