Thou shalt NOT take the Lord's Name in VAIN.

[Reverend1111]

Originally Posted by denverian

I like your idea! I do try not to use God in the cussing sense. Although I think God may have laughed when I repeatedly asked him to damn my IKEA TV cabinet when I was trying to assemble it. I suppose he ultimately did, when it fell apart as I tried to move it out my front door

I find myself trying to edit out "Jeez" or "gosh dangit" type statements since I have 3 year olds who repeat everything. Overall, I find cussing to be something that may have an appropriate place (like among friends at a sports bar, for instance) but shows total classlessness (is that a word?) when people cuss in front of others in public, work, etc. I know my kids will cuss at some point - I'm not living outside reality. But I want them to know when are where it's totally inappropriate, like in front of any parents!

Kids do like to try us and no matter how much we shelter them from the things we don't want them to do, they will do it anyway.

The way I stopped my own son from swearing (I'm not saying he was a swearer by any means, he just found some of them fun to say) is I gave him one day every two weeks to swear all he wanted as long as it was just me in the house or car. The only stipulation was that he couldn't say the f word. After a while, he told me that he didn't like them and he was glad that he got to say them with me and that if he used them anywhere else, he wouldn't feel so good. That was when he was about 8 or 9. He's 18 now and still doesn't cuss unless it's just the two of us and it's usually only the donkey word. It worked beautifully but I know every child is different.

[HotinAZ]

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.