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What the *#@%?! How to respond when your child swears

  • Written by: Wendy Goff, Associate Professor, Deputy Chair Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology
What the *#@%?! How to respond when your child swearsAshton Bingham/Unsplash

Parents can often find themselves staring in bewilderment at the little human they helped to create.

Sometimes this bewilderment is centred around awe and amazement. Sometimes it is firmly entrenched in shock and embarrassment about a specific behaviour they have just witnessed.

When a child swears it can be the latter that...

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