He's 6. It's awkward.
Any suggestions?
We've tried grounding him, taking toys away, spanking...
I guess the only thing we haven't tried is NOT cursing ourselves.
Hmmmmmmm...
Rasta
Tell him he is such a douchebag when he calls people douchebag.
I think you should actually purchase a douche and educate him on the uses of it.
Originally posted by: Your Mom I think you should actually purchase a douche and educate him on the uses of it.
OMG you are absolutely right.
The End.
the more you act like it's a big deal, the more importance you give it
just ignore him, he'll get tired of it
bait and switch .... makeup another nonsensical word, and pretend to let it slip, when he hears you say it, get mad at him, etc
Teach him something worse so he switches to that instead of douchebag. Cuntnozzle is a good one. Though if you got your wife to explain doucheing to him I bet he'd stop.
Or you could just punch him when he does it.
If you're worried about douchebag... I'd refrain from letting him join the ranks of 12S: The Next Generation.
he's just pointing out who the affiliate marketers are for you. 
my parents had a talk with me about swearing when i was about his age. that there are certain words that are ok to say at home, but sometimes other people get upset when they hear them. they were just super honest with me and that seemed to work. :shrug:
My very first word was fuck.
I'm pretty sure that's going to be my last word.
Have your wife demonstrate the use of the douche bag. At 6 it will scar him for life.
Originally posted by: arigato My very first word was fuck.
interesting...
i think our family talk happened sometime around the time i stood up in the booth in a chinese restaurant and announced with a big smile that mommy is a bitch.
Good thoughts, people.
Wendy and I are really trying to tone down our language. We think that will help...
We also are working hard not to bust out laughing when he curses like a drunken sailor. Something about a cute 6 year old with a lisp saying "What a fuckbag" is funnier than hell.
Rasta
family talk at 6 years old when I called my mum a twat.
We had the swearing talk when ours was just 4. Here wee friend at daycare told her to "never say fuck and shit because those are very bad words". About a month after the talk she was having troubles getting her mittens on, and said "fucking mittens!". Steph & I were impressed that she actually swore correctly, most little kids are comically bad at being foulmouthed.
Just substitute "Degenerate" for "Douche" in your daily talk from now on, even go out of your way to use it around him every so often.
While on the subject, some of my most favorite douche variations: Douche Nozzle Douche Locker Douche Le Bag Douche Dangler Douche Box Douche Diver
Rasta
[edit - wow holyfuckingshit, I can't believe I forgot Douche Dongle. I use that probably more than any other euphemism in the history of euphemisms these days]
I say let them swear actually.
The censorship they'll encounter on network TV will become that much more entertaining.
"You mean to tell me this massive fluker wants to come and rob US? Forget him! I'll tell that piece of spit to shove his massive freaking guns right up his behind! That stupid son of a bird!"
Ice Hole!
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Originally posted by: The_Spectre I say let them swear actually.
Remy doesn't get in trouble for swearing so long as she swears in an appropriate manner and only in front of appropriate people. Kids are going to swear, may as well teach them how to do it properly. Makes a hell of a lot more sense than grounding (6 y/o WTF?) or hitting them.
My first word was cookie. I was morbidly obese.
I'm surprised at how good I am at not swearing in front of the kids -- much better than Mrs S.
Anyways, we had a talk with Emily (then 7) a while back after I overheard her about to reel off to Ben (then 5) a list of 'bad words' she'd been taught by one of her friends. Just explained that there were words that weren't appropriate in certain situations -- like school -- and that Ben probably wasn't old enough to know what was and was not an appropriate situation so it was better that he shouldn't learn the words just yet.
A couple of days ago Ben came up to me and said "Is 'bugger' a bad word?". This suggests to me that at six he's probably now old enough to know what is and is not appropriate language.
I didn't realise "bugger" was a bad word until I moved to England. In my family, it was what my mom would say instead of "bastard".
As in:
"Hey, get your pudgy mitts out of that cookie jar, ya tubby bugger!"
That's a good list if variations. Wendy's current favorite is "Class 4 full-roaming douchebag"
And when I say grounding I mean, like, we take the TV away for a couple days.
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