How To Deal With Children Saying Bad Words

We cannot help it, sooner or later, they would learn the word F or in Filipino, the word P. It is everywhere. Even the movie that won Best Picture from the recent Metro Manila Film Festival is ambiguous with relation to the word P (agree?).

So how do we deal with it? What we should do when we suddenly hear our kids saying the F words or other words that are use for cursing?

I guess the best way to handle this is not to over react. Some parents when they hear their kids say words like that, reacts as if their kids did something terrible. Of course, those words should not come out of our kids mouth, but we do not know where and how they learned it or heard it. So, keep your reaction simple, ask your kid if they know the meaning of it and ask them where they heard it. You have to explain in e very polite way that those words are not for kid’s language. You know how some kids are really clever, they would question you why adults speak those word. And when they learned it from a playmate, that would be really tricky. It would be a bit hard to explain to them why their playmates are saying those words, so in this case, you just have to tell them the meaning of the word and why it is bad.

In every situation with our kids, the key is not to over react, of course except when you have to praise them or proud of them, in that case, be as OA as much as you want.