Whats a good age to start cursing?

I'm in the NEVER camp. My dad always said that people who curse lack the intelligence and creativity to come up with alternatives. I'm not saying that I never curse, but I teach kids who "can't help it" because it just "slips out," and that gets them into a lot of trouble.

When your old enough to defend yourself!

My father told me that curse words are for when you are so mad you just don't have anything else to say. I asked how I would know when I was old enough to swear? He said "when you've gotten old enough to figure out how to not get caught doing it." He was right.

Why start?... Great arguments are lost that way...being eloquent is better

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Never

Ideally, my children will never cuss. Realistically, at 15 if I hear "****" on occasion I will give a disapproving look and move on. The f bomb is not okay until they are out of my house and then only if they watch who they say it in front of. I don't think cussing is ever a good thing but I do it, so I can't be mad at my kids when they eventually do it.

2-3, as it's adorable. And as Cool Aunt Amber, I get to be the teacher :drinker:

I disagree, I do not think it's adorable at all. When I hear a small child cuss, I think that child must have some lousy parents.

I work around pre-teens (ages 11-14) and I believe they should know when it's appropriate. Most wind up being penalized for cussing in front of adults. Teens have a lack of proper censoring, and that's definitely something that needs to be taken into consideration when allowing kids to swear. Swearing's just dirty, why should we be letting immature minds access immature words? We should be teaching children how to properly express themselves without using poor vocabulary.

2-3, as it's adorable. And as Cool Aunt Amber, I get to be the teacher :drinker:

I disagree, I do not think it's adorable at all. When I hear a small child cuss, I think that child must have some lousy parents.

My rule by 8 was don't cuss in front of grandma, I also watched rated R movies. I understood the concept of context and how to use it. Glad to know my parents were such failures :huh:

I get it that some people don't like cussing, raise your kids how you like, but seriously, there are worse things a kid could be learning than a few controversial words.

ETA: The vocabulary argument annoys me as well, I had a better vocabulary in 3rd grade than most college students (mostly because I was going to my parents law school courses with them). My vocab has probably gone down significantly since then, but cussing had nothing to do with it.