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From:	chastidy (216.198.106.92)
Subject:	potty mouth help
Date:	May 3, 2008 at 4:21 pm PST

Hello, I am a newbie here and was looking for some Christian guidance on an issue we have been having. We homeschool our 9 year old as well as our up and coming kindergartner and toddler. We are pretty conservative and don't allow our kids to use slang terms or say things to each other such as shut up or call each other names like stupid. To me our actions as Christians speak loudly. The Bible clearly says that our conversation is supposed to be clean and free of idle speech. It says to let the words of our mouths be acceptable in His sight, etc. We have close family whose children go to ps and they use a LOT of slang terms. I have asked them not to use them when around me and my children and they continue to do so. Yesterday the 14 yr old came in and "told" on my 9 yr old for getting on to her for saying "crap". He asked her not to say it in front of his 21 month old brother. Her mother just told her it was better than words she could have said. I told her that I was taught that slang terms were just substitutions of the "real" word. I was not even allowed to say "DARN" growing up. She told me that she doesn't take it that way. They claim to be Christians too but to me that kind of speech is not comely of Christians. Now I have to admit that I do have my own habits of choice terms that I looked up today and really had no idea of the true meanings. (What in the Sam Hill, doggone it, dad gum, etc )However I try not to say these in public. I know that by saying them at home in front of my kids and then telling them not to swear is hypocritical and I plan to try to eliminate them from my vocabulary

I know that some of you probably are rolling your eyes thinking I am nuts and that there is nothing wrong with that kind of speech. I have been convicted of it personally and just need some insight from those of you who believe the same way. How do you protect your kids from picking up things like this? We try to be very careful not to "over" shelter but this is one thing that I plan to stand against. I do not like potty mouth and I don't believe God does either.

My SIL gets very offended by me getting on to her children but she continuously gets onto my children right in front of me and never EVER corrects her own for wrong actions. (for example her son hit mine in the head with a metal swing and instead of simply telling him to be more careful she told my son that he wasn't bleeding so he was fine)

Anyway I have looked up scripture on this and read several articles where the aurthors agree with my viewpoint that using slang is just as bad as the real thing. I don't want to start a war and I usually just take things and take things but I really feel like I am right in asking them not to talk that way around my children.

If anyone is still reading I would like your opinion on what I should do if anything (share scripture, shrug it off and move on, not allow the kids over if they continue??)

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