[Jemstar]

Hit me with your ideas. Nothing I have tried works and I am sick and tired of the vocabulary of my 7 year old. Unfortunately, he has learned quite a lot at school and uses it liberally.

[Jax12]

Oh god, my first thought was to wash their mouth out with soap, even though I would NEVER do this and have never had it done to me. Clearly I was threatened with it enough as a child though for it to have made a lasting imprint!

No helpful suggestions, sorry OP. I shudder to think of the doozies DS might drop soon - and we have no one to blame

[Beancat]

Tell him if he keeps swearing people wont want their children to play with him so it will result in less friends.

[mad madam mim]

What have you tried? Has the teacher spoken to him about it?

[Jemstar]

Playing the friendship card would mean nothing to my DS for a variety of reasons. Also, who do you think he learned some of the language from?

FTR he doesn't swear at school, he is apparently adorable and incredibly well behaved (turns into a demon at 3 apparently). I have tried such things as time out, removing favourite items/toys, Tv/electronics bans, cancelling looked forward to activities etc. I haven't washed his mouth out with soap, I can't imagine doing that, I think that is a revolting thing to do to a child (even though it might work).

This post has been edited by Jemstar: 17/01/2013, 05:46 PM

[Saecularis Angel...]

My mum used a spoonful of chilli, and it (mostly) worked...

[Mumof32b!]

I made my DS9 write out 100 times "I will not swear" seems to have worked so far, although it was a one off, he has never sworn before so that might not be drastic enough for your situation.

Find his currency and take it away possibly? I would definitely be saying no to further playdates for the time being.

[Jemstar]

Yes, a friend has suggested curry powder, but frankly, that seems like physical abuse to me.

He doesn't do playdates. I haven't tried making him write lines, that's an oldie but a goodie, I might give that a go.

He even talks a out the kids at school and how naughty they are for swearing . He has always had a bit of a propensity for trying out behaviours he's seen at school at home.

This post has been edited by Jemstar: 17/01/2013, 05:51 PM

[soontobegran]

What is his currency?
Perhaps you could remove a privilege for a pre organised number of minutes for every swear word used and use a chart to keep track.
It could mean a total loss of that particular privilege for days or even weeks if the behaviour continues.

I was brought up in the days of licking a block of soap and I learnt pretty quickly that this was the consequence of swearing. I know it's an EB 'no no' but I believe I may have used this once or twice on my children but they didn't make a habit of swearing in front of us so we didn't have to face the issue.

I know people who have swear jars which takes away pocket money with each word until some are in debt.

[Butterflyqueen]

If he is only doing it home, why even bother punishing? I know with my two DD's (7 & 9) the more people react the bigger the payoff. When they discovered that words had power over grown ups it was like they had discovered magic It was really only my Mum that reacted and that meant she always copped the worst of it. Once I told her to back off they stopped trying it out on her.

My kids just get an eye roll or if they are really pushing the boundaries a quick chat about having a potty mouth being really uncool at their age. So far, they seem to have all the basic words memorised but very rarely use them.