Did your parents ever censor themselves in front of you when you were a kid?

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Do/Would you censor yourself in front of your own kids?

SweetFyter · Accepted Answer

My parents are pretty conservative and my mom more than my dad. And I know they censor what they say around us (or, at least me and my youngest brother). But I have heard them a few times and their "vocabulary" changes - LOL. Especially about politics - but more Dad than Mom.

But when my mom and I had "the talk" she was unbelievably open and using terms I knew but NEVER expected to hear from her and - so, yeah, I think parents have a "secret" life or something.

Will I censor myself around my kids? Yes, I think there are a LOT of things little kids don't need to hear. But, once they're like pre-teen and older, you need to start talking to them like the young adults they are (or are becoming) otherwise how will they learn to think for themselves?

Cynicaldreamer · Accepted Answer

My dad rarely, if ever, swore in front of us. If he did, something really upset him!

Now my mom would swear like a sailor, lol. Mostly when she was upset. The only word she wouldn't say around us is the "f word." Oddly enough, me and my siblings weren't able to swear. My mom threatened to wash my mouth out with that lava soap!

... to this day, I don't swear around my parents. Out of respect and fear 😆

DaveJord · Accepted Answer

My parent did censor themselves in front of us, and I have often thought back on this and wondered how the fuck they did that? None of my relationships worked like that, and I always thought it was supposed to. My ex would criticize me to no end in front of the kids and I never really knew how to respond to it. If I got angry then I was a jerk, when I addressed it in private I was told I was paranoid... if I ignored it then it continued and felt I needed to defend myself in front of the kids or look like a retard all the time.

In the end to this day, I never know how my parents kept everything so private and to a certain degree I wish they hadn't because maybe I would of been better prepared for my bitch of an ex wife.

AndrewMG · Accepted Answer

So my Mum when she first began to drive was massively nervous, so she let me have days off school whilst I sat in the car with her (remarkably I passed my exams lol). Buy my main memory is my Mum who had never swore before became the most foul mouthed person in the world when driving... but what was truly funny was that rather than a normal swearword she would combine 2 words to make one brilliant swearword. Hence a Tw@t W@nker, C*nt B@stard, F*ck Bellend are some of my favourite phrases of all time lol

Telekinetic-Potato · Answer

They did at first, but then they realised they were teaching me more curses that way and that was when they concocted a deranged and incredibly mentally damaging plan to over inflate my five year old ego by saying things like "he's just too smart for his age"

You know, just in case I didn't have enough confidence that my banshee voice could land me a singing career.

Anthontcillio · Answer

Yeah they did, but they were so inconsistent that may as well not have done it at all. Lots of crazy fighting growing up so I learned a lot of ways to emotionally hurt someone. Luckily I’m calm as an adult.. but when someone does push me over the edge (very very rarely.. maybe 3-5 times in the last 12 years)… I can emotionally ruin someone who doesn’t have thick skin

ReneD13 · Answer

It's kind of a weird one to answer they never really censored themselves but they also never had too. My dad was a pastor when I was growing up and both my mom was religious as well. I didn't grow up in a crazy strict house or anything, but even now that I'm older they never cuss or make wildly inappropriate comments.

silkjames · Answer

No my parents always spoke there mind but with my daughter I might curse sometimes nothing to bad tho if your feeling some type of way just speak your mind lol aslong it's not out of control nonsense talk I sometimes have to tell my friends to shut up if my daughter around lol but other than that it's not to bad I think lol

NathanDavis · Answer

Nope... both of my parents just never used any swear words, and it wasn't a "rule" or censorship of a kind, that's just how they have always been... and I am pretty much the same, I can go weeks without them just because I don't need them... lol

SecretsofKB · Answer

Yes! They had to when my first word was 'shit' lol Not mom or dad or any variation lol but shit... They watched what they said around me more closely after that lol

Guy13 · Answer

Hell fwckin NO, wtf… why should parent have to stop their 💩 talking. It’s just the fwckin kids and if they don’t know no better then that’s what these Correctional items are for: 🏏
🥊
🧯
🚪🔑. By Gawd…fwckin pain in the 🚼 SOB

At least that’s how I recall it 😢

DizzyDesii · Answer

Lol just so you know, i was about to ask a similar question but i promise its been sitting in my drafts until i could put out another 🤣 And yes my mom censored herself for the most part bt my grandparents never did

Apple1996 · Answer

Nope and I don't do it around my kids either. Bad words just aren't inappropriate to me they are just words and my kids are gonna learn them eventually

DonkeyDan · Answer

All the bad swear words I learnt from my mother mostly by the age of 8. They didn't care what we heard as children. I always try and watch what I say around kids.

libsaretards · Answer

None of the adults censored themselves around kids. There really is no point in censoring just because a kid is around. One, they will learn it anyways at some point. Two, if they do not learn it from you in a controlled setting and know when and when not to use curse words, they will learn it from another source and make their own judgment on when THEY choose to use the swear words and that might lead to sticky situations.

GlassTop · Answer

My parents would be screwing while we were in the room. They walked around naked. They would make sex jokes. Fart all the time. My sisters would compare breast sizes often and walk around naked. My brothers would bring home girls and have wild sex. As we got older that stopped happening.

caitycat21 · Answer

Yes. If they didn’t want me to understand what they were saying they’d just say it in French, Spanish, or creole

Anonymous · Answer

I don't think there is any need for ridiculous censorship. Censorships do not work, on the contrary, they increase curiosity. For example I've been exposed to a lot of cursing in my life. At school, on the street, among friends, family, relative. But I'm ashamed to curse. I curse/insult myself occasionally, of course, but I'm definitely embarrassed to do so in front of people.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

My parents are academics and of course they talk that way. So there never was any need for them to censor themselves.

molonski2 · Answer

There was never a need to do it , I certainly never did it , nor was it necessary , just shows extremely poor parenting quite frankly , inept.

saturnianqueen · Answer

they still do. cursing around them is something we definitely never do. it’s out of respect for them. but i curse all the time when they’re not around.

Cherry234 · Answer

My dad at least did this when I was a kid but I'm not sure about my mom. Now they both curse all the time lol.

Tiptoetamm · Answer

My mother speaks like a pirate so no they didn't sensor anything. I learned on my own there's a time and a place for everything

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

OMG!  My dad often spoke "in codes" with my mom.  It's not unusual since the military has been his life longer that my oldest brother.

melanieeeB · Answer

My mom doesn't really swear and if she does, she will apologize for it... but I do swear often, no clue from where i got that shit from tho

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

I don't think my parents did. But my grandmother did. As soon as I turned 13 she started swearing infront of me. I was so shocked

TadCurious · Answer

Bella I'm sure they probably did. Although I do remember their using some mild expletives on occasion but never the f-word. 😊🙋‍♂️

Titanic1912 · Answer

I used to think that my father was an idiot because he couldn’t complete a full sentence. He would say, “WHAT THE... GET YOUR... I’LL PUT A... GET OUT OF MY FACE!”

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

No and there’s no reason for any parents to censor themselves, first of all if your kids don’t hear cuss words from you they will hear them regardless and I wouldn’t want my kids to be that one kid who thinks shut up is a bad word at 14

ShadezMcgee · Answer

Dad pulled no punches, Mom was the one who censored herself.

Kabluie · Answer

Nah, they take us to watch rated R movies at a young age, and had no problem being unplugged, there was no censor. If anything it built character.

FictionalCharacter · Answer

Tsk, never. My dad was a very libertine man around his kids and in public.

naraku · Answer

Dad , no ! He 'tried' to watch his language around us kids but wasn't successful most times. Mum would always be trying to tell him to watch what he was saying!

Ekvark · Answer

No not at all, but they censored the shit out of us

fonduegirl · Answer

My mom still does it 🤣 I'm 21, my brother 14.

Andres77 · Answer

My mom never needed to. She was always appropriate and an angel

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

My parents swore in front of me and they were blunt

Valso · Answer

They did but my sister, the other rebel in the family, always did the opposite, so I learned (from her) cursing at quite a young age, lol

annabananna · Answer

We censor ourselves in front of our kids. I don’t say anything I wouldn’t want them saying.

skyeee_ · Answer

my dad curses at least once everyday. im used to this so it doesn't really affect me

douride2 · Answer

I do remember mom shooshing my father & cutting him of to keep him quiet some days.

KellyPlayz333555 · Answer

Whenever my parents go swimming or when they sunbathe in Spain, they sometimes go naked and it happened many times when I was a kid. My dad wears no clothes in bed and my mom wears pyjamas or thermal clothing, just like I do.

TallAnon · Answer

My mother censors herself all the time, she doesn't swear or anything even now. My dad doesn't give a fuck

Jeansnowstarkbastard · Answer

My father never censored himself. My mother and the rest of her family did censor themselves.  I also try to censor myself.

The_Outlaw · Answer

If they did, it was mild. But it didn't stop me from cussing later.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

No; because they don't cuss at all anyway. I learned that (cussing) from a kid in school.

nocturnalbreed · Answer

They just won't use profane or harsh words, if me or my siblings use it punishment awaits for us

dolemite89 · Answer

not with swearing they only watched what they said if guests were around.

ForeverAtreides7890 · Answer

Most certainly! Now all I hear are details I never wanted to know

Genie23 · Answer

When we were kids? Definitely.

dustybiker · Answer

I had older parents. They never needed to.

AmandaYVR · Answer

Often, yes. But not often enough.

Anonymous · Answer

My parents were always cautious when about anything they talked about in front of me.

Toast792 · Answer

It's a pretty ridiculous notion honestly...

exitseven · Answer

My father used to say HS when he meant horse shit.

JosyJosy · Answer

No, when pissed all words get thrown around

Crankor · Answer

Nope, they may have tried but failed

Jay3344 · Answer

Spelling out words when I was little

Juliette1994 · Answer

If they did they use the French swears words.

Still-alive · Answer

yup.. many many times... they still do in fact

Alexis_1996 · Answer

Never my first words were Fudge You. To my dad.

Twalli · Answer

Less now that we're older

devoygf · Answer

My parents never did this

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

All the time

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