Firstly, i'm not a prude. I occasionally swear on front of ds. But today in the park I have never heard anything like it. There was a boy who was about the same size as my ds who is 3.9 but I guess he could have been older. He was surrounded by children of varying ages, no parents around except me (it was a campsite). The little boy was saying fuck, fucking and fuck you with every other word. Stuff like "it's not your fucking bike". Some of the other children thought it was funny and so were goading him into doing it all the more. He was very street wise. Anyway, I contemplated speaking to them about their language and then trying to find their parents and telling them. But ultimately I just picked up my ds after only 5 mins and left the park. It wasn't even the swearing that got to me but the age of the little boy and his apparent exposure to violent language. At one point he said "I'm going to get a hammer and crack your head in two". Where does a child so young hear that? Did I do the right thing by walking away, or should I have challenged it? What would you have done? We were really just bystanders, not at all involved. But part of me feels it was my responsibility to have stepped in somehow...
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Prolific swearing - what would you have done?
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LittleLionMansMummy · 18/08/2014 18:20
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