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Tell them that their kids watch porn and swear like a drunken sailor and you don’t want your kids doing that.
I found a treasure trove of penthouse when I was 11. I wanted to be mature and do the right thing. So...I grabbed the telephone and I called all of my friends and told them.
What’s with the overuse of the word ‘sibling’?
Are we going to ignore “newphews”?
I can't answer your main question, but have to comment about how dangerous of an attitude this is.
Replace "academically smart" with anything else and it's still a problem.
Additionally, replace the swearing with anything else, whether it's more or less deplorable, and it's still teaching a dangerous lesson.
Be honest, it is your brother or sister.
I still don't swear in front of my parents, always feel bad when I let one fly by mistake. I understand some people are closer with their folks I guess but to me it feels like crossing a line.
I think you're gonna be hard pressed to keep a lid on it nowdays, attitudes about it have definitely changed with the new generation.
I think you're gonna be hard pressed to keep a lid on it nowdays, attitudes about it have definitely changed with the new generation.
I actually heard way more swearing from my parents, their friends, and family when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. I feel like a lot of it was derived from the military.
My dad would fix the mower, smoke a few heaters, and it was like he was back on the submarine.
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I swore all the time when I was in middle and high school. I think it’s part of the coming of age experience. Now I talk to my kids about appropriate swearing. It seems to work in that they don’t swear around adults.
Those oldphews are the ones to be concerned about.
My dad swore like a sailor around me. I swore all the time as a little kid, although I knew better than to do it around adults or my dad would beat my ass. I hardly ever swear around my kids, parents, or other adults I don't know very well. I've never heard my kids swear. Not sure where I'm going with all this other than to share my history of swearing. In conclusion, I'll finish with one of my favorite lines from a movie, because it reminds me of my old man:
In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that, as far as we know, still hangs in space over lake Michigan to this day.
In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that, as far as we know, still hangs in space over lake Michigan to this day.
OP's avatars over the years have featured half naked women, but it's his sibling's kids he needs to worry about influencing his young, impressionable children.