Back when Dweezil was a toddler, he was very good at picking up vocabulary and using it appropriately. So we were forced to make a very concerted effort to retrain ourselves.
One day, I was carrying something upstairs, and it was precariously perched on a pile of other stuff I was carrying, and I sorta knew it was doing to fall. When it did, I restrained myself and managed to keep it to “golly” or something like that.
Dweezil, very helpfully, chimed in with “Gah Damit”. :smack::o
My wife & I tend to use different curse words, so we know who gets the blame when one of the boys repeats something.
When mini-Pope #1 was about 2 1/2 he was sitting in the corner trying to put do a puzzle and, with ever mounting frustration, I heard “Dammit, bastard thing” - so that one was mine.
My wife is German (we life in Germany) and I am American. I speak English with the kids and she speaks German with the kids. It is always obvious where the kids get their cuss words…
When our daughter was about three, my wife was asking her the names of various things in English. That is, my wife would ask (in German) my daughter to say the English word for some common things in the house. When they got to our cat, my wife says (in German) “And what is katze in English?” to which my daughter replied “Stupid hairball.” With a perfect american accent.
Famous Bill Cosby routine - he thought his name was “Jeeeeee-zus Christ!” because every time his father saw him he’d yell that. “My brother Russell thought his name was Dammit!”.
One day his father saw him, yelled “Dammit, get over here!”. “No dad, I’m Jesus Christ”.
Since we moved to Vancouver this last year we have become consumers of public transportation. My son wanted to pull the bell on the bus, so I told him I would tell him when we could ring the bell.
A block and a half from our stop I said “Ding it”
M looks at me. “Ding it!”
Another stare, and a glancing around. “Ding the bell!”
“Oh. I Didnt know you meant for me to pull the cord! I thought you were pretend swearing!”
:dubious: :smack:
“Ding it!” has now entered our family lexicon.
I kinda got annoyed with that commercial about the drill sargeant therapist who calls his patient a “jackwagon”. It’s one of those words that sounds kinda like a dirty word but isn’t really anything. But my nephew picked it up, probably because his father found that commercial funny. So he’d go around repeating that line from the commercial. sigh Not horrible, just tiring.
I was shocked, appalled, and thrilled to hear my then-two-year-old son sigh, shake his head, and mutter “Shit…” when he made a mistake (in his opinion) coloring his coloring book.
Idiomatic, semantically-correct use of a conditional interjection? At the age of two! What a kid!
(On reflection, it turns out that this particular style of swearing is more his mother’s… particularly the sigh and head-shaking.)
Probably with a you in front of it: “You whore!” Mommy was into medieval costuming. Regular sewing machines aren’t really made to handle some costuming needs.
My darling three-year-old daughter, playing with her Fisher Price cars on the living room floor. Talking to herself, pretending to be the drivers, “Go, you asshole. Get going, you moron.”
Daddy worked nights then, and he tended to be an impatient driver when there were other cars on the road.
My neighbors some years back had their four year old in Sunday school at a Southern Baptist church, she got up mid class to go to the drinking fountain, teacher asked where she was headed. The reply was “going out back for a smoke and a beer”
My son, at age three, when asked by his mother where I was, replied, “He’s on the damn couch.” Perfect inflection, and everything. I didn’t stay on the couch long after that…
My daughter, when she was in 2nd grade at a parochial school, was called in for saying, “Move your butt out of my way.” We were called in, too. They told us they would prefer that she didn’t use the word, “butt.” I said, “Well, it’s a shortened form of the proper word, ‘buttocks’ - would you prefer she’d used a vulgarity like, ‘ass’ instead?” The looks on their faces were priceless.
Thanks to the bad influence of a couple of my friends, I went from not swearing at all to being quite vulgar in a very short span of time, culminating with the time when one of those said friends screwed me over and I left a profanity-filled “fuck off” message on his answering machine.
His mother called my uncle, who was babysitting me at the time, and replayed the entire message for him. Oops.
I was much older than preschool, though. Say, age ten or so.
I have a three year old who quite often whips out the “Jesus Christ!” when something doesn’t go his way - though his father has tried to limit the damage somewhat by insisting it’s “cheese and rice!”
And one of the teachers at daycare was furious with my two year old, darling girl who would say “whatever” with exactly the right intonation, in exactly the right circumstances. What was even funnier was when the teacher “tattled” to the head of the daycare (seriously, who does that?) the head was like “oh yeah - she’s been doing that since she was 15 months old” Snicker. Bad Daddy.
When my daughter was about a year and a half old she had a babysitter who was an older, overweight, and somewhat arthritic Portuguese woman. Once, when my daughter plopped down on the floor to play with some toys at home, she gave a big sigh and said “Ay! Jesus!” with a perfect Portuguese accent. (Zhe-zoosh!)
Once when my niece was about three, she was showing me her little plastic people, and held up two of them together, exclaiming “look, the man kiss the other man’s ass!” She’d been listening to her dad way too much.
When I was in college, I was at a professor’s house and I tried to say something about a cute figurine “sitting on a shelf” but it came out of my mouth “shitting on itself”. His two young toddler daughters were standing right there and heard me say it. I decided to pretend the whole thing never happened.
My niece (let’s call her) Laurie, at approximately four years of age, was an adorable little child with red ringlets and a dimpled grin. Her equally adorable sister (um) Shelly, was a year younger, and the family had two new dachshund puppies.
Things were a little hectic as my sister was wrangling with bath time. Both kids had been taken out of the tub and dried off, but then Shelly had a little “accident”. One of the puppies running around the bathroom had also had an “accident” and it finally got to be a bit much for my sister. She was kneeling, tending to Shelly, and quietly began to cry. Laurie patted her on the back and said, ever so solicitously, “That’s okay Momma, you’re having a bad fuckin’ day.”
About thirty years ago I was at a friend’s house. His two year old daughter looked out the window to see Ms Hook parking my truck out front. She pointed and informed her father, “SandyHook’s fuck.”
My friend, who’s only been known to use damn, or bullshit a couple of times in the thirty-five years I’ve know him, was a little embarrassed and quickly informed me that they were working on her t’s.
I pointed out that she could have been pointing at Ms Hook.
My friend, who’s always been extremely supportive of his children, jumped on that and said, “Good, Ann, that’s very good.”