Please help help help!!!!

[LoveMyBoyK]

My son overheard my husband say "f*ck it" and now keeps repeating it. He is 3. We take away TV time for each offense but he keeps saying it. Any ideas????

[mrswillie]

Ignore it. He will stop.

[ScrChk23]

 Don't react to it.  He keeps saying it because you are reacting to it and he thinks it is funny.  We have the same issue.

[cara124]

I found that if you ignore it they will stop saying it... seems the less attention give to something the better...

[sukainah]

Oh no.  Yea, I'd say try not to respond to it and see if he just stops.

[goddess99]

Ignore him, once he doesn't get attention he'll stop.

[ceciliam]

I agree.

Quoting timon95:

try not to make a big deal out of it. tell him it is not a good word to say. the more you acknowledge him when he says it the more he will say it. see if he stops saying it if you start to ignore him.

[tiabear13]

Oh no! I am sure he doesn't know what it means other than he gets a reaction every time he says it. When my son said something like that, we told him it was not a nice word, it was a grown up word and one that nobody should say. We gave him something different to say - something silly, and then we worked on saying the same kind of word we gave our son to say (hope that rambling makes sense!)

[dusky_rose]

50 lashes with a wet noodle for dh and try to think of something else that amuses the child. My 5 year old son is amused with bathroom humor right now. So pee and poop are so funny to him.

[apoynter]

We told my son that was a 'Daddy word'....

[elasmimi]

This worked for us, too.

Quoting sissyboogs:

I give my kids acceptable alternatives. When my son learned "oh shit"...I asked him to say "oh man" instead. It works for my kids.