How do you handle a toddler using bad words

Over the past few days my DS has been calling me "stupid." He says it after I say something he doesn't like, here's an example:

Me: please eat some more breakfast
Him: stupid

after he says it he immediately says "I'm sorry" yet he still continues to do it. I will say something like "that's not a nice word to say, we don't say that" doesn't seem to be working very well.

Any advice?

Re: How do you handle a toddler using bad words

Don't use those words.
Kids imitate.
I had a bit of a potty mouth... And had to stop cursing very quickly.

If you have an older child who uses those words, you just have to keep saying: that's not nice.

Re: How do you handle a toddler using bad words

I find the ignore strategy works best right now. My DD overhead someone say "Oh, S_I_T." And she immediately repeated it a few times. We just pretended not to hear her and she never used it again. However, I know that if i made a big fuss and said "that it's not something we say," she'd be using it constantly for attention.

Re: How do you handle a toddler using bad words

My DD does this with curse words. It came from everyone, me, DH, grandpa! Nothing really works for us but soap!

Re: How do you handle a toddler using bad words

i wish the worst word DD said was stupid.

The other day she said something about getting smacked in the ass.

I know I have myself to blame- I have the worst mouth ever.
I just looked at her sternly- said- WHAT did you say? And she knew right away and corrected herself- she said- I mean butt!
I said- ok because you don't use that word.
IMO if you make a huge deal of it they will do it more for attention.

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Last night DD was singing her own lil song that included the f-word!!!! After DH and I stared at each other in hilarious disbelief I just told her that was a silly fake word and it didn't make any sense and to only use "real" words in her songs. She stopped, for the time being!

Message edited 10/28/2013 10:47:12 AM.

Re: How do you handle a toddler using bad words

Ignore ignore ignore....my DD use to say "Errrr Fuk It" when she got frustrated. I would just ignore it and she stopped using those words. Thank God!

How do you handle a toddler using bad words

DS does the same thing. It's very grating when he says the same things over and over. And sometimes he says words that aren't really quite potty words but, like they are.

I give him 5 chances to not say the word and if he reaches 5, he doesn't get tv before bed. It happened once and hasn't happened since.

The annoying thing to me is that he's the first to rat out his friends for using potty words yet, he constantly uses them himself.

How do you handle a toddler using bad words

Thank you all!

I wish the worst he says is stupid, but he has worse. We've been very good about not saying any curses or even mean words like stupid. It's hard to control what other people may slip out, like his uncle

Just this morning he was testing me saying "bit" "bit" I said "what are you saying?" He goes "I saying bit" but I know he's testing me with b!tch.