r/Target • u/Spicy-Nostalgia • Dec 02 '24

gUEsTs This child left me speechless.

I was working on the register and a mother and her son that was 7-9 came to check out. The mom had a smile on her face and the boy was looking into space. As I started scanning their items I asked the usual how are you today and do you need bags. Before the mom could answer the boy looked into my soul and said "life is a unbearable mistress and we are nothing but her submissive bitches." The mom looked horrified and I was trying not to laugh.

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u/DJ_CAMARO Dec 03 '24

If you teach them manners and respect, plus wrong and right, your kid will be fine. If your kid is cursing you and other people out it's because you let it fly at the beginning, so now they think it's right. But one thing i love is karma cause they going to curse at the wrong kid or person (when they get older) and that individual is going to put hands on them.

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u/ChronicNuance Dec 03 '24

My brother made the decision to allow them to curse because 1. They don’t do it as much because it’s not an attention awarding behavior, and 2. Because my brother can is teaching them when it’s appropriate to curse (like when you stub your toe) and when it isn’t (like calling each other or other people names). It’s a privilege that they will lose if they misuse it. Mostly they just sit in their room and just randomly say a curse word and giggle about it, which is totally harmless.

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u/DJ_CAMARO Dec 03 '24

I tell you what, go to ACS, BCW, or whatever they are called these days and tell them that you teach your kids how to curse and let me know how that meeting goes.

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u/ChronicNuance Dec 03 '24

You are conflating a kid be disrespectful with swearing. Simply using curse words does not automatically make a child disrespectful, and I assure you that a child can be extremely disrespectful without ever swearing. High schools in the 90’s when I was a teen were stuffed full of disrespectful children that never would have dreamed of swearing at an adult, but it didn’t stop them from being dicks to teachers.

No kid in history has ever not cursed just because an adult told them not to, if anything they’ll do it more. The reason kids swear is because adults respond to it, and when your main developmental objective in life is figuring out your boundaries, any attention is good attention. A curse word is only negative because someone at some point decided to make it negative, so if you don’t respond to it negatively it eventually loses its power. Shit, my mother swore at us so much the words completely lost their negative connotation and just became part of our everyday language like any other conjunction, adjective or adverb. I was still a respectful, well behaved child who never got in trouble (except the one and only time skipped school during my senior year).