The best way I've found, is treating it like they've made up a word, or what they should have said was "blast off" so when he says it just say, "You mean blast off" or if they drop the F bomb I would say "Oh did you see a duck? Where is the duck?" or "Oh I love trucks, what colour is the truck?" I swear it works.
When my DD dropped the F bomb after hearing a friend of mine say 'for f*** sake' I tried everything to get her to stop, but honestly the only thing that worked was time. After about a week she forgot all about it.
A few yrs ago when we visited my grandma she thought she heard DS say *UNT to his cousin....i am pretty sure he didn't as we don't use that type of word but i still had to reasure old gran!
Then a couple of weeks ago i had a teacher ring me from the school cause he called someone a *ITCH in the playground, he got in alot of trouble at school over it and when i questioned why he said it he replied "they really annoyed me", i had to be serious but just felt like laughing at the same time....no idea where he heard that one from!
haha my little brother is a good one for this - he's 9 now, but he has been doing this since he could talk - He only uses really bad words sometimes but he is always saying "fricken hell" "bloody Hell" "holy crap" ahhh doesn't seem so bad until you notice he really doesn't care who he says it to or who he says it around! He will quite loudly proclaim - "fricken hell you bloody idiot" to people anytime anywhere (he has aspergers so it kinda explains him not getting when things are inappropriate). He only drops the F & S etc Bombs when he's really cranky. We always catch him muttering it under his breath when he gets in trouble or he has to do something he doesn't wanna do. We all just try and ignore it (unless its funny of course).
Just a reminder to everyone that this thread is in the Gentle Parenting forum. Posting advice that is not in line with gentle parenting techniques will be removed and the poster infracted.
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