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Your duty is to teach your own kids a lesson and otherwise mind your business unless there’s some sort of dangerous situation.
Do you want to model the "karen" behavior for your children?
This is not a lesson I would want them to absorb and imitate. Especially not with strangers.
a pet peeve is when children tell adults how to act.
I don't know what country you live in but if you live in America or a similar-enough country, this has been a problem for at least fifteen years (maybe even twenty).
For some time, I was tempted to blame the decline of social skills on technology: Too many kids using YouTube = too many kids being exposed to things that they're unprepared for.
There could however be another answer. I recently listened to a University lecture that would disagree with my natural intellect.
You think swearing in public has only been a thing for 15-20 years? People have been swearing in public long before the turn of the 21st century, and long before YouTube was ever a thing.
why are swear words, swear words, who decided that a word is a swear word? its just a power word that a noun, adjective, verb, subject, pronoun all at once. who is in the office of authority that decides if its a swear word
Yeah it’s all a little superficial. Don’t drop an f-bomb in front of a child, but drink and smoke in front of them, eat a poor diet, have a sedentary lifestyle, horde a bunch of junk in the garage, have 3 baby daddy’s, bla bla bla… just be careful saying certain words around them. That’s what’s gonna wreck their future
Yeah it’s all a little superficial. Don’t drop an f-bomb in front of a child, but drink and smoke in front of them, eat a poor diet, have a sedentary lifestyle, horde a bunch of junk in the garage, have 3 baby daddy’s, bla bla bla… just be careful saying certain words around them. That’s what’s gonna wreck their future
Webster decided the terminology and it's disparaged use by some with limited ability to express in a social civil environment.
I had the pleasure of reminding a young baseball group in our hotel to speak politely. The coach got wind of it and took the approach of: you represent our school .
That was enough for them to change their tune.
We can choose our language and conveyance. Webster has a plethora of other terminology to get a point across.
Words matter. As does social manners. Practice it.
I was with my sister, my two children and her two children.
We were walking to our car. A group ahead of us was talking loudly and then all of sudden, one of them got really loud and said "Oh, Jesus, would you just shut up?"
My niece was 8.
She said "I don't understand. We learn about Jesus at church and he is nice. Why is that guy so mad at him? Are there two Jesuses - one nice one and one mean one?
Not fussed about it. I tell my children they are grown up words and that when they are grown up they will know when is and isn't appropriate to use them. My oldest is 11 now, doesn't swear (in my hearing...not fussed if she does with her friends but I don't think she does yet) and is quick to tell me off if I swear in her presence and told me when I let her read a book of mine that I forgot had swear words in. So I don't think all the swearing she's heard in public has done much harm (and she's heard a lot, people swear a lot in Finland, and swearing in English doesn't count so no radio edits of international songs with swearing)
Not sure I understand how this 1-way freedoms work. People can say whatever they want in public, but no one in the public can say anything back.. Sounds like you are one of those "my way or the highway" kind of folks..
No I’m not one of those my way or the highway folks. I know when to mind my own business. Like I said previously profanity or any word is not worth risking my life over. I have no interest in censoring anyone. That’s not my job. And I don’t want anyone to censor me. It’s a two way street.
No I’m not one of those my way or the highway folks. I know when to mind my own business. Like I said previously profanity or any word is not worth risking my life over. I have no interest in censoring anyone. That’s not my job. And I don’t want anyone to censor me. It’s a two way street.
I'm still not understanding your point. Trying now for the third time... If you say something that annoys me, I have no right to tell you that annoys me?
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Story from 30 years ago but relevant
