My Four-Year-Old Cannot Stop Fucking Swearing

A brief lesson in the profound differences between siblings and how Split Fiction briefly played a part.

Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash

A small tangent, if you’ll indulge me.

While picking up my four-year-old from daycare, she asked how her sister, at home with the flu, was doing. I told her she didn’t feel well. “Oh, shit,” she said in response.

In an early pediatrician appointments, we asked how to approach swearing when our kids got older. An avid proponent of swearing himself, the doctor offered two choices:

1. Stop swearing entirely.

2. Keep swearing and speak to your children when they start picking up on it.

I, too, am pro-swearing. Within moderation, but I enjoy a good swear for emphasis. The problem, we’ve discovered, is when one of your kids says “I wanna swear, too.”