My daughter drops the F bomb like it’s hot at home, but she hasn’t blurted it out freely at her school. Yet.
My 4-year-old daughter June ran up to me at preschool pickup and immediately burst into tears. Apparently, she had strung together a sentence for the first time that was incendiary enough to warrant an intervention from her teacher. She mumble-cried for a hot second and then spit it out. “Mommy, I said my brother has a stinky butt and he needs to go in a toilet. Mrs. Jenkins won’t let me use bathroom words at school,” she wailed.
We’ve taught them that not every conversation warrants a curse word, and that some people get grossed out by the potty experience being explained to them. Especially when a meal is being eaten. Which is why my daughter sporadically drops the F bomb like it’s hot inside of our house, but she hasn’t blurted it out freely at her school. Yet.
for having the curiosity to say those words in a new environment. Because – spoiler alert! – I don’t mind if my kids screw up and innocently say something they’re not supposed to out in public.Let me be clear – I’m not encouraging my daughter to go around being a free and open bigot, hurling offensive language at anyone whenever she pleases. And I don’t just sit back and relax when she acts out or does something disrespectful to another person.
At the end of the day, I’m not here to solely raise a socially acceptable kid. I know that this statement goes against the grain of traditional parenting, and that’s A-OK with me. I would never want my family to blindly follow traditions simply because that’s what’s been done for generations, anyway. I’ve had enough conversations and lived experience with my own parents to know that
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