Submitted by new_Australis t3_10yy8ig in massachusetts
forrealz42 t1_j80d8ks wrote
Reply to comment by new_Australis in Pre-School teacher at a public school keeps disciplining out son for saying "oh my god" by new_Australis
He might be a bit too young to understand the distinction between bad words and words that aren't appropriate in certain settings. But he sounds really upset by the way they're speaking to him. I'd talk to the teacher about how they're addressing it but also maybe make an effort to not say it around him. It seems to be distressing to him that mimicking your behavior/doing something that you think is ok is getting him in trouble at school.
new_Australis OP t1_j80eoiv wrote
>He might be a bit too young to understand the distinction between bad words and words that aren't appropriate in certain settings
Yes. We have told him which words are vulgar, shit fuck, bitch etc, not told him directly but he hears it on the tv, movies, in the street and he asks about it and we tell him we do not use those words. We just never got around telling him the word god would be an issue. Mainly because I never thought it would be.
5teerPike t1_j80g2kq wrote
I don't know why you should change when it's the teacher's religious hang up that has no place in a classroom to begin with.
forrealz42 t1_j80j494 wrote
I mean, you're right, but that's just something we have to do when we have little ears in the house sometimes. And it's a good lesson to learn that sometimes words have power over other people that they don't have over us.
Personally, it's an "oh your god" situation for me, but not being a child psychologist, maybe that's just too high a concept for a 5-year-old.
forrealz42 t1_j80fgk0 wrote
Yeah, I know. I have a really bad habit of dropping F-bombs in bad situations because it doesn't even register to me as a bad word anymore. Like, I have my own problems with bad words and inappropriately timed words and I'm way older than your kid. But I am old enough to tell people who are offended by my saying oh my god to fuck off which he is not.
forrealz42 t1_j80fxt0 wrote
Whoops! Sorry, I was a lost redditor for a moment.
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