Comments on: Washing Mouths Out With Soap

By: Claudine M Jalajas

Claudine M Jalajas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:07:12 +0000

It’s a struggle for me on a constant basis. Here I am trying to keep it clean and my kids are the ones dragging it out of me. Why just the other morning I growled between clenched teeth and tight lips, “fuck!” I looked at the time.. it was only 6:30am. I use it as a sort of barometer on how the day will go. Clearly the f-bomb at 6:30am did not bode well for a happy blissful day.

By: marc aronson

marc aronson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:36:08 +0000

Our kids survived, their main concern is with annoying each other, the foibles of adults pass by like clouds.

By: M A

M A — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:00:08 +0000

LOL! My family is full of swearing women. When my youngest sister had a child she swore whe’d clean up her foul language. She is a manger of an office & after she failed to acquire a coveted contract, her staff let everyone from the office go home early because they knew she would be on the rampage (not AFTER anyone, but just pissed & verbalizing it!). She knew she’d failed with her young daughter when she heard the child say, “shit-a-godamn” just like my mom… We can’t help ourselves. Sometimes these are the only words that will convey exactly how you feel…

By: Anne Gibert

Anne Gibert — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Words are so powerful. It’s really hard to teach the subtlety of when the use of such words is permissable. But kids will hear them, if not from their parents, from somewhere. And there are a lot of things worse than saying fuck. What I really hate, on esthetic grounds, is the use of fuckin’ as a universal adjective.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:27:03 +0000

Poochie sounds kind of sweet, Cindy.

Steve, I assume you suggested your daughter wash her hands with soap after the game.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:57:05 +0000

I notice that you deviated from the urge to f**k up the quote from Jamie!

My thoroughly modern daughter and I made a pact at a Texas-OU game to avoid curses because of the young souls around us. We had great seats, close to the field, and my green-eyed, curly-haired, blonde, gorgeous daughter was undoubtedly picked out by the network cameraman rolling back and forth directly in front of us. On the way home, after a miserable defeat to OU, we complimented each other on our self-control. Then she confessed. “But you know, Papa, there may have been some really shocked deaf people at home watching.” Fluent in American Sign Language, she had been silently cursing throughout the game.

By: Cindy A

Cindy A — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:19:25 +0000

My father curses quite professionally. My son spent summers at the grandparents when he was little. Almost every fall, I would get a call from his teacher about the use of expletives. One teacher complained about the F word and also wanted to know what “poochie” meant. I told her that my father actually did make a flawed attempt at cleaning up his language in front of the grandkids. Poochie was his slang for son of a bitch.

By: Marina

Marina — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:06:50 +0000

smile.

By: ruthpennebaker

ruthpennebaker — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:20:26 +0000

Oh, dear. Think our kids skipped over that stage to the hard core.

By: Joyce Saenz Harris

Joyce Saenz Harris — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:06:30 +0000

In the car the other night, granddaughter Isabella (not quite 6) informed us that she would no longer say “the f-word” because she knew we didn’t like hearing it. We were relieved to discover that she thinks “the f-word” is “fart.”