How do we handle a swearing kid?

Post date: 2021-06-15 15:29:05

Our kid is 8 and plays with a 7 year old neighbor who swears. A lot. How should we approach the mom?

I had to send them home the other day because I overheard them calling me a "dumb ass bitch" to my kid. The mom made them come over and apologize, but it was weird - they apologized for "not listening" to me.

And then other day my kid came in and said "neighbor kid said the B word and the A word and Mother F-word and called me a dick which isn't even a word!"

How do we approach the mom (there is only one parent) without her getting defensive? We know the mom fairly well, but she definitely tunes out the kids when they're playing together outside. So it often feels like we hear everything that goes on and she hears... nothing. We also hear her yell and swear at her own kids, so know that's partly how they know how to talk this way. It sometimes seems like she thinks we're being uptight because we care about this. I'm also getting mad about having to police her kid's language constantly or send them home.

We live super close so it's really hard to just not hang out at all or even take some space without being pretty hardcore about ignoring each other, but I don't want my kid talking this way at 8 or being called a motherf*cker by his friend.

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