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- Nairn2
It only struck me yesterday how counter-intuitive it is to call my daughter a 'crazy bastard' when she started scooping water out of the bog.
- I'd lost track of her for like 10 seconds - literally. Straight into the bathroom, and apparently into the toilet. Little fucker.
It's a small flat.Nairn - Also - must stop swearing in front of childNairn
- My son is 2.5 this week. He said “what the fuck?” And meant it.monospaced
- I let my kids swear in front of me from a very early age. They weren’t allowed to swear in front of anyone else, just me. We talked about what the words meant..Morning_star
- ...and how offensive they can be, but when it was us we were swearwolves. It worked, they’re 15 & 17 and very rarely swear.Morning_star
- I like that methodology, M_s - it's kind of the tack I figured I'd take. Swear words are good for expression, so shouldn't be damned.Nairn
- That said, if she gets kicked out of school for 'Speaking French' I'm on the first train up to Brum to kick your ass!Nairn
- It’s hard to explain that concept this young but maybe soon he will understand. He knows it’s wrong because of the reactions he refeiv s from adults.monospaced
- So right now the strategy is to not react at all. Don’t even entertain it. It works.monospaced
- Oh yeah - even prior to my own kid, I was a big believer in "don't react!". Especially when kids fall down, etc. Kids react to adult emotions.Nairn
- So true Nairn. Be the adult you want your kids to be.
If you do find yourself on the way up here let’s go axe throwing instead to settle it.Morning_star - https://www.myabando… ?Nairn
- https://whistlepunks…Morning_star
- I'd lost track of her for like 10 seconds - literally. Straight into the bathroom, and apparently into the toilet. Little fucker.