At what age is it Ok to let your kids cuss, not to you but between friends?

[idrivea4banger]

I started cursing around 10 but never did it in front of my parents. Still won't curse in front of them to this day. I tell my son that if I ever hear him or see him cursing I'll smack him upside the head. Whatever he says around his friends is between them.

[Vertnut]

Kids tend to over cuss (like the over-cusser on the Ticket? LOL), and it sounds awful when you overhear them. It's just another way for them to express themselves, unless it's directed at you. When my girls were that age, it was okay to cuss "with" me, but not "at" me.

[Lone Star Performance]

Split parenting has got to be very difficult in these situations unless you and mom are open with each other and willing to parent as a team. At 15, I would say this is perfectly fine, but I have 2 boys, I don't know how I'd feel about it with girls?!

[Forever_frost]

It's up to you, you're the parent. If it doesn't bother you, fine. I didn't pick up cussing until the Army and still won't curse in front of my mom. If the mom has an issue, then let her mom yell at her about it since you two aren't together.

[Randy]

I have a 15yr old daughter who last year decided she wants to live with me which im totally happy about, we had a little rough patch to start out but things have gotten a whole lot better now that she's settled in. The issue inst really with me but her mother, I wont go into detail about her or her parenting skills or how she has not returned a dime of the child support they've been taking from me since she moved in. BUT my kid has a Fb account and she added her mom and in the middle of the night I get like 6 texts from her mom of screenshots of my kid's chats with her friends. She isn't starting any shit or causing trouble but just responding with "i look like ass" or "I cuss I've said Fuck before" or shit or whatever... in the span of 2 months there was a total of 5 curse words in the posts... and this is a huge problem with her mom. I told her i didn't care because at her age i was cussing with my friends. Am I wrong in thinking this is Ok?


I'm at work so please ignore spelling, punctuation or capitalization errors.


Thanks Randy