Cussing...

[newmomma8]

Ok, so I cuss like a sailor around trusted friends. I know to respect certain people and areas, so I clearly don't walk around spouting out cuss words. But here's my short story of where I'm going with this.

So I was traveling the 1.5 hours with T alone to LA to visit my parents last weekend when an 18-wheeler turned on it's blinker and started moving over in my lane. So obviously he had plenty of time to move over, I was just slightly aggravated that I may get stuck behind him for a while. So without thinking, I say "ahhh shit", not in a mean tone or even loud, just very casual and in almost a tired voice. 

I swear, it took around 5 Mississippi's before I hear, "siiiiitttttt" through a pappy in T's mouth.

YEP!  I'm teaching my kid to say SHIT!  And to follow up MOTY award over here, I said "crap" at the house when we got home Sunday and she decided that would be a fun word to repeat too.

So obviously I am changing my non-kid, sailor cussing ways now and trying to find alternate words to express myself.  LOL

Anyone else going through anything similar?  Or am I the only bad Momma here with a dirty mouth???

[zandeela]

I also cuss like a sailor. yesterday DD pointed at my boob and said titty. I almost died laughing when I figured out I was wearing a print scrub top with dogs and cats on it. she had pointed to one of the cats which happens to be on my boob . no real cuss words here but her vocabulary is not that large yet, only about 8-9 words.

[newmomma8]

That's too cute zandeela. I always ask T where the baby is and she points to my boob first, then my belly. But yeah, she talks a lot and is now repeating a lot.

[fishbulb]

We are working hard on not cussing around J now that he has entered the parroting phase. So far the worst he has repeated is butt.

My dad told me that when I was about this age I was stacking some blocks and when they fell over I looked at him and said, "oh shit Dad". He said his first reaction was to be proud I used it correctly.

[RandomName]

I try really hard to sensor myself but sometimes there isn't anything better than a well placed fuck or shit or whatever it may be. DD hasn't imitated a cuss yet but I bet it's not far off.

[fish8412]

Hahaha. LO has become a parrot within the past month or so. My husband and I are both trying really hard not to swear. We are doing fairly well, but every now and then we say shit. Need to replace that with shoot or something.

[nattybumppo]

I still cuss far too often and somehow DD1 (who is 3.5!) has not really picked up any of it!??!! (And she is highly verbal. I don't know how I've gotten away with it.) She has parroted a couple times. This was when she wasn't even 2 and we were cut off in a parking lot and I said "Thanks, asshole" or something like that, and little DD1 from her rear facing carseat mutters "asshole". OMG! I died!

More recently she used "crap" when we saw a loaded up pick up truck. Something along the lines of "there's a lot of crap in that truck." Realized I need to curb my use of that word, too.

DD2, I have no doubt, will be muttering profanities early and often. Need to curb myself with this one.

[angelsnight]

MH and I are still cussing as much as ever, but LO still has a limited vocabulary. I guess we should start editing what we say but I figure why give it up till we have to? Swearing just feels so fucking good sometimes, haha. Tho lately LO has been saying what sounds like oooh siit. I don't recall saying oh shit a lot (but really who knows) and maybe that's not even what she is trying to say but still. I've got a bad potty mouth. Which is funny because we would get yelled at for even saying fart in a gross way as kids.

When I used to ask my dad how come he was allowed to swear but we couldnt, he said because of you start now, you'll be really bad by the time you're my age. I can remember not even saying fuck for a really long time (i always felt bad saying it, haha) but now I have the worst potty mouth ever.

[ellabee]

I'm good at not swearing. DH is not. His family is terrible. He's also the first one to call his family out on it, but then do it accidentally 5 minutes later.

E has started to imitate a few words, so I'm more conscious about it now than ever. Yesterday I said "whoa", and E parroted it right back to me. I was immediately like, oh boy here we go!

[nattybumppo]

Jul 24, 2015 10:22:18 GMT -5 ellabee said:

I'm good at not swearing. DH is not. His family is terrible. He's also the first one to call his family out on it, but then do it accidentally 5 minutes later.

E has started to imitate a few words, so I'm more conscious about it now than ever. Yesterday I said "whoa", and E parroted it right back to me. I was immediately like, oh boy here we go!

*MY* family is terrible!!  Or more specifically, my mom!  My mom lets out an "oh shit" or "god damn it" or "oh fuck" or something else whenever she gets even slightly flustered (which can be a lot for my mom).  I mean, I haven't curbed my cussing completely, so when others let out an occasional cuss word out around my kids, I'm whatever about it, but when we were at my parents a few weeks ago, my mom's was so much that I finally was like "Mom....children."

As I said, DD1 seems impervious to the cuss words, but DD2 is a little sponge and repeats everything. She'll be cussing up a storm pretty soon if I don't watch my language...