Will you kids quit fucking around? Shut the fuck up!

[Guest]

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[Shakti_Dreamer]

I grew up with very gentle, soft-spoken parents who didn't curse much around me (save the occasional 'shit' or 'damn'). But, I grew up to be a prodigious cusser. Part of the appeal was doing what was forbidden. I was told not to do it, so I wanted to do it. Perhaps (and this is an optimistic hope on my part), children who grow up with parents who cuss a blue streak will not find the language appealing and thus avoid it?

 

[cloudy]

I grew up with very gentle, soft-spoken parents who didn't curse much around me (save the occasional 'shit' or 'damn'). But, I grew up to be a prodigious cusser. Part of the appeal was doing what was forbidden. I was told not to do it, so I wanted to do it. Perhaps (and this is an optimistic hope on my part), children who grow up with parents who cuss a blue streak will not find the language appealing and thus avoid it?

Pretty much, yeah....

I cuss like a sailor, and none of my children, even the adult ones, will even say "damn."

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Same here. I sort of learned to cuss in Boy Scouts and by the time I made Staff Sergeant has gotten seriously good at it. Today, of course, I have to keep a tight lid on my tongue but you know 6th graders, all I have to do is stop in the middle of a sentence and they know exactly what the next word would have been. Normally I will try to insert the phrase "military expletives deleted here" which brings giggles. Sometimes one or two of them will even use it.

My own kids don't seem to at all, at least in front of Dad.

 

[rgraham666]

It's not something I'd do deliberately in front of a child. I've done it inadvertently in front of my niece and nephews. I always apologize after.

Swearing is generally something I only do alone or in my writing. Courtesy, even to children, is important to me.

 

[oggbashan]

I think that one of the reasons for the use of "fuck" is that they haven't got sufficient vocabulary for anything else.

Of course the inhabitants of the Author's Hangout have a larger vocabulary than the norm and the ability to use it.

"Will you children stop behaving like Yahoos? Please abate your nuisance."

Og

PS. I liked the sign on one of London's small parks "Commit No Nuisance" - that covers everything from starting a war to walking on the grass.

 

[sr71plt]

Hmmm, the quandries I miss by never walking into a Wal-Mart.

 

[TxRad]

Little Johnny and his younger brother Timmy had been practicing cussing in their room for weeks.

One morning they agreed that it was time to take it to the next level. They both agreed to say at least one cuss word during breakfast.

At the dinning room table Mom asked Johnny what he wanted for breakfast.

"I want some God Damned Corn Flakes," Johnny said loudly.

The backhand his mom delivered rolled him completely across the room.

She turned to Timmy and asked, "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Anything but the fucking Corn Flakes," Timmy answered just before he too flew across the room.

 

[DesertPirate]

Little Johnny and his younger brother Timmy had been practicing cussing in their room for weeks.

One morning they agreed that it was time to take it to the next level. They both agreed to say at least one cuss word during breakfast.

At the dinning room table Mom asked Johnny what he wanted for breakfast.

"I want some God Damned Corn Flakes," Johnny said loudly.

The backhand his mom delivered rolled him completely across the room.

She turned to Timmy and asked, "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Anything but the fucking Corn Flakes," Timmy answered just before he too flew across the room.

That's what either of my folks would have done!

Of course my oldest daughter picked up Dads favorite- GD.

 

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[Boota]

I get more out of kids by speaking softly than their own parents get from yelling and screaming. My nieces and nephews learned that Uncle Boota only tells you once. And then there are consequences. I treat kids the same way I treated adults when I bounced in bars. You will never hear "Stop that" twice from me. I'm not cruel, but I will not take shit off of them. Consequently, they are all very well-behaved children.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I get more out of kids by speaking softly than their own parents get from yelling and screaming. My nieces and nephews learned that Uncle Boota only tells you once. And then there are consequences. I treat kids the same way I treated adults when I bounced in bars. You will never hear "Stop that" twice from me. I'm not cruel, but I will not take shit off of them. Consequently, they are all very well-behaved children.

(military expletive deleted here) straight! The students really don't like being called up the desk and spoken to very softly right in their faces. Don't generally have to do it more than once . . . over the course of a year!

 

[TxRad]

I get more out of kids by speaking softly than their own parents get from yelling and screaming. My nieces and nephews learned that Uncle Boota only tells you once. And then there are consequences. I treat kids the same way I treated adults when I bounced in bars. You will never hear "Stop that" twice from me. I'm not cruel, but I will not take shit off of them. Consequently, they are all very well-behaved children.

I agree, bouncing in bars is the perfect practice for raising kids. Been there, done that.

If that don't work then drinking in bars is sure to help.



ETA: In Texas, you can even take them to the bar with ya, if you're feeling mean.

 

[DesertPirate]

I agree, bouncing in bars is the perfect practice for raising kids. Been there, done that.

If that don't work then drinking in bars is sure to help.



ETA: In Texas, you can even take them to the bar with ya, if you're feeling mean.

Ah, just like the olden days
Went to a few with my Dad. He had booze I got coke.

 

[tickledkitty]

Don't you think that type of behavior is typical to Wal-Mart though? It seems like that store attracts a certain type of people.

 

[impressive]

"Uncle Boota" sounds kinda hot, actually.

 

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[cloudy]

"Uncle Boota" sounds kinda hot, actually.

 

[DesertPirate]

Don't you think that type of behavior is typical to Wal-Mart though? It seems like that store attracts a certain type of people.

You would think so but not always. In 85 when I worked there the owner of the local bank came in. I asked why he was there and he said he didn't get where he was by spending a nickle more than he had to.

He financed half of that town, mostly on handshake deals!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I'm - well, I'm stunned, really.

I just got back from Walmart. Didn't want to go to Walmart, especially on a busy Saturday, but I didn't really have a choice.

Anyway, while shopping I heard parents make those statements to their fairly young children. Loudly. More than once. More than five times. These were different families, too.

The crudity still causes a knee jerk reaction in me - I'm shocked and also disgusted.

This has happened before, of course, and it will again. I was glad our kids weren't with me today.

Of course the last time this happened our daughter said, "Hey, mom, it's okay. I hear it all the time in the halls at school."

I'll bet she does.

Do the words lose meaning over time with these parents and children so that it doesn't have the same impact?

It makes me uncomfortable.

How much of an effect does swearing or not swearing have on simple courtesy, I wonder? Is it the curse or the intent behind it?

I feel you on this, but to me, it's nothing.

Try hearing the n-word (or a relating ethnic slur) all your life as a casual "term of endearment," hoping you can escape it by gravitating to a better-thinking choice of area and people surrounding you, then inevitably getting sucked back into having to hear it everyday again thanks to the general fucked-up-ness of society. Some call it social entropy, others de-evolution...I calls it laziness that I don't wanna be around lest I feel my intelligence erode like crop soil under the weight of the rising Yangtze.

 

[TxRad]

What are you grinning for? All you want to do is rub his.... Uh.....




Belly.

 

[TE999]

My mother used to say swearing took the place of a good vocabulary.

My father had a few choice phrases when he injured himself, but in the main he uttered an occasional 'damn'.

Twelve weeks in boot camp and assigned training earned me a Ph. D. in obscenity, and it's always stayed with me.

But I never swear around children. They grow up too fast as it is.

 

[tickledkitty]

You would think so but not always. In 85 when I worked there the owner of the local bank came in. I asked why he was there and he said he didn't get where he was by spending a nickle more than he had to.

He financed half of that town!

I didn't say they were the only ones who shop there.

 

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[TxRad]

Naughty man!

Get thee behind me!

And then - um, stand really close.

You know me to well.

I've always liked the part that went over the fence last, best, so I'll stand real close.