{"id":108397,"date":"2020-12-30T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.oviahealth.com\/guide\/108397\/repeat-after-me-or-on-second-thought-dont-teach-your-children-well-but-maybe-not-to-swear-just-yet\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:52:05","slug":"repeat-after-me-or-on-second-thought-dont-teach-your-children-well-but-maybe-not-to-swear-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/108397\/repeat-after-me-or-on-second-thought-dont-teach-your-children-well-but-maybe-not-to-swear-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat after me, or on second thought, don\u2019t: Teach your children well, but maybe not to swear just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-author\">\n<div class=\"content-author__wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-author__image\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/30350\/article_108395_headshot_Matt-Osgood.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Osgood\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__name content-author__name--guest\">Matt Osgood<span class=\"content-author__title\">Contributing writer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat the hell are you teaching our daughter?\u201d wrote my wife via text message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m a journalist who has covered everything from sports to politics to beer, each more fervent than the next with regard to the opinions and partisanship that surround it. Just by virtue of engaging with these topics, I believe I\u2019ve become a more informed person. As such, I couldn\u2019t wait to get a blank slate of a child so that I could download my entire catalog of information into his or her brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise then that my daughters criticism of the current presidential administration had a familiar slant and delivery. It was, essentially, my take parroted in her voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the great joys is watching your children become like you. They deliver sentences in your cadence. They use phrases used around the house. They hear interactions and, unable to contextualize them, use them on their own in whatever format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And so imagine, again, my lack of surprise when my then-two-year-old daughter asked one day while driving if we were in \u201cf&#8212;ing traffic.\u201d Or when my two-year old son was playing at his grandparents house and caught uttering \u201cWhat the f&#8212;\u201d to his dump trucks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to cursing, I actually don\u2019t have much use for it. Curse words beginning in A-, B-, and Sh- are pretty much devoid from my conversation, but I do use the F-word, mainly for its versatility. (I get it. Saying I don\u2019t swear then in the next breath saying I use the godfather of the curse words is like saying I\u2019m a vegetarian, but I do quite enjoy the taste of a medium rare kitten.) While I was led to believe this essay&nbsp;is definitely within the trust tree and a judgment free zone, I know I have to get better.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-top: 12px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/30978\/article_108988_ic_quote@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #0b3b60;\">And so imagine, again, my lack of surprise when my then-two-year-old daughter asked one day while driving if we were in \u201cf&#8212;ing traffic.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 16px; display: block; margin: auto; text-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/31429\/article_109438_seperator_wiggle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, honestly, does it make me a bad parent if I think that sometimes it\u2019s pretty darn funny?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another recent trend in my house has been asking my daughter if she wants a snack and her replying, \u201cWell, what are my options?\u201d This annoys me because I then run through literally everything we have in the pantry, refrigerator, or freezer. I mean, I applaud her craving to become a more informed consumer, but come on, girl, you\u2019re four. Want me to swing the dessert tray around? Pick the fruits snacks with \u201cFrozen\u201d characters on them like all the other kids. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are my options? <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, recently, the kids were in bed. It was a nice summer night, and it was my intention to make a drink and sit out on the back porch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDo you want me to make you a drink,\u201d I asked my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell, what are my options?\u201d was her reply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apparently, these kids hear everything. I\u2019m just glad I\u2019m not the only one they repeat. My wife has a much better filter than I do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After our four-year-old expressed her rather strong political opinions in the car, I tried to explain to my wife, \u201cCrosby, Stills, and Nash wrote, \u2018Teach your children well.\u2019\u201d But I can\u2019t be certain this dissenting opinion&nbsp;<\/span>\u2014 while in my mind accurate&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;is something our daughter needs to be repeating. Luckily for me she didn\u2019t repeat what I said in class, but in the car with my wife.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-top: 12px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/30978\/article_108988_ic_quote@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #0b3b60;\">I hope that one day, my dinner table will not only be a place to share our daily experiences in school or soccer or debate club practice, but a place that harvests critical thought.<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 16px; display: block; margin: auto; text-align: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/31429\/article_109438_seperator_wiggle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope that one day, my dinner table will not only be a place to share our daily experiences in school or soccer or debate club practice, but a place that harvests critical thought. I would like it to be a place where we can encourage curiosity, critical thinking, debate, and dissent. Maybe I dial back the F-bombs for now. And maybe we hold off on getting into the crisis in Syria for a few more years. Maybe when she\u2019s six.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"float: left; padding: 20px 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/ovia-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/content_platform\/30351\/article_108396_family-on-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Matt with his family at the beach\" width=\"260\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the author:<\/strong><br \/>\nMatt Osgood is a freelance journalist based out of Haverhill, MA, where he lives with his wife, their two kids, and dog. 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