BAD LANGUAGE
Almost every child uses naughty words sooner or later. It’s nothing to be alarmed about. On the contrary, I’d worry about it if my
child reached the age of seven
Or eight without ever having used bad language. I’d begin to think he didn't
Listen to people-perhaps not even to me. The marked lack of freedom of expressiveness
in his make-up would concern me still more.
Children are bound to hear things. The finest schools cannot
prevent it. I remember one woman who used to tell her boy, “You’re not at
school or in the park now, and when you’re home I expect you to speak our
language.” Although it’s not quite so bad as all that, there’s generally enough
to shock us occasionally. Typically
enough on these occasions, we hear ourselves questioning our child’s friends:
“How have these children been brought up it they talk like that?” actually the
answer is simple. With few exceptions,
they have been brought up pretty much like our own children. It’s easy for us to overlook the other side
of our own make-up and fail to notice the extent
To which we ourselves make a contribution along the same
lines. What happened the last time you
stubbed your toe and your innocent young hopeful was within earshot of you?
Also it’s grossly unrealistic to think of your child as being “corrupted” and
never doing a little “corrupting” on his own. The chances are he’ll pass the
epithets on to other children whether he picks them up from some of his
playmates or from you.
Although this begins to occur most commonly when our
children go to school, they may shock us with an even earlier development of
bad language. The fact that we are
visibly shocked frequently becomes the major reason for our children to use
these words again.
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