Toddler's cuss word on 'Modern Family' draws ire

[Jamie B]

http://news.yahoo.com/toddlers-cuss-word-modern-family-draws-ire-024407751.html

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

"We hope they know better," said Hatch. He's asking his club's members, whom he said number 35,000 in the United States and about three-dozen other countries, to complain to ABC.

Are you kidding me? 35,000 people in a country of 310 million? A world of 6 Billion?

Some folks are way too hung up on the own importance in this little world of ours.

I believe that the terrible bleeped cuss word in fudge. Sheesh!

[GigaBuist]

Oh for crying out loud.  Toddlers cuss if they hear the words enough.  Heck, they'll say anything if they hear it.  My daughter, now 2, spits out random words all the time.  Today she's with my mom, sitting on her lap, puts a finger on a nipple and says, "Nana's nipple!"  Over and over again.

My other favorites that I've taught her: Grab a cell phone and yell into it "Where's my money?!"

Hold random object over her head and yell, "By the power of Grayskull!"

"Booyah!" is now her go-to one-word exclamation.

Ok, so I might not be the best parent.

[BridgeRunner]

Whom?  Wtf, has no one taught the *expletive deleted*tards who write these articles any grammar at all?  Pitiful.  

[BlueStarLizzard]

Oh for crying out loud.  Toddlers cuss if they hear the words enough.  Heck, they'll say anything if they hear it.  My daughter, now 2, spits out random words all the time.  Today she's with my mom, sitting on her lap, puts a finger on a nipple and says, "Nana's nipple!"  Over and over again.

My other favorites that I've taught her: Grab a cell phone and yell into it "Where's my money?!"

Hold random object over her head and yell, "By the power of Grayskull!"

"Booyah!" is now her go-to one-word exclamation.

Ok, so I might not be the best parent.

You definetly fall for the temptations of parenthood.
Just don't pull the Calvin's dads chriatmas tree stunt.

[BridgeRunner]

Not so, Buist.  My daughter Ellie knows which words she is not allowed to say.  And being the perfect child that she is, I know that she will continue to obey me on this point until the day after she graduates high school, which is when I've told her she will be permitted to use any words she wants.  I'm not at all looking forward with anticipation and dread to that phone call from school one day, because she's such a little angel.  

[Boomhauer]

Ok, so I might not be the best parent.

My cousin has a 2 y.o. daughter. Last time I visited with them, I took the opportunity to teach her some new vocabulary. She now thinks pigs are called "Bacon" and the cat is "emergency bacon".

[Jamie B]

Obviously this *expletive deleted*che is not a fan of Christmas Story!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx1sSfriIA

Ironically, this clown has failed to notice that his childish language rant has brought more attention to the F bomb than the show's episode ever will.

Looks as if he has completely failed in his mission!  
Even more irony in the fact that he has helped the show's ratings more then he will ever know.
He has met the enemy, and it is him! I will sleep well tonight.

[BlueStarLizzard]

My cousin has a 2 y.o. daughter. Last time I visited with them, I took the opportunity to teach her some new vocabulary. She now thinks pigs are called "Bacon" and the cat is "emergency bacon".

I give this two thumbs up, sir!

[zahc]

She now thinks pigs are called "Bacon" and the cat is "emergency bacon".

I lol'd. Hard.

I grew up with a truck driver for a dad who cussed hard in nearly every sentence, and mom that wasn't much better. Somehow, I learned that I wasn't allowed to say those words. Maybe I just don't remember the times I got beat for saying them, but apparently it worked. I now know a lot of classic anglo-saxisms and when it's appropriate to use them.

[TechMan]

I will bet that McKay Hatch hasn't been *expletive deleted*ed at all in his short life time.

[Jamie B]

My cousin has a 2 y.o. daughter. Last time I visited with them, I took the opportunity to teach her some new vocabulary. She now thinks pigs are called "Bacon" and the cat is "emergency bacon".

You are truly evil - I am lucky that it was only ice water that I snorted on the laptop screen!  

Regarding parenting, I ain't casting no stones.
My kids have heard it all from me over the years, unfortunately, but they know what they can say.
Thankfully they are intelligent and very articulate, due to their mother's influence.
I am waiting on that call from the Catholic school about my son, though, one of these days......

[GigaBuist]

Not so, Buist.  My daughter Ellie knows which words she is not allowed to say.

We haven't tried telling her which words are bad.  When she picks something up, like yelling "OH MY GOD!" we just take that as a signal that we say it too much around her and stop.  Seems to fix it.

We'll probably start correcting her, if she ever picks them up, soon.  She's picking up on language skills quickly.  Yesterday morning she woke up and I asked her if she had a dream.  She said, "I was running, and running, and running, really fast!  I was number 8."

Not really sure where she picked that up.  She had been looking at some of my dad's running trophies the night before.  *shrug*

[Jamie B]

I will bet that McKay Hatch hasn't been *expletive deleted*ed at all in his short life time.

Yea, but he's *expletive deleted*ed now!

ETA: Snort! Someone has already started a F/B group Go F Yourself McKay Hatch.
Also seems that his nocussing.com site is down. Oopsie!

[Stetson]

My daughters new favorite is "Criminey!" when she gets frustrated.  She learned from my mom while watching football.  She also says "Oh me gosh!" a lot.  When we go out to eat, she usually stuns the waitress with "I would like <entree she wants>, apple juice and 4 or 5 sides of bacon for me and my dad to share, if you have any."  We are still working on that one though.

She knows what the unacceptable words are.  If she gets mad at me, usually for beating her at Chutes and Ladders she will say, "Daddy, you are a bad word!".   

[Perd Hapley]

My other favorites that I've taught her: Grab a cell phone and yell into it "Where's my money?!"

Hold random object over her head and yell, "By the power of Grayskull!"

"Booyah!" is now her go-to one-word exclamation.

Hee-hee.

"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."

I think I'd rather hear "F***" than "F-bomb," any day. So annoying.

[gunsmith]

I went shopping ( an arduous 300 mile round trip - every time ) with the local good looking single mom recently , as we drove through a rough section of town I turned to her and her son and said "we are in the ghetto now" her 4 yr old of course wanted to know what a ghetto was , before she could reply I said "its where we buy our crack, we will be sure to get some, remember when you get back to tell everyone we were in the ghetto buying crack"

Sometimes I can't help myself...

[Perd Hapley]

I went shopping ( an arduous 300 mile round trip - every time ) with the local good looking single mom recently , as we drove through a rough section of town I turned to her and her son and said "we are in the ghetto now"

Does that line work on women?

[makattak]

Yeah, it is COMPLETELY out of line when people get annoyed seeing bad behaviour modeled on TV.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=33130.0


(Although I think the title of that thread ought to be the title of this one...)

[AJ Dual]

Mine know what they're not supposed to say too.

However, they invent convoluted legalistic situations where they get to say them by way of explaining what happened, or what someone else got in trouble for.

[Lee]

Ahhh..brings back some memories.  Grandma (my mom) was visiting one time, and out of the blue, my 6-7 year old daughter blurted out " that TV is driving me Fing crazy".
Even better, when I told her that she shouldn't use THAT word, she said, "Gramma say's it".  My mom is a very conservative Southern Baptist who never cusses.  You should of seen the look on her face.

[wmenorr67]

My 18 almost 19 year old daughter uses Frickin a lot.  I hate it and let her know it.

[red headed stranger]

My son, who just recently turned 4, said "stop it you idiot" the other day when I picked him up at the store when he wouldn't come along with me.  I was shocked, and we had a talk about it right then and there.  

I knew we had never said that word in his presence.  

I finally realized that he got the idea to say it from watching the Peanuts Christmas Special when he called his little brother a blockhead.  

[HeroHog]

My wife was baby sitting her niece and I would drop by and stay there with her a few hours every now and then. One day the niece was out with her Me-Maw and they were in the Wal-Mart parking lot and they saw a dog. Heather, the niece, says "Look Me-Maw! What a cute puppy! Don't you like that puppy? If that was my puppy you know what I would name it? *expletive deleted*che Bag! Don't you think that's a cute name?"
Well, Me-Maw about had a heart attack and asked her where she had heard that and she said Unka Peeby and Aunt Tay-Tay called each other that and she thought it was cute! Needless to say, Me-Maw AND Heather's Mom and Dad had a few choice new words for Unka Peeby and Aunt Tay-Tay...

[gunsmith]

Does that line work on women?

Not yet

[S. Williamson]

When we go out to eat, she usually stuns the waitress with "I would like <entree she wants>, apple juice and 4 or 5 sides of bacon for me and my dad to share, if you have any."  We are still working on that one though.

Okay, I lost it. 

/continues taking notes for Parenting