Stop Your Kids from Cursing

Profanity is not a new thing. It has become more common but it is not new. Children who curse need to learn to direct their anger in a more healthy direction than through an outburst of angry complaints and curses. This comes through gaining self control. Here are some steps to help your child find success in this area of the tongue. The Bible refers to the tongue saying that if you can control you tongue you are a perfect man. Teaching and training your child to control their tongue is an essential part of teaching them to succeed. Success will be easy for the one who was trained as a child to behave maturely and with self control.

Step One:
Remove profanity from your child's ears.
This is not the all in one solution however, this is needed as a step one. Check the child's music. Check their friends...check emails...look for an avenue that profanity is entering into your child's life. If you are cursing, stop. If you find that a teacher is cursing, report them. If you find that the music they are listening to has curse words, remove it.

Step Two:
Teach your child not to use curse words. Explain why they are bad words. You don't have to break down the meaning of the words however explain in as much detail as possible that that word is vulgar. One example is a young boy one day called a girl a whore. Now, where did he hear this word? You would automatically like to assume that his father called his mother that or that he knows what he is saying. He may not even know exactly what it means but he heard it while flipping through the channels on Jerry Springer. If you teach your child not to call names when he/she is angry then it will deal with the most Innocent name calling such as dummy and the most extreme such as fag. You can not spend to much time training. Let watching TV together be a good time to train. Stop the show or explain: thats a rude way to behave or thats poor language. Help your child begin to develop a consciousness of poor speech and excellent speech. Take the time to teach them.

Step Three:
Reward good behavior. Pay attention to days that your child controls his or her tongue and comment on it and give small rewards. Congratulate him or her on quick changes in their attitude and anger control.
Discipline poor behavior such as name calling, cursing and angry outbursts. Let your child know ahead of time that outbursts result in no TV that night, or no sweets for two days. Pick a discipline that wont exasperate and frustrate but that will be uncomfortable enough to be remembered.

Be patient. Your child is being developed and trained. He or she is not finished yet..they are in a process of development. Do not let other's anger at your child cause you to be angry. Just patiently, one day at a time teach and train until the cursing and name calling and grumbling are a thing of his and her past.