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How to Teach Your Kids When It's OK to Curse

My son was seven or eight years old when he asked me about the “S word.” My husband and I had decided early on that we wouldn’t curse around him, so he was genuinely unfamiliar with most, if not all, of the biggies. (Side note: This is what we believe infancy is for—it took us the first full year of his life to break the habit of swearing around him in our home.) When he asked, I glanced at my hus