Joined: Jun 2011
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all words can hurt
11/5/2018 at 11:03 AM
I'm with acidbasement - I'm more concerned with how words are used than what the words are. I don't want to hear any words meant to hurt coming from anyone, least of all my kids. Sometimes hurtful language can be specific words, like racist or homophobic slurs. But I don't see that words labeled as "swear" words are i:ncluded as a matter of course in that list of exclusions.
The discussions we have in our house around the use of profanity are mostly that other people don't necessarily agree with our approach, and that if my kids can't tell whether it's an environment appropriate for those words, they should hold it back.
There's a world of difference between using the word s**t to say "your cooking smells like s**t" and "you might not want to get in the car yet, I'm pretty sure you just stepped in dog s**t". Teaching kids that swear words are the main thing to be careful of in their language use misses the goal of teaching our children to be careful with language in multiple contexts.