Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The days of washing your kid’s mouth out with soap because they said a curse word appear to be on the wane—at least according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new survey shows nearly half of parents think kids should never swear, while others say it depends on the word or situation.

Most parents try hard to protect their children from hearing swear words, and children are often punished or reprimanded when they use profane language. The federal government seeks to protect ...

Licensed psychotherapist Colette Brown vividly remembers the first time she heard her then 10-year-old daughter use the "F-word." "I was a little shocked and I was a little charmed," she tells ...

Your toddler is learning new words every day (yay!), yet hearing bad language escape from her lips can stop you dead in your tracks. A blossoming vocabulary is a point of excitement and pride for ...

The other morning, on the way to school, my eighth-grade niece was regaling me with stories about the costumes kids wore on Halloween. One classmate, she said, came dressed as a “sexy-ass rabbit.” I ...

TACOMA, Wash. — First there was the sound of 3-year-old feet running. Then a thud. Finally, Paul Nimmo heard a very audible swear word roll off his child’s tongue. After running to make sure his son ...