Everyone thinks it so hilarious to hear a two year old swear... they don't realize what problems they are creating by laughing at it. Then the child goes to pre-school and getting in trouble for saying things that their parents allow at home.

Are you going to accidentally say something you hope they don't hear... yes.

Should you laugh when they repeat it (because they will).... No.

You should say "Mommy/Daddy was wrong for saying that and it is a bad word."

I have accidentally said things in front of my nieces that they have repeated. We laughed about it after she was asleep that night but I corrected her when she said it.

I'm glad to see a parent concerned about what they say in front of their children. We usually use 'snap.'  I've also heard it from the high school kids I've worked with so atleast they're trying to clean it up too.

when my daughter was a toddler, i definitely had to clean up my language. but it was enevetable that she would repeat something she heard &  when she did,  i put a small drop of hot sauce in her mouth as punishment. and i swear to you, i only ever had to do that ONCE. i felt it was more humane than soap but equally as effective.

but as she got older we slid back into our old ways. we've made it clear that there are some 'grownup words' that are NOT ok for kids to repeat & she's really good about it.

honestly, i really don't care if she swears if it's an expression of frustraton, but i know that i can't condone it at home because if she gets in the habit of it & swears at school, she'll get in trouble. i really don't see what the big deal is with cussing anyway. there are FAR worse things that kids are exposed to these days.

My hubby says 'fffffk' as a sub for the actual f**k.  While I wish he'd just cut it out altogether, I cut him some slack because he really does just scatter them all over without thought.  If he's substituting anything at all for the actual word, at least it means he's taking a second to think before he speaks.  

a friend of mine puts one of those cheap rubberbands on her wrist and everytime she says a dirty word she pops herself with it.  she said it worked.

-_- I would never imagine myself to clean my language up of those words. Those are every day use words. Now, "curse" words. The ones they bleep out on the TV for some reason are the ones that I need to work on. But even those I don't think I will worry too much about.

I'm not a sailor. I do get a little bit of a dirty mouth when I am out with friends, but thank goodness that is the only time I get really bad with my language. Me and my husbnad are watching what we say. Now we have to get our roommate to watch it as well & with playing his music. My son does say "dangit" but I don't see a big deal about that -- in my opinion there are a lot worse things he could be saying, so I will allow that. Plus he doesn't say it too often. At first I had no idea what he was saying until I did something and said it -- haha. It was amusing, but I didn't laugh at him.

I am going to have to watch what music I listen to -- that is what I have been cleaning up! I love music and listen to it when we are in the car and I sing with it, so my son does to. He sings to a few different songs already and he isn't even two (will be in December). But a lot of my music has words on it that he shouldn't be saying. One word I don't like is the "n" word -- the word used for African American people at times. I listen to rap and I don't have man songs they use that word, but our roommate he does. He was playing it while my son was running around watching Popeye and I just gave him an evil eye and told him to cut that off. Haha.

I spend much too much time around kids to swear, so I never do.  Even around my friends, I watch what I say, because once it becomes a habit, it's hard to break.

I've gotten in the strange habbit of saying "poop" instead of "sh*t" or "crap".  But now my 20 month old says "poop" in response to dropping a toy or whatnot.  And while it's definately better than the alternative, I'm still annoyed with myself for getting him saying Poop in an derrogatory form.  Oh well, I guess when he starts potty training, we can redirect that word.

I used to say sh*t a lot around my son and he picked that up when he was about 2. But I worked on not saying it so he's since stopped. Two words that I need to work on now that he's 3 are damn and frickin'. He uses those in context so I know that's all me. My hubby will occasionally drop the f-bomb but thankfully Brandon has not picked that one up.