People swearing (using foul language) around your kids ?
Drives me nuts / pisses me off !
My wife and I take raising our 3 kids right VERY seriously !
We don't drink, both have never smoked, drugs never! in 20 years with my wife, i've never heard a curse word from her mouth and I make sure never to swear around any kids!
My wife has not worked since my oldest was born because we don't want relatives or day care raising our kids and them being influenced by others.
I fell I am very fortunate because I know well behaved my kids are, one friend says it's because "they are very quiet kids"
That may be part true, but as in anything in life,
you get out what you put in ! (my wife especially gives up everything in her life for her kids)
So when people swear around them, it pisses me off, and I'm always talking with them, letting them know that those are bad words and they should not repeat them!
It amazes me how some parents who talk like that in front of their kids and they are surprised when the kids say the same words :huh:


Another thing that drives me nuts,
is every time you turn on the tv or radio, there is a commercial for some kind of pill for erectile dysfunction or for women with some sexual dysfunction!
What are you supposed to tell your young kids when they ask questions ?
my opinion,
Society today have gone to hell !!!

I agree Ronnie...
The guy who works for me listens to Howard Stern everyday...and I always have to tell him to turn it off, he will think nothing of playing it loud with people or kids around...I'll admit I think some of it is a riot and I can be a rude s.o.a.b. at times but there is a time and a place for everything....some stuff kids should not hear, and people deserve not to be subjected to things that might be vulgar or cause embarrassment.
The problem is alot of people today lack morals and respect for others....

I agree Ronnie...
The guy who works for me listens to Howard Stern everyday...and I always have to tell him to turn it off, he will think nothing of playing it loud with people or kids around...I'll admit I think some of it is a riot and I can be a rude s.o.a.b. at times but there is a time and a place for everything....some stuff kids should not hear, and people deserve not to be subjected to things that might be vulgar or cause embarrassment.
The problem is alot of people today lack morals and respect for others....

I think a lot of people lack morals and respect for themselves also Matt !

I like the new commercial that has a tampon as a roller coaster!!!:smash:

because of the STRONG taboo's television,live radio broadcasts, and movies
and the subsequent harsh penalties placed on uttering a swear word...

a whole new substitute for the f word has emerged so that the ultimate utility of the F-word can be still used without actually using it so that it has become even more pervasive in our society

case in point: on the battlestar galactica series they came out with frackin...or they 'll say something like i don't give a frag....

theres "freakin" used as a substitute for the f -word , so the adjective can still be used...on tv and radio daily

i once read that the F-word originated when...in the olden days ..if you were found rolling in the hay....having sex with the farmers daughter

you were known to be Found Under Carnal Knowledge and then you were placed in a stockade in the public square to be pelted with tomatoes or eggs and humiliated into shame...

having lived in California where it is used (the F-word) in every sentence
and in many different forms of expression...

i was surprised actually when sitting in the farm VAN relaxing while some papers were signed by my better half...on saturday...how often i heard it said while listening to a group of Bikers all tellin stories having a good ole time. These were not the hard core bikers either..they were more like the
higher class of bikers with good jobs and big families, fairly well off financially... it was every third word almost...or fourth and it sure made me think of how much i unconciously have used it in the past.:cputin:

Hang around the Railroad Bridge on the ditch-cape side some evening waiting for the west tide and you will hear some nice guys fishermen talking about their lies even when you aren't involved. They are boisterous and don't care if there are women, children and visitors present. The F word is their favorite means of expression.:tm:

I have to say, that being a product of the Lynn Public School System and then following that up with a 7 year stint in the Navy, I have a Slight issue with using proper English. I try but I don't always succeed to keep it clean.

That being said I do real good at keeping it clean in front of women and kids and if I see someone using the F'Bomb in front of them I will say something to them. I'm on my 8th year as a Scout leader and I haven't sworn in front of these kids yet (and believe me, there have been plenty of "Serenity Now" moments).

and if anybody tells you "You're Lucky, You have good kids" feel free to throw them the "F" Bomb....it isn't luck, its hard work on you and your wife's part.

Im not bright enough to express myself any other way !

brining up "good kids " is hard work today with all the influence outside the home ie: friends and others tv . I have 2 perfectly behaved girls ( everyone comments ) . that have friends that use foul language and they dont .

keep up the good work Ron . Its hard what your doing . today

As I pulled into my driveway last night, I noticed that the new Guatamalian neighbor lady was allowing her 3 year old daughter to piss on the short cement walkway leading from the road to my front steps. Nice sight to come home to.

Lady, we use fuxxing toilets in the USA.

I swore at her. In front of her kid. Was that wrong ?

I love Brockton

Ronnie, you'll never be sorry for bringing up your kids the right way.

The sacrafices you and your wife are making now are paying off, and will be even more evident in thre future..

Refreshing, so good to hear. :)

Jule 4th am,
I had a 4 hr flounder charter for 2 (father & son)
Pretty simple morning charter, so I had Leo mate.
Next day after the charter I gave him a $20 for helping out and told him he could spend it any way he wanted, though I hoped he would say to deposit it in his bank account.
A few days later, he asks me if I could take him to a store to buy something with the $20,
I told him sure, what do you plan to buy?
He says,
"I want to get something for mom"
I almost started to cry when he said that !
So we went and got something for my wife and I gave him another $20
and told him lets pick out something for him.
So he gets a toy that was less than $10 and gets another one also, he says this one is for Matt (his younger brother)
Not only a good kid, but he's a model student , gets excellent grades (as do all 3 of my kids) in school !
I guess I'm doing an ok job and will continue doing things the way I am doing them !

Keep up the good work Ronnie!:kewl:

I guess I'm doing an ok job


More than OK. :hihi:

God Bless ya.

Another thing that drives me nuts,
is every time you turn on the tv or radio, there is a commercial for some kind of pill for erectile dysfunction or for women with some sexual dysfunction!
What are you supposed to tell your young kids when they ask questions ?
my opinion,
Society today have gone to hell !!!

Isn't it amazing that these drugs for treatment of erectile dysfunction were the results of drug test of a new cancer treatment?
Of course, if they put as much effort into working on a cancer cure as they have on curing the dreaded limp-noodle syndrome we would all be better off.

[Quote from Raven]
you were known to be Found Under Carnal Knowledge and then you were placed in a stockade in the public square to be pelted with tomatoes or eggs and humiliated into shame...

My religion teacher in high school explained it as :
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, with the same results.

Isn't it amazing that these drugs for treatment of erectile dysfunction were the results of drug test of a new cancer treatment?
Of course, if they put as much effort into working on a cancer cure as they have on curing the dreaded limp-noodle syndrome we would all be better off.



Doesn't your first statement disprove your 2nd?

I should have been clearer.
The discovered the "side effect" of the possible cancer treatment was a mega-stiffy, and put all their energy into processing the drug for that side effect, not the cancer treatment.
It tends to be a pharmacuetical company going where the big money is.
They can sell hard on pills to many more so-called erectile dysfunction patients than they could sell a cancer treatment to cancer sufferers. It's just "business".
They pump out hundreds if not thousands of idiotic treatments for ailments that "are all in the patients' heads" so that we will all become a pill popping nation.
"We don't find the cure, we only treat the disease."

You want more concrete proof? Try reading the list of "side effects" that new drugs warn you about. If the "possible" side effects are worse than the original illness, where is the benefit?

I honestly think its a balance. I dont want my kids to be so secluded from the real world they dont know how to respond to it. Although you dont drink, do drugs, swear, they WILL be exposed to it. I'd rather they hear it from me than from some kids in the playground.
Kind of funny, my 5yr old asked about smoking and I told her that it is stupid, makes your lungs black, etc. Walking down the street, we pass a few people smkoing and my 3yr old yells out - "Daddy, look at those people smoking, they're stupid, right?"
i think respect and understanding teh consequences of their actions is the most important thing a kids can learn and it sounds like you are doing a great job of it.