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Lookie at what *I* get to take to the Psychologists tomorrow...
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 484007" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I do think the nice teacher is perhaps being a bit naive. Little boys use swear (cuss) words - not within adult earshot, unless they don't understand not to. Carson is blurting out what he has obviously heard at school. Incidentally, I do myself find it an unattractive thing when kids "tell" on other kids and are encouraged to do so (unless it's something serious of course). I doubt that anyone is going to be psychologically scarred for life by being called a jackass... However, it's obviously not doing Carson much good. </p><p>I also have this problem with my son - he has always been attracted by these words and they were the first things he picked up in the playground when we came to France. Nothing he says has the weight or seriousness of the f word, the c word or the b word because he hasn't heard those anywhere yet... One thing I have done - and I don't know if it is too late to start with Carson - is to teach him a relatively innocuous word - "Damn!" - saying it is a swear word. So he can use it thinking it has this special power of the taboo but actually it does not...</p><p>I hope others will have some good suggestions as to how you might tackle this. Again, I don't know how volitional all this is - there just seems to be something about ADHD children being drawn to these words...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 484007, member: 11227"] I do think the nice teacher is perhaps being a bit naive. Little boys use swear (cuss) words - not within adult earshot, unless they don't understand not to. Carson is blurting out what he has obviously heard at school. Incidentally, I do myself find it an unattractive thing when kids "tell" on other kids and are encouraged to do so (unless it's something serious of course). I doubt that anyone is going to be psychologically scarred for life by being called a jackass... However, it's obviously not doing Carson much good. I also have this problem with my son - he has always been attracted by these words and they were the first things he picked up in the playground when we came to France. Nothing he says has the weight or seriousness of the f word, the c word or the b word because he hasn't heard those anywhere yet... One thing I have done - and I don't know if it is too late to start with Carson - is to teach him a relatively innocuous word - "Damn!" - saying it is a swear word. So he can use it thinking it has this special power of the taboo but actually it does not... I hope others will have some good suggestions as to how you might tackle this. Again, I don't know how volitional all this is - there just seems to be something about ADHD children being drawn to these words... [/QUOTE]
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