When I asked my husband whether we should stop using ‘foul’ language in front of the kids, he laughed
Photograph: Emmanuel LATTES/AlamyPhotograph: Emmanuel LATTES/Alamy“Should I care if my children use swear words?”
It wasn’t until I was pregnant that my husband and I had our first conversation about swearing and kids. I asked, with great trepidation, whether we were going to attempt to stop swearing in front of the kids. He laughed, assuring me that it was an absolute impossibility – that I, in particular, would not be able to stop in any scenario. In fact, there is a large pillow in my living room that says, “I tried to stop swearing but I cunt”, bought for me by my mother.
These two influences definitely combined to give me the potty mouth I have now and my realisation that stopping would be nigh on impossible. Where I was in situations where I couldn’t openly swear, I fell back on the Cantonese swear words I heard growing up in Hong Kong that allowed me to adequately acquit frustration . Ultimately, I decided that with my children, I would deploy the tactic my own mother took with me.
“We have inside-the-house words and out-of-the-house words,” she said, trying to keep a straight face.
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