Don't you hate it when you walk down the street with your family and people openly swear loudly in front of the children? Have you ever asked people not to do so?
2006-10-02 23:27:33 · 37 answers · asked by True Blue Brit 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
FakinFal - It's called respect for others. Maybe if we practised a little more self control we wouldn't offend. And yes, children should be taught not to swear. There's enough dirty mouths in the world. The world doens't belong to yobboes.
2006-10-02 23:45:25 · update #1
Not only in front of the children, in front of my elderly mother !
Its simply not acceptable, and I am sure its illegal!
But I have on several occasions turned and asked them to MODERATE their language,
But not always received co operation.
Its a sad reflection on their good education wasted on such low use of vocabulary - and the so called ladies are often far worse then the man in many cases!
It makes me feel quite sad and ashamed to be part of their society.
2006-10-07 09:09:25 · answer #1 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there are people who just swear as part of their every day life and are perhaps not even aware that they are doing it. Also I think that they were in turn brought up with swearing parents.
I have asked some teenagers in the park to stop swearing in front of my children, actually they weren't that much older than my children at the time, but anyway it didn't do any good!!
We have a swear box at home, although it's usually when I am in the car, apparently, at awful drivers . . . . . . . . '****'!!!
2006-10-02 23:39:05 · answer #2 · answered by LUCY D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My experience has been (to date) that the Southern Irish are pretty bad when it comes to 'swearing in front of their children.'
To hear a 4 year old running around swearing, hitting others (children and adults) without being corrected, it's so ugly as to be obscene in its entirety.
Sash.
2006-10-07 00:30:27 · answer #3 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swearing has lost most of its meaning, for example
C@CK is not offensive (In my eyes at least)
And F@CK has developed into a WHOLE NEW MEANING
See the link. Not great to hear Kids OR adults swearing 'For the sake of it' But if a kid (7years) walks into a door and says
F@ck or b@llox, im not to bothered. C*nt however is still right out, and swearing 'Chav Like' at someone is also a sign of low intelligence....
2006-10-02 23:39:23 · answer #4 · answered by Banderes 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Children can't be kept in a bubble. They're going to be exposed to the words eventually. It won't hurt their little ears to hear swears. It's up to the parent(s) to teach the kids about the words and that they're not suitable for kids to use.
I grew up with two brothers 10 and 12 years older than me and all their friends were around. I didn't swear until I was ~11 or so, despite knowing all the words by the age of 6 or 7. It all depends on the parenting. Other people aren't going to baby your children. Why should they have to modify their behavior because you can't teach your kids not to cuss?
2006-10-02 23:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by fakingfallacy 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
My partner has always swore infront of his kids which I haven't really approved of. They are 10 & 6 and I have never ever heard them swear themselves & they know it's not a good thing to do - it's about respect on their part for their elders & that's why they don't do it.
2006-10-02 23:51:17 · answer #6 · answered by Cori 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My five year old son came home from school and told me that a lad in his class had said as naughty word (that is what they call a swear word in class) and then whispered it to me, he then asked me why he couldn't say it so i told him that he had to be 16 and have had to have left school before he could it. No i havn't probably because i'm usually minding my own business and i think that swear words are part of everyday life, as most of the words are now in the dictionary.
2006-10-02 23:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by layla 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I hear it alot. Maybe that is why I also hear alot of children swearing. I think they just do it without thinking. It is the way they are brought up. I don't swear myself it makes me sick to see kids as young as 8, girls as well as boys usuing terrrible language. I did ask one person whom I knew not to do it but I was just ignored. What can you do?
2006-10-02 23:32:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My children were brought up in Switzerland. When their father was working in India, I took my children to England, so I could go and visit him. Since the school holidays don't coincide, they were allowed to go to school with their cousins. After four weeks they were swearing like troopers, and the school they went to was in a 'good' catchment area.
Their Uncle didn't swear, in fact he was 'holier than thou' on the subject, but it didn't stop him referring to the family cat as 'Cooking Fat.' Kids aren't stupid.
2006-10-07 00:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More to the point, why do children swear in front of others. Never had to ask them not to. They are going to learn it somehaw anyway. Might as well be sooner rather then later.
2006-10-02 23:41:18 · answer #10 · answered by gr_bateman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋