What will you do if you hear your child saying cursing words to someone?????????

I have the same problem with my son. I try to watch what I say around him and granted there are times, when I get upset or something happens I will curse. Though, when he is at his grandparents, his uncles are really bad at cursing, then his aunt and uncle in law will say the N..word and I cannot stand that one and myself will NOT say it. I will catch him say it and get very angry with him and his aunt/uncle. It is hard to teach them right from wrong, when others around them will say it. I let him know I do not like it and that it is not nice or polite to say. Then he gets words off the bus also with the high school students. With the N word....I will tap his mouth, that is one word, I don't like him saying at all and do not like him to repeat. Others he will know when i hear him say them and see me look at him and will stop. If i keep hearing, I will take things away, he will have to sit, he won't go to grandmas for the day, etc...

well mines not old enough to be cursing yet he hasn't gotten past exited squeals and allot of mmmming but i imagine that i would do something along the lines of time outs or removing dessert from the menu for the day if he was cursing hopefully i can manage to watch my mouth and he wont learn them from me O.o

I believe in dealing with children with honesty and I don’t like to use physical punishment either. I have explained to my daughter that parents are not perfect and we too make mistakes and by admitting my mistakes I am hopefully teaching her to do the same. In regards to swearing, of course our daughter has been taught that it is not acceptable to use certain words and that it is extremely rude to do so and with us being human we have let the odd nasty word out; I explained to her that it was wrong of us and that we are sorry for being so rude. In regards to punishment, fortunately we don’t need to punish our child very often as we are very lucky; I find that time out or removing things that are precious to her works much better than smacking.

Well to say from my experience the kids of these days don't like to be ill-treated (scolded or beaten up) so the only way is to explain them the consequences in a manner they can digest and accept. If I were to see my child(or any other kid) cursing words to someone I would tell him that the words he used are bad and would cause an ill feeling in the heart of the person. I would also tell him how bad it would be if some one were to curse him with the same words he used.

I will let my son know that such words are not acceptable and I let him know he can be punushed for using such words. Also I will make sure I don't use such words because that is where he oicked it from

My children are 24 and 15 now SO for them to swear in front of me or at someone and I hear it. I still to this day would never hit them but It is called the bottle of dish soap. They are way to old at this stage of life and know right from wrong. Now when they were little they were always pulled to the side spoken to and made to apologize to the person they said the swear word to. It just seemed to make everyone feel better. Knowing the boys were being taught right from wrong and that there were consequences for foul language. The consequence may have been minor but it was effective.

I do not have a child right now, but really its' difficult to imagine of my reaction, in case my child or my younger sis use such words. I will be angry and might slap her.

Definitely this is a horrible situation for anyone to notice children speaking cursing words... actually children learn most of the things from parents and elders.. hence we are indirectly responsible for that also..but we shall see that such situations doesnt arise due to us and we should convince them in such a way that they shall not repeat again!

I dont curse and swear so I would most definitely ask where he or she learned those words. i'd explain what the words mean (if I can) and why they shouldn't be used. Children usually learn such thing because of their playmates (or other people for that matter) and when one hear someone say something like that, sometimes he/she just want to imitate whoever said it. When you ask them what the meanings of those words are, chances are they dont know and that they just feel like using those words.

They don't understand what they are saying and how is gonna leave impression for others. In this matters i believe that elders are responsible. I have seen children using bad words, never hesitate to speak up of dirty words and cursing to thier friends around. If i observe how, why children did these, i assume that parents are the root cause for them.

well,my son is going on two years of age,he is curious about everthing incloude spoken language.He often copy me and his mother's way of speaking.his mother often said "oh my God" he did it after his mother,though he didn't understand the words. we are ever happy when my son say some words ,when my son saying cursing words,we diverted his attention,After a while he forget to say what he said.It is goog way to get out of a bad habit of speaking cursing words.

If I heard my child say a curse word to anyone or at anytime I would definitely spank them as they know better. If you raise your children right (and not swear as their parent - or you have NO room to punish them), then they know right from wrong and when they chose to do wring anyway, they need to be punished or they will not learn. I would never "beat" my child, but spanking does happen. It is not to hurt them, but to associate wrong with punishment. I do not swear and if I did and my child said a swear word, then I would obviously not be able to punish them as I have set a bad example.

I agree with you that We can't blame them for learning bad things from the environment. I have the same trouble of you. My daughter was in the primary school from September, oneday when I heard a cursing words from her mouth, I was shocked. you know, she never said that, and I don't know where she catch those words, I think it must learned from her new classmate. recently, I watch a TV program, there is a father, whenever his daughter saying some bad words, he will get back a piece of pocket money from her daughter, which he have given to her. I think it is a very good way. I will do like that latter.

You are the parent. Its your job to make them understand no matter how frustrating. You are the adult. Every time you give in and let them get away with something they will win. And you will have just a little more of a spoiled brat.

We should instill religious knowledge to our kids from young so they become God fearing and that will make them behave politely in words or actions. As far as possible I avoid saying any curse words in front of my kids.

Sometimes kids hear words and when everyone laughs, they start to repeat them to be cool. Ask them what the words they are saying mean and if they know what they are saying.Explain just what they are doing. Of course, if you are cursing, it is understood where they are hearing it from.

Well nothing since they are both over 18 :) But when they were young of course they said curse words. They heard them sometimes from me, a lot of times from other kids. I would always just try to reinforce that those words are really not acceptable in public and that they often show that you are not smart enough to choose better words. I would even use myself as an example and say that when I cursed I wasn't using my brain to choose better words. Did it work? Well neither of them curse very much - it's pretty few and far between so maybe.

Processing of thinking is very important. maybe we as parents can start with that. i usually talk to my daughter if she says anything bad or not pleasant. i would then ask her what she meant by what she said, and if she understood the meaning of it. then i give the moral implication of her words according to her level of understanding. it works. let us clarify things with our children, hitting will not stop them, but helping them discern their words can.

i have no child,so i have no experience like this,but i know who say cursing words is not impolite.for children it's good time to form good habit.so parents must be attention to teach them.

In my experience with children swearing I have found the best way to deal with them is to get down to thier level and kindly say to them 'This kind of language is not really a good way to get noticed.' I only said this one time to them and if they repeated the offense I would ignore it totally. You have already told them it isn't a good idea and by backing it up by NOT giving them any attention whatsoever when they swear, it re-afirms your opinion about ways to get noticed.