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My kids developed a British accent due to Peppa Pig. They called popsicles “ice lollies” for years which was adorably hilarious.
Although admittedly, “ice lolly” is probably more correct as Popsicle was a brand name and is the equivalent of using “Kleenex” in place of “tissue”. Actually, maybe now I will start using ice lolly…
No lollygagging, only ice lollying
I tried to not swear when my son was born, but that lasted about 3 days. After that, I always spoke freely in front of him.
Today, he's 27, and NEVER swears. He just doesn't do it, never did. His friends don't swear much either. They all saw it as another unseemly thing that older people do.
You give me hope
Okay, that's great (I guess)
But I'm not worried about my 27 year old swearing. I'm worried about my five year old doing it
Her kids are in their 30s.
It's the only kids show I'll watch without the kids.
Come on. Phineas and Ferb is money. I've seen more episodes without the kids than with.
Not a show we get in my country but I bet it's good. 🙂
I keep sleeping on it, like some kind of dumbass. 😖
Never too late!
I was curious when I learned people considered it to be really well done, and it really is.
I’ve only watched a few episodes, but it is good. I’d look up some sort of “best episodes” list and hit a few you find interesting.
Camping.
Gets me every time.
Almost every single episode is worth watching IMO. There's a little something in every episode. ⭐
You need to watch more OG Muppets then.
But also Bluey is good. Maybe not all the fucking merchandise though.
I don't need more shows to watch, honestly. I vault have time and energy to watch my one show that I'm currently trying to finish. 😅
I hear you, the good thing about OG muppets is it was more like a late night variety show, so there’s no real plot from week to week. You can just watch whichever week has a guest you like.
Yeah that's all good and all, I just don't want to get hooked on more stuff. 😅
My niece had a barking phase from watching too much paw patrol...
That's pretty normal for every kid
For real life?
Doesn't say curse words
Found out what Yiffing is
Definitely, there are trade offs
That's just a place mark. Wait'll they get older...
The funniest part is that sexual lobster is one of the animators for bluey lmao
So it’s okay to swear as long as you use words that you find acceptable yourself only?
"mom!!!Brother biscuited himself"
"daddy, are you biscuit - faced again? You were supposed to drive me to my school play tonight!"
You leave my gravy habit out of this
You will roux the day you asked that
Are there people that find the phrase "oh biscuits" to be unacceptable?
Like, what do you even mean?
The kid is still communicating the exact same intent when they say biscuits vs shit. They are just making a different sound. Isn't it the intent that should matter?
I think there's a component where the words matter and the intent/inflection/tone matter and that combination can be used as a whole.
Also, the desire to comment to the world when things happen is pretty human.
"That was unpleasant and hurt" when you smack your thumb with a hammer could come out as a variety of things, such as: "fuck!", "ow!", "Jesus Christ!", "yikes!", "damn!", "aaaiiiee!", etc. Are these ALL swearing, or does the word matter? I would say it does, but we may disagree.
But I think the intent is the most important component for me. If my kid says "fuck" after smacking his thumb, that's not going to bother me. I'll ask him to code-switch around me and use something else, but I fully expect that his friends are cursing all the time. The code-switching is the lesson, not the word.
If he says "fuck you" to someone, that's a different scenario and the words are actively hostile. It doesn't really matter what the words are, if the goal is to hurt someone verbally, then it needs to be reasonable and sometimes it can be. Telling a bully to "fuck off" won't bother me, telling a teacher to "please depart from this facility" would. Some of the best disses in history were made without swear words, but were devastating because of it. Be eloquent.
The grey area for me come in when the 'swear' is an adjective. I try to coach my kids to not do this, but it sometimes happens in my speech, and I don't bother with it in text when I can assume my readers are old enough to code switch: "These legos are fucking stuck together" is not acceptable, nor is "these legos are frikkin stuck together", but "these legos are really stuck together" is. Sometimes, though, you need the extra emphasis a swear word gives you.
My kids read the good books, so sometimes they'll pull a swear out of a novel. Brian Sanderson has a whole pile that my oldest will sometimes use. I find it charming when he yells "Storm it!" when I tell him to go brush his teeth. Maybe that's just me.
Why is not okay to swear in any way? The Christian thing doesn't even have backup for anything but saying the lords name in vain.
Wackadoo!