How to Handle Your Child Cursing

Picture this: you’re having a playdate at your friend's house.    The kids request a popsicle so your mom's friend hands each one a nice, fun summer treat.  Everyone is happy and smiling and it’s just a wonderful, wholesome moment.   Then your child accidentally spills a drop of purple popsicle on their shirt- they look down and…  Bombs away!   They drop the F-bomb.  😮   Now everyone is staring in disbelief and you can’t decide if this is one of those moments where you laugh (afterall, it was timed perfectly) OR if you sternly correct them for using a bad word.  Which one do you choose?    This is actually a common question and occurrence with children.    They hear a word and repeat it. And sometimes those words are more…colorful than others.    How do you handle your child cursing?     This isn’t going to be a shame-y, “OMG children should never say that!”, kinda thing either.    Whether you decide to let them use the language or not is up to you– afterall you are their parent. But I will give some insight on:  If my family decided to allow cursing or not and why we made that decision  Reacting to your child's cursing and establishing rules about them   If you use curse words, does that automatically mean your child will have a sailor mouth too?  So if your kid has been known to throw out a $*#&$ or a !($*@& or you’re worried about them picking it up. Grab the Scripts to Manage the Top 10 Crazy-Making Behaviours: prnt.link/scripts Watch the video recording here: Join the Parenting Posse: prnt.link/group the Mudroom is recorded live every Wednesday at 1:30pm ET/ 12:30pm CT/ 10:30am PT on Facebook: facebook.com/arfamilyservices