Originally Posted by
jackal2
I know where you're coming from, but let's be honest with ourselves, as soon as your kids get old enough to talk and go to school, it's only a matter of time before they hear similar language in the school yard and out and about in the community. In an ideal world nobody would ever swear, but the perfect world doesn't exist, and in may ways you need to be in touch with the real world, with all its faults, in order to grow up and function in society.
Plus, kids are born with a sense of adventure and love any sort of naughtiness. They are programmed to misbehave to a certain degree to test boundaries and develop their own personality. I bet there are very few people who at some point in their childhood won't have found it very amusing to look up 'naughty' words in the dictionary!
In fact, I've always wondered whether we encourage profanity by reacting to it. People often use it to exclaim or express strong emotions, and they do so because they've learned from a young age that certain words have the capacity to shock or get a reaction. If nobody ever attributed such values to these words, I suspect they would eventually get used no more frequently than any other.
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