amy

I love it when my oldest tells me “all the kids at school cuss” but she doesn’t. Does she think I was born yesterday?
I love the James Bond idea. That is very cool!

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ohmommy

Oh… I get it now…. what would James Bond do. You have said that before w/o explaining it.

OMG. I love it, it is brilliant. I am adopting it. I hope I can develop supernatural qualities such as those you have. You are one heck of a mother.

When I grow up I want to be just like you.

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Betsy Bird

“What would James Bond do?”…. why didn’t I think of that?!? Love it!

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Tammy

Love the James Bond move…I’ll have to give that one a try as I have a tween of my own who seems to be trying to push the boundaries a litte.

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Kori

I love the WWJD; too cool. Since my kids don’t know who he is, I don’t think it would work, though, LOL. As the mother of mostly boys, I relate-all I can do at this point is hope they don’t fart in church or swear at the cashier in the grocery store. Which, of course, mean I have to be a better example that I currently am. One of the BEST things? Having your kids truly believe that you have superpowers. We live in a small town. People tattle on my kids. My kids think I am like God, all knowing. It works.

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Kay

I remember that moment when I discovered my teenager cussed around his friends. Minor words. Really didn’t bother me when I realized he NEVER did it in front of me. I thought of it as respect. He still respects me and he is 20, though I wish I could say the same of me. I am a sailor though I have toned down the past few years.
It’s the whole do as I say not as I do theory I suppose, oh well it worked for me! :)

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Don Mills Diva

Damn and hell? That sounds positively sweet compared to what I have heard around the playground from VERY young kids…

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Tara R.

Told both my kids how I feel about swearing (that an intellegent person can wither someone with a well-chosen word, and not have to resort to cussing), and knew how they talked around their friends. They just better not swear in front of me – dangit!

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Kat

I just LOVE your website so much…you are like my long lost twin I never knew about…keep up the great material!

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jenny gardiner

Ha–I love the What Would James Bond Do? What a clever way to get kids to think about that.
I loved this post and will tell you I”m now in the next phase of this. I have teens, and amazingly my teens have been cuss-free as far as I know, despite my own guttermouth (I am totally a stress-cusser). But all of a sudden, my 16-y/o has decided that in chitchat conversation w/ me, she can use the language. And I find myself in a quandary–I don’t want to cut her off when she’s confiding in me, opening up when teens so rarely open up, but I also wouldn’t mind reminding her that she doesn’t have to emulate her dear old mom quite so handily…

Sandy (Momisodes)

Love how you said just enough to keep them on their toes from now on. Good call!

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Angie

This is so awesome. Since we live in what used to be a cornfield and not your wonderful, mountain-Y, wood-SY, ocean-Y Vancouver (I do SO LOVE Vancouver), I will have to get that eavesdropping spy kit to hear what my kids are up to.

KEEP BELIEVING

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Latte Mommy

Kudos. Perfectly handled, but I wouldn’t really expect less from you. Or James Bond, for that matter.

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andy

they have eaten my apple slices and drank my Gatorade and bowled on my Wii

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m mildy excited just reading that.

OK, yeah, it’s just me.

But you should know me by now.

Don’t make me break out the Harold Melvin (and, no, that’s not as dirty as it sounds either. OK, fine, it sounds dirty to me).

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Mas Younon

Nice way to bust them without humiliation, but I agree that they could have been using *much* more colorful words.

Not being a parental figure, I’m not going to advise what words to use or when to use them, but if you’re of the mind to teach them how to curse…might I suggest helping them tap into their pale Irish roots and have them watch “The Commitments.” 113 minutes long and the word, “fuck” is used 145 times. It’s all in the accent.

Or you could change philosophies to “What Would John(McClane) Do?” and then watch as they kill terrorists, spouting nifty one liners and the ever popular, “Yippie-ki-yay…”

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Leslie Dillinger

Well met, Mr. Lady. But you know they’re going to end up with potty mouths at some point with you and The Donor at the helm. I’m just sayin’;)

Nathan

Yanno, Hell, Damn, Crap, and Shit…and even Fuck…really aren’t as “hard” as they used to be.

Have we become a profane society?
Perhaps.

I think it more likely we have shifted our perceptions of what is unacceptable to say in front of children and ladies.

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cyndy

My son, my oldest child, is 15. He’s a freshman in high school this year. A couple of months ago, he casually asked me, “Mom, would you be mad if you found out that I curse around my friends?” To which I said, “I already know that you do.” He was shocked, wanted to know how I knew…….I just smiled. Sometimes Moms just know, ya know? I told him just don’t curse in front of me. I still don’t curse in front of my mom and I am 34. It’s a respect thing.

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Robina

Yea, that one’s a toughie. You handled it really well, though. All we can do is raise them right and hope they continue to act half-way decent when we aren’t around!

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Turtle

Question for Mr. Lady – do you cuss when your kids aren’t around? Ever? Because I bet you do… Back when I was a parent dealing with young kids (they were 7 and 9 when the came to live with me, probably not much older than that for this memory) we realized that we cuss a lot. Our social circle cusses CONSTANTLY. I know a child who thought my brother’s name was “Uncle Nate Fuckhead” when he was two because, seriously, that’s what everyone called him. So we had lots of conversations about the appropriateness of cussing. Things like what you don’t say in front of your grandmother (or mother). Everything we talked about was how *we* adults did it – yes we cuss, and we cuss more around certain people, and we never ever ever cuss in front of their grandmother. There was one incident which required a minor intervention and also a couple times when cussing was overused in our vicious UNO games, but that’s it. They both grew up knowing how and when to cuss. Just like adults.

Funny side story: shortly after the first cussing conversation, Loyal got the kids to some class late and the door was locked. He said, “See? This is a time when saying “shit” is appropriate.”

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Trish

You handled it brilliantly – *sigh* but how do you do it when they are almost 15yrs, bigger and stronger than you and they don’t care anymore if they say it in front of you.

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TRACI

Hey-hey you! You live next door to me or sumthin’? Your descrip of your deck and the unseen below camo’d by trees/woodland creatures and the such sounds eerily like my house…..do I know you?

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