When I play video games I curse A LOT. I didn't really think it was a problem until now. My daughter is learning things so fast, I'm always gaming around her and I don't want her to learn one of the words. My sister and her boyfriend are the same way, when my nephew was one he was walking around saying "B*tch". Don't really want to do threw that.
So I was wondering if you guys have any tips to help me learn to stop cursing so much?
Maybe even some new words I could switch? I rather have my daughter hear me say fart nugget then mother f*cker, haha.
But no joke, it's a seriously problem I have. If anyone could give some advice that would be awesome.
Well the first fucking thing you have to realize is that these words are only goddamn words and no shit-for-brains moral douchebag should be titty-sucking deciding your titty-sucking vocabulary, and fuck all the motherfuckers who think that they should control peoples' shit-eating language.
...cock.
But in all seriousness, I'm not really sure how you should go about it. I mean, really, they are only words, and while they're certainly more refined words to use in daily conversation, I can't really see much problem with it beyond her getting in trouble at school or something. Really, I dunno what you should do because I'm ok with it
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Last edited by Adrian Ţepeş; December 21st, 2012 at 09:11 PM.
The best thing I can think of is have someone tell you when you let something slip. If you have someone bitching at you for it every time you do it, it is so much easier to stop doing it than it would be if you were on your own with it... :/
Damn I said 'it' a lot in that sentence.
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Last edited by Ryojin; December 21st, 2012 at 09:31 PM.
Keep yourself calm, is all I can really suggest. I used to swear a lot, and I used to get really mad at games (comes with being so competitive), but I found I was far less fun to be around when I was like that, so I spent a couple of months away from people, and found myself much calmer when I started really playing games again.
It was sort of a rehabilitation, and I think it's actually made me a better gamer. Much more inept, quicker to learn things if I can see my mistakes and try to not repeat them, rather than getting mad.
Applies the same way as not wanting your child to learn those words.
Well, there's always the alternative: Explain to your daughter that these are words you don't use in polite conversation. Don't let her curse in normal conversation, and don't let yourself curse in normal conversation either. But at the same time, don't let it be taboo. After all, they're only words. My parents never swore much around me, and they didn't like me swearing, but I turned out with a pretty decent potty mouth either way, and I know people who raised in households with a lot of swearing and they didn't turn out to be morally-inept mass-murderers, so... :shrug: I mean, she's going to hear them at some point anyway.
Don't swear around your daughter, using words like fudge instead of fuck, sugar instead of shit, carp instead of crap, things like that. Or just use totally random noises of frustration
or;
Don't play video games around your daughter, wait until she is in another room, or asleep or whatever; at least not until you know how not to swear at a video game.
Swear words are constructed sounds that our culture has arbitrarily decided are offensive for no real reason.
Video games are graphic depictions of extreme violence and gore, often paired with other undesirable behaviour.
People have unusual priorities. They have no trouble exposing their children to gratuitous violence, but God forbid they should get the slightest whiff of a naughty word or a nipple.
If I were you I'd rethink what you should be concerned about exposing your child to. I would never dream of letting my nephew see some of the video games I play, and thus pause them accordingly if he comes anywhere near.
As for your prolific swearing - well, sometimes you *have* to swear. One of the first things I learned when my nephew started hanging around like a bad smell is that when you smack your toe into a door, you *are* going to drop an F-bomb whether you want to or not. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
Simply train yourself to change the warhead payload, instead of trying to stop it from being deployed at all - fudge instead of fuck, for example.
Of course, once the child starts going to school you're not fooling anybody with this approach, least of all the child - they will know and probably use more swear words than you do the instant they reach the playground. But for some reason adults like to keep up the pretence anyway, mostly for their own benefit.
Reward yourself with something small, like a sweet, whenever you manage to stop yourself from swearing, punish yourself with something small, like losing a bit of money whenever you swear. Make sure to pair the punishment's/rewards immediately with the behaviour you want to do away with - otherwise it doesn't make much difference.
You might also want to try thinking yourself into the role of someone who wouldn't say those sorts of things, so you don't have the pattern of response hooked up to how you're thinking at the time.
If you're trying to make the response something different, you could try tapping your toes inside your shoes or something like that. Give yourself something else to focus on. That's something I do when someone's being a bit annoying and I don't want to be short with them.
Fuck that shit, lil' lass ought to learn how to be a viking!!
But no, really... Try substituting your swear words: If you're gonna say "shit" say "shoe instead", or "fudge" instead of "fuck", something like that... Has KINDA worked for me.
My daughter is learning things so fast, I'm always gaming around her and I don't want her to learn one of the words.
You know, eventually she'll go through a phase (teenage years) where she'll likely be swearing more than you ever thought possible (even though we've all probably been there at some point, we wouldn't admit it was that bad).
I think swearing, or rather, the use of swear words has recently been intertwined with culture. It used to be that they were used in means to offend, but it seems they're common place nowadays.
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But no joke, it's a seriously problem I have. If anyone could give some advice that would be awesome.
Short of all the suggestions that people have already submitted, just swear Battlestar Galactica style. They used the work 'Frack' instead of 'Fuck'.
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