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ilzolende:

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eversolewd:

adultprivilege:

What the fuck is this shit? How can you swear around your kids and expect them not to?

I was excited about this article for a second because we raise my kiddo in an open language household and I’d hoped this was a article in support.
I clearly have too much faith.

1) If you’re gonna teach your kids to swear, they’re gonna swear. Put up with it.*

2) Why would you explicitly mention your kids aren’t allowed to use the toaster? Anyone old enough to physically reach a toaster is probably intelligent enough to understand bread in–>lever down–>wait–>toast happens. No?

*actually my mom taught me how to swear in live 7th grade, but I didn’t start doing it until mid-high school. Whatever, I had problems. I’ve been making up for lost time since.

What’s with this fucking sumptuary-law-esque bullshit?

one of the true benefits of adulthood is being totally free to say whatever the eff I want, whenever I want, without getting grounded. Boom! Soft benefits, baby!

And you can also give this benefit to your kids! Shouldn’t everyone get to have nice things?

But while I am on board with showing them the ropes as they grow up, they are not grown-ups yet, and until further notice, it is “do as I say and not as I do.” So they are not allowed to swear; nor are they allowed to drive, use the toaster, cross the road alone, or drink watermelon martinis.

Driving isn’t a privilege, it’s a duty. Kids who think they want to drive usually want to play racing games and crash their cars into everything. Also, eating food and drinking beverages in front of kids that they can’t have is pretty rude, IMO.

I need to give true voice to my feelings

And so do I. If someone forgets about your existence at a conference daycare center long enough that it’s time for you to sleep and so you have to make a fake bed out of chairs and towels, or refuses to let you see the test results that you spent your entire Saturday generating, or says that you have to get an extremely painful vaccine, you are somewhat justified in swearing, regardless of age.

At the altar of motherhood, I have already sacrificed sleeping, sanity, perky boobs, my knowledge of popular music, career opportunities, manicured nails, all of our money, fashion, an understanding of current events, the energy to complete even a TV marathon, slim-fit jeans—I could go on. Must I also give up my communication style and my preferred mode of self-expression?

Things your kids probably not only don’t have but never voluntary chose to not have: Control over their sleep cycles (assuming you set bedtimes), breasts, getting to choose what music they want to listen to (if you don’t let them swear, I assume you don’t let them listen to rap, for one), capacity to be legally employed, permission to get their nails done (maybe they do, but how would you have time to get it for them if you can’t do it for yourself), significant amounts of money, access to arbitrary styles of clothes, permission to do a TV marathon, etc. So surely they’re as entitled to swear as you are, yes?

Oh, it’s the NRx school of parenting: “I’m stronger so I make the rules, suck it up weaklings for thou hastn’t gudgitten and overthrown me”

Although my money is on these people later writing entitled thinkpieces on how kids these days don’t sacrifice arbitrarily for their parents and it’s such a terrible thing that they couldn’t manufacture myrmidons that would satisfy every single one of their whims as a debt for existing.