I have a relaxed attitude to swearing. Should I care if my children use swear words? | Isabelle Oderberg

When I asked my husband whether we should stop using foul' language in front of the kids, he laughed

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Should I care if my children use swear words?"

My three-year-old is a genius. Just the other day, she created her first portmanteau. You can imagine our pride, her parents, both writers, when she called her brother a basthole", giggling as she created a word more powerful than its constituent contributors; arsehole and bastard.

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