Swearing

Does he hear it at home at all?

FionaS wrote: Does he hear it at home at all?

There maybe the odd time it has been said here, but he hasnt been around. I think he's gotten it from his old daycare.

Now to work out how to get it out of him.

I used to get soap or mustard on the tongue for swearing.
I suspect your not allowed to do that to your kids anymore.

Isn't it amazing how they can pick the one "Bad" word out of a conversation and repeat it. I figure it's because we emphasize those words so they stand out more.
My girls were the first children in DH's family and he has 4 younger brothers and they had real potty mouths even when I ask them not to swear around the girls, so my girls swore like troopers.
We would say to them "we don't use those words as they are not nice". Or "please don't say that word" anything along those lines and it did eventually work.

Funnily enough now all of my BIL's have kids they no longer swear

I was going to suggest what CaraMel said - a no-tolerance approach.

Seb started saying "oh sh*t" a couple of months ago. He heard his grandad say it once, and off he went... we basically had to ignore it till he stopped, as he's too young to discipline properly for something like that. He's slowly gone from saying it once every 20 seconds to maybe a couple of times a day at the most. (and I think it's blending with his other words - mainly "sat?" for what's this and "chat" for cat)

caitlynsmygirl wrote: My mum used to make us put soap in our mouths-so my brother and i ate a little soap each day and didn't mind the taste any more, she also wacked us with the wooden spoon until one day my brother turned around , grabbed it put it over his knee and snapped it in two, ahhh we thought it was so funny-til she got the spatula out sorry, off topic there!

LOL she'd get arrested for doing that these days.

Sorry I didn't read the rest of the posts but we are terrible swearers around here and Hannah is now the 'Swearing Police'

I just told her that they are words that people say when they are angry and that they shouldn't actually be used and are 'naughty' - and then I gave her a mandate to tell me off if she heard me swearing. Seems to prevent her from doing it for the most part! If I do catch her then she knows that she goes to time out straight away.

No suggesstions here, buatit has started very young in our house. I don't think Fay was one, i got cut up at a junction and said something like " Oh my goodness what a silly man", turned round to look at Fay and she was going "Ffffffff, ffffffff" at me and laughing at me in her "how clever am I" way.
Neil keeps saying it sounds like she is trying to say feck, wonder where she heard that

actually , that could be an idea-if you talk to him about bad words and then ask if he would like to be a "bad word policeman" or something and watch for when people use bad words it might make him more interested in not swearing.