Calling All Parents.

I have a 3 year-old that learned the F-word. Yeah, some say he's a late bloomer, but we've been trying to keep him in a sheltered life.

Well, I had it with 'ignoring it' typically he slips once or twice a day. Today, the second time I postered and yelled him. He looked at me like he had no clue what I was saying. Later in the day, he was playing and saying "F-ing this, f-that, f-ing truck, f, f, f"

Has anyone sucessfully beating this phase without beating the kid?

tom

 

kids at that age don't know what it means. its best if you ignore it. the more attention you give to it, the more he'll want to say it.

 

Who taught him the word?

 

I agree with lorien...ignore it and he'll quit saying it.

 

you can also try to tell him that it's not a word to say and try to explain why. but yeah - he doesn't have any idea what it means at that age.

 

The F-word is not used in coversation here. We don't allow people to cuss in our house, and the likely hood he heard me(wifey doesn't cuss) is extremly rare(since he's not allowed around me when I'm working on the car).

So, that leaves TV and that's all my fault. We watch "guy-movies" and sometimes the word is said. I've now changed my movie habits with him around. No more kill bill, or Resident Evil. (just kidding!).

Doomed.

 

LMAO... this reminds me of the "meet the fockers" movie... when the little kid starts saying ass...hooooole.....

 

My daughter was saying that word at 2 years old!

Ok, so she was trying to say "fork" and couldn't pronounce it. Still got some horrified looks from her grandparents.

 

My daughter said the S word not too long ago. Then I acted confused and said "Ship? Where's a ship?"... continued by talking about why ships are cool and what kinds of ships there are. It worked at least for now.

 

(warning : not a parent =] )

I could be wrong, I don't know much about the brain activity of 3 year olds, but it seems odd that he says "f---" and "f---ing truck" like he knows it's a word and a descriptive word. Can a 3 year old conjugate (?) a word like that without hearing it both ways repeatedly? Just curious... if he was just walking around saying f--- then I'd think he just stumbled on it, or heard it somewhere and enjoyed saying it... hey, it's a fun word. LOL.

I remember when I was a little kid, we used to say some bad words and had no idea they had any inappropriate meaning, like removing the T and adding a Y to hornet, just because... LOL.

 

Well I think, just ignore him , thats the best idea i guess.
As it was stated earlier, he just says it, doesn't knows what it means so there is no problem at all.

Not to worry

 

yah, just ignore him. the more you reprimand him about it, the more he will think about it. kids at that age learn more in associating things with particular things.

 

you just have to ignore it i guess.. it is at that age that kids imbibe things they hear, see, observe in their surroundings so easily. but just like any other case, the more that you just let it pass, the more probable that he'll just forget about it upon learning something new that will preoccupy his interest (at the moment).

 

yah. ignore it or you will stir up the kid's curiousity about the F- word.

 

Give him a dollar every time he says it....

j/k

 

Lol, same here. First time I said F I was about 6 (people had morals back then and didn't swear in front of kids, etc, so I didn't know what cussing was until I was 8) and I was replacing letters in words. I took duck, dropped the d, put an f there and my mom turned around and slapped me through the face and simply told me not to say that word ever again, else it'd be the belt. I never did say that word again, until I was about 14.

 

I had my 5 year old watching my brother-in-law (17) playing halo and it said "what the hell" and he repeated it. I gave him a gentle slap (which shocked him) and told him not to say that again, that it isn't a nice thing to say.

Sometimes things work so much better to just ignore that Dr.spock guy... My kids are a pleasure for other people besides ourselves, and we can take them places without driving people nuts.