Family "no no" words

Hi Karen, ...kids are so smart to pick up things and with my kids being special it will be hard for me to make them realize how bad cursing is. we make sure that we never curse or say bad words in the house. BUT, the media is! sometimes i was surprised when my youngest son said--shut up. when i asked him where he heard or learned about it he told me that it's on a particular tv program. so, we need to be very careful in choosing the right one on tv for our kids. now he's aware of it and is not using the said words.

Hi Karen! It is really heartening to note that you would not use inappropriate or indecent words with your family members. We also try not to use such words and call name. While at home, calling name or abusing is strictly prohibited and we all refrain from it. have a nice day! Deepak

There were no restrictions put on words or anything else in my house when I was a child. I spent as little time as possible there and was hardly spoken to at all apart from being abused by my step father. However, in my home, with my five sons, there were restrictions. No swear word was ever used in our home, but like you, there were taboos. The one thing I would not tolerate above all others was "I can't". That was simply never allowed and my sons soon discovered they COULD do most things (good things) they tried. I am pleased to hear them using that same taboo with their children. Other taboos were extreme words like "hate" and derogatory words like stupid or idiot or unacceptable words like shut up - or bad grammar, which was always immediately corrected.

Good morning Karen, Raising my children 20 years apart they didn't have anyone to fuss on but me & that wasn't happening very ofter not where i could hear it anyway, lol. I had to watch my mouth [it's always been big & ugly words have always come out it, lol] more than i did my kids.

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, Well, I remember my first night with my hubby, I still recollect those golden words , what he said, "Under No circumstances, we should make use of any snage words/abuses etc, between both, it would be foundation for coming generations". Today when our youngest child (daughter), who is 34 yrs old, including both sons have never uttered any such pet words. We never encourage them, for that matter, we never brought any such reading materials to our house. I further, remember, when one of our grand-daughter uttered 'bloody', I straight away objected and asked my DIl, to remove her from that school, where chiildren learn those words and use at homes.I know it is bit touching, but it is parent's responsibility to moild children as they like. May God bless You and have a great time.

I was in hostel, so not everyone had the perfect environment, you know. :) So I learnt those words without their formal introduction at the right age. :) But I rarely use them. :)

Hi Karen, one word that springs to mind which probably sounds strange but it used to upset my mum when I said it, the word was 'sly' my mum used to tell me off for saying it when I would say 'you're sly' as in devious, cunning and abhorrent which I guess it was, I think with some words it's in the way they are said, the nuances and the meaning behind them and how they are worded vocally. I was always taught never to swear and also never to use any rude words pertaining to the body ;0)

Well my Ex Husband would use bad words in front of the Children which always got me angry I have to admit that I would slip up but only when I was really mad apart from that I do not like using them, it is not often I get mad but when I have had enough I have had enough I would not allow the bad words which I will not mention here lol If the Children argued among themselves as long as none of the Words would come up I would leave them to it

I don't recall having any specific taboos growing up, but no doubt I would have gotten in some sort of trouble if I had use the "f" word for example. My sister had a jar and every time anybody said a curse word, they would have to put a quarter in it. That's how she and my brother-in-law got control of the potty mouth in front of my nephew when he was growing up. My husband had to put a lid on exclaiming "Jesus Christ" when he got upset, my daughter was starting to repeat it. For my kids, if they say something I don't like, we just have a talk. They don't curse anyway, though we do hear the occasional shut up or I hate you.

Words of pain or insult added to cuss words were not allowed. I can't say whether that was good or bad, because these words were thought if not out loud. There were a lot of negative under currents, maybe it would have been better out in the open and quickly disbursed?

hi karen madam, it is good habit,in our home also no one spell even or bad words,but i found in some houses,children/parents are shouting with the other with words starting Bi,Ba etc etc,we never say that word to any body even not with the staff or servent maids,we do not have that mentality,have a nice day

Hi karen, no, not a single similar to those even uttered in my family. But when my mom got angry with me and ran to scold, she said kukur means dog. But not now. Thanks.

Hi Karen, It's a no-no at home to call the kids 'bad boy'(as in "you're bad" or "you're a bad boy") when they do something bad. I tell the kids what they did was not good, but never ever call them bad. I make it a point to call their attention for doing something that's unacceptable, but labeling (or calling them names) is something that is a family no-no.

Some of the terms that I don't like for our family to use are: Stupid, Dumb A** (this is one that my three year old has picked up from I don't know where.) Retard. Butt anything. Oh, and the newest one in our house is donkey head. My husband will call the kids donkeys when they aren't behaving (this came from Gordon Ramsey on Hell's Kitchen) and the other night my son decided to call my daughter a donkey head and it caused a lot of hurt feelings, so that is now a forbidden term in our home.

Funny to think about then and now. In my house and really, the homes of all of my friends, no cursing and no name calling. Being a child of the South, adults had to be formally addressed - "Yes Sir" "No Ma'am"; and we had better not forget to say "Please", "Thank you" , "May I" and "Excuse me." My! The times, they are a changing!

hi karen in our family we did not use stupid, retarded, lard butt, fatso, shut your mouth, as we were taught resp;ect and we , my hubby and I passed it on to my son. Even now he has learned that I dislike the term fu#k very much and will not use it around me at all. other than that word he has grown up not cussing and not using terms like fatso or retarded. We learned early about retarded as my little sister was born brain damaged and slightly retarded. we use respect and I learned to pass that on to my own family .Fatso was another one as I had to fight all my life with my weight, and those names are so hurtful.

When I was growing up I was of curse not allowed to curse and I didn't. I remember my cousins used to do it all the time and I would think it made them looks foolish more than cool but they were also always around those sort of words all the time so they almost came naturally to them. I do cuss but not that often so while my kids have heard a few cuss words I always tell them that they are not to cuss. I think the first time I ever said a cuss word was when I was about 15 and that was only because my cousin ended up slamming her front door right into the spine of my back and it hurt so bad and I called her a b#*ch. Certain words my kids are not allowed to say are the cuss words, retard, hate...the basic hurtful/cuss words.