My daughter has asked me to watch it around my grandchildren so they won't pick it up, and mostly I do....unless I forget.

But they're getting to the age where they will hear it.

I think your conversation with your grandson is right on! That was a great way to handle the topic.

I only read one post when you used scatological language and it was most effective because you don't over use it.

I used to swear more here than I do now. I guess I decided it was unbecoming, or something.

But now and then someone from my past reminds me of my F-Bomb days, and of course I oblige them. I DO have a reputation to uphold, after all.

He didn't know I was there. This was not that they didn't know how. It was a conscious choice. They chose not to swear around children. My grandmother did not discuss gays around us, though my uncle had a roommate for more than thirty years, and they visited the house for Sunday dinners a couple of times a month, Uncle Jim and Uncle John. They are buried side by side, now. It was a different time.

Cursing is accepted now. It's a cultural change. Fuck, let it rip.

English and profanity.

It was probably 65 years ago.
I think grandpa had goosed her in the butt or something.
He was what we called a 'real cut up'.
Anyway, he surprised her or scared her and she said "SHIT, MARVIN!".
Hoowee.

Granny was a strict Southern Baptist and a tea-totaller.
A died-in-the-wool prohibitionist.
I couldn't believe she even KNEW that word, let alone used it.