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Student Fined $637 in Penalties for Potty Mouth

by Mary Beth Sammons, Posted Feb 1st 2011 3:30PM

Time out for cursing at school? Try a hefty fine. Credit: Getty Schools and parents across the country always seem to struggle with cleaning up potty mouths. But administrators at a Texas high school may have found a way to eliminate ...Texas high school says you curse in class, you pay.
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Say What?! ParentDish Team Comes Clean on Cursing

by Honey Berk, Posted Jul 14th 2010 1:00PM

You kiss your mother with that mouth? Illustration by Christopher Healy
Recently, we met a woman who revealed to us her best-kept parenting secret: For 30 minutes each week, in the privacy of her home, she lets her 8- and 11-year-old kids use ...
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School Asks Cops to Fine Foul-Mouthed Students

by Melissa Kossler Dutton, Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:50AM

Students at a Windsor, Conn., high school caught dropping the F-bomb and using other curse words will soon learn a new four-letter word: fine. The Windsor High School principal has asked police officers assigned to the building to charge swearing ...
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New Study Says Swearing is Good

by Brett Singer, Posted Jul 17th 2009 2:00PM

Do you curse in front of your kids? Photo: sxc.hu
CNN Medical Associate Producer Caitlin Hagan has a blog entry where she talks about a new study just published by Dr. Richard Stephens at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Apparently the ...
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McDonald's Kidz Bop CD Pulled for Kid-Unfriendly Language

by Brett Singer, Posted May 15th 2009 6:00AM

Is McDonald's teaching kids to swear? Photo courtesy of sxc.hu. Some Alabama parents are upset about a track on the Kidz Bop 6 CD that is being given away with McDonald's Happy Meals. They say the supposedly kid-friendly version of Gavin De ...
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Tori Spelling won't clean up her potty mouth

by Sandy Maple, Posted Apr 20th 2008 5:04PM

Actress Tori Spelling, who is expecting her second child in June, believes that swearing in front of children is fine as long as it is done correctly. Apparently, it's all about the tone of your voice. Angry and loud F-bombs are bad, sweet little ...
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When %&$*# comes from your child's mouth

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:00PM

She was nearly four-years-old and my daughter was ready to blow. She was furious at me for hurrying her out the door when clearly she didn't want to be hurried. She was sitting at the top of the stairs, face pinched in fury, while I stood at the ...
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Nun says the seven words

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 10th 2007 1:57PM

I know George Carlin went to Catholic school; I wonder if he ever encountered Sister Kathy Avery? Carlin had a big hit in the early '70s with his Seven Dirty Words routine. In Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, the principal of St. Clare of Montefalco ...
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Going to town

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 13th 2007 11:31AM

Yesterday, Sara had a appointment with her doctor, so I picked up the kids early after school and we caught the streetcar downtown. We got to the Union Square area and joined the throngs of people headed up Powell street. There were people of every ...
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Profanity filter for the internet

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Jan 13th 2007 10:02AM

Anyone who's read my personal blog knows that I'm prone to cursing like a sailor. When it comes to my 2 1/2 year-old, however, I try and curb my tendency to blaspheme, and prefer others would, too. For those of you whose kids are a little older and ...
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