Language, adults, language.

[becca_radcgg]

This is another instance of children shocking the hell out of me.

Note: This post does include very, very strong language, but I wanted leave an accurate description of what occured.

How do we make swearing un-cool?So I’m a teacher-on-call right now, which is just a fancy Canadian way of saying substitute teacher, which is really a sob story

Comments

[badboy_fangirl]

Well, unfortunately, you cannot police the world, right? If only. What a great topic, Becca.

I know in Europe the "c" word is not considered so offensive. It's definitely our North American-ness that makes us cringe a bit more. I recently watched the film American Beauty and Mena Suvari's character yells that word at another girl at school, and on the commentary, the director, Sam Mendes, who is British, was laughing about the fact that Americans get so riled up about that word in particular

[becca_radcgg]

I think because we think it's so extreme, it's even more shocking. I mean, I probably would have actually had a harsher reaction if he'd said "fuck" or "shit" or something else, but "c***" was just SO UNEXPECTED to me.

It really got me thinking about women and girls who call each other bitches, sluts and whores. I mean, I'm guity of doing it myself. And it just saddens me so much that this has become practice. Kids younger and younger are thinking that this is "cool" all because adults do it, or Mean Girls or whatever.

I think you're right. You can only start with yourself, right? Examples are really important. And leading by them is hard and necessary at the same time.

LOL at your nephew. What did you say to him?

[badboy_fangirl]

I honestly don't remember what was said--probably just that it was a bad word he didn't need to repeat, oh, and DID YOU SAY THAT AT CHURCH, DID YA, DID YA?

LOL. I really don't remember. The shocking part is what I do I remember.

*iz old*