I made a trip to tennessee this past week. i was sitting in the lobby of a hotel when a young couple sat down next to me with their baby in a stroller. I said hey out of kindness and pretty soon we were talking. There baby was about two years old. Out of the blue the little girl says "Hell no a**hole" And the parents thought is was funny. I remember when i was a child and i did some things wrong in a public place or anywhere for that matter, i was whooped right there on the spot. What is the world comming to these days?

ummm...... it was Tennessee, right?

some parents dont care, that is the problem. My daughter will be 18 soon and let her do that in public, she would not have any teeth left in her mouth. Dont get me wrong I dont abuse my daughter, but that is uncalled for at any age.

OMG...
You've got to be kidding me. No way would one of my sons every said anything like that....EVER. What the hell is wrong with those parents. Obviously they have lost all control...already. I agree, what is this world coming to???

Humm they are raising there kids different.

Besides it is not the kids fault what the parents taught it to say. So why should the child be whooped sorry wrong bottom that needs the whooping!!

I wouldn't "whoop" a two year old for saying that. She has no idea what it means, and she probably learned it from her parents. They are the ones who need to be whooped.


You don't swear in front of chidren and then punish them for repeating what they hear.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,her first words

I would have had a mouth full of soap, I can promise ya that!!!

well.... the way i see it when i was younger and i did something wrong i was backhanded. And if i went to make that same mistake again, i remembered how it felt. Its kind of like an invisible wall. It scared the crap out of me. lol. but sometimes i still did it anyways

that is soooo true, the child would have had to learn that from someone, things like that....they don't just make up.

Unfortunately, I have seen this all too often. I hope it's mainly the area and not everywhere!

The children learn it from what they see/hear. At school a few months ago I was helping out in the preschool classroom...one of the 3 year olds when he got pissed off or didn't get his way would repeatedly yell "F**k you teacher!" My jaw dropped the first time I heard this come out of his mouth. 3 yrs. old!!!

Ive been known to utter a few choice words while in traffic..... But my son, who is almost 16 knows that if he ever uttered a swear word around me......he would have to deal with a bar of soap in his mouth!!!!!!!

i grew up in a trailer most of my life. So did the rest of my family. Its not where you come from that makes you who you are, its what you do in life.

It's just wrong to swear in front of your children and then punish them for swearing. You have just lost any respect you may have had from them if you are a "do as I say, not as I do" type of parent; also known as a hypocrite.

If you think THAT's nuts, there's this-

About ten or twelve years ago, one of my cousin's daughters hopped onto my uncle's lap, gave him a kiss on the cheek and said, "I love you, you old ****!".

Even nuttier was the fact what she said had everybody in the room laughing like it was a well-crafted George Carlin (RIP, George) joke. And yeah- these people live near Nashville, Tennessee, too.

So yeah- I'd say that couple were some rather fine examples of trailer trash.

Well regardless it comes back to the parents and what the child has heard around them. Yeah they thought it was cute therefore the child will repeat it again and again.

You can fix that real easy by saying Heck no dodo or some other saying the child will pick upon it in a heart beat and forget the other words they were saying.

Been there done that I had a habit of saying F*** It!! Well until my son was 2 and blurted it out one day when a car pulled out in front of me and I had to hit my brakes as these famous words came out of the mouth of a 2 year old from the back seat. Hummmmmm well needless to say I started saying Fudge it!! instead only took a day or so and he followed right along.

And it was not till he was 17 that he said a curse word in front of me and turned beet red as he looked at me and said sorry. lmao

So it has nothing to do where you grew up or the style it is all within the morals of the parents.

I have seen poor kids with more manners then the ones living in the $500,000 dollar homes. So trailers or Mansions has nothing to do with how they talk it is what manners they were taught!!

I see it all the time... it unfortunate.. and it does make it worse when the parent or parents just laugh about it. Im sure they picked it up from the parents and it makes you wonder what else the child is seeing at home!

...and the sad part is that these parents have no idea of the damage that results. My daughter is divorced and struggles constantly with her son, now 6. We are reinforcing respect and appropriate behavior, while her ex and his wife have taught and encouraged the "I don't have to listen to you 'cause you're a B****", attitude. It's already effecting his relationship with his peers and teachers

I usually hear those words from the baby's mama not the baby.