Adult language and conversation is for adults. Period. That said, I have adult children and they always are respectful in front of me. Rarely do I hear them cussing. Certainly, they do not cuss while talking to me. One of my boys has, on occasion, slipped when relating some frustration but immediately sees the look on my face and realizes what he did and apologizes.

My husband tends to have a bit of a potty-mouth and is now reaping what he has sown because our three year old announced, just yesterday, that he (my husband) is a dumb ass.

@TigersLovePepper@xanga - Bahaha... That's suck's but It just take's me back to that 70's show.

@MommyMarty22@xanga - Haha! me too! LOVE that show. The above is just my opinion and how I see things in as far as what is ok in my family. I have a very good friend who cusses like a sailor with her adult daughter. *shrug*

.With my luck, my daughter's first word will either be f or be s.  We both use it, in front of her and it's nothing.  They are just words and they mean nothing.  I learned who to keep my mouth shut in front of and who was ok.  That's what I'm going to try to teach my daughter.  Those words only are "bad" or "good' if you allow it.  I have been and will always be neutral. 

"Motherfucking fuck is just another fucking word. The idea a word is dirty is [to him] fucking absurd." Those are lyrics, but they express my feelings nicely.

I still haven't figured out who is the be-all and end-all authority on what constitutes 'foul' or 'adult' language. I really don't see an inherent problem with the word 'fuck' coming out of the mouths of babes. What does strike me as a problem in that scenario is that the kid hasn't been taught better alternatives.

I'm 19 and I rarely swear in front of my parents unless I'm extremely angry or frustrated. My mom just says I inherit it from her because when she's upset she slips the f word every so often.

This is going to be hard for me if I ever have a child because I don't believe in "bad words". I think that how you precieve them is what might make it "bad" but not the word itself. Ill probably just hold this rule to them because I don't need their teacher calling me about them cursing. But when they're maybe 12-13 or so Ill tell them that if they want to curse that there is a time and place for it. I started cursing when I was 12 but I was mature enough to know that you don't use it in front of small children, the elderly and at school. 

Personally, I would be embarrassed beyond belief if my toddler was saying "fuck and shit". Or bitch. I hear young kids say bitch and just shake my head.

Growing up, I was verbablly abused by my father. Words are not just words. In one sense they are, but they are given power, and not just by the one who is hearing it, but the one who is saying it. I don't want to teach my daughter that "words are just words". some words hurt and some words aren't meant to be said in a crowd of people, they are disrespectful. I cuss sometimes and I'm not proud of it. I don't do it in front of my daughter. And I try hard not to do it all any other time. I slip up, though. She may be the same way as she grows. When she becomes an adult, that's her choice.

I babysat for a couple kids, once. The mom told me to work with them on not cussing. I was to instruct them not to, if they did. But she would cuss in front of them and I jus thtought that was a poor example. Like, if you don't want your kid cussing, because they aren't allowed too in school, why not set an example when you're with them?

Ultimately, we can all teach our children whatever we want and if one is comfortable with letting their child talk like that, more power to them.

I was raised to feel that adult language is never OK, no matter how old you are. I cuss RARELY around my best friend and my siblings, but anyone else in my family is out of the question.

At nearly twenty years old, the only phrase my mother still fusses over is "jesuschrist!" We aren't even really religious, but it irks her from time to time. We talk day to day using "foul language". However, like a lot of people have expressed, I know not to curse around my grandparents or any older people, really, because they are often much more conservative. I always saw curse words as having different levels. Like beginner, intermediate, and advanced; poop, crap, and shit, respectfully. I made a conscious decision in advancing each time and sort of warming my parents up to the idea. I feel silly explaining this, but this is how I remember it happening.

They're just words. I mean, why is fuck so much worse than anything else? Because we've let it mean something that society deems "bad". I swore from a young age, but only around my friends and never around my teachers or parents. It doesn't make me a bad person to swear - I'm smart, well-educated and a good person. Saying "cuss" words doesn't make you a bad person, and it doesn't make you a bad parent just because your child swears either.

It's not fair to a child to let him use a potty mouth at any age simply because when he goes to school, if he uses it, he'll suffer consequences for behaviors his parents imposed on him.  I don't think bad language is good in any scenario, and I use myself as an example.  Many a time I've cussed, and then looking back, wished I hadn't.  I wish I hadn't been so permissive in allowing my children to swear, because as adults, it hasn't promoted their welfare in the working community.  If a child is taught to do something that will label him an outcast, it's a crying shame, and don't tell me it's other people's faults and not the parents.  Kids can and should be taught how to talk without using potty mouths.  It can be done.

My daughter is 7 and has recently started pointing out cuss words when she hears them. She doesn't say them and we have had talks about why those words are bad for her to say and when they are appropriate to say when she is older. I've told her that they are words that can make a person sound uneducated and that there are rare times when they are ok, like when you smash the crap out of your finger with a hammer.