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Our everyday language is not English anymore; it is a heterogeneous mixture of archaisms, shortened words or even slang. Repetitive words heard a hundred times per day, phrases that became meaningless because said as a brain impulse.
As soon as your child articulates his first word, as a parent, you feel like a new era has just begun and you are at the top of the world, one more time. Now you know that your kid is in a position to understand words and better, repeat them so you have to be extra careful of what you say. Don’t you agree?

Actually it is not what you say to your children but more what you mean by choosing the specific words to explain yourself.

I have always been taught to “roll” my tongue 7 times in my mouth before saying anything. It may sound awkward to some of you but just imagine if you actually applied this rule in practice; how much less stupidities would you hear in a day from people surrounding you and the media.

Of course as an exemplar parent, I’ve tried to apply the “best of” my experiences as a child and remember how my mother and my teachers wanted me to use words, and I’ve passed it on to my two daughters.
And “rolling” their tongues 7 times in their mouth made them learn the importance of words. Their dialogues became quickly very precise and consistent. They had learned the power of the words sooner than expected, for the youngest maybe a little bit too soon; imagine a 6 years old girl telling you “Daddy, it is inadmissible that you wear this shirt again today, what will your coworkers think?”. Wasn’t I referring to the power of words?

When it comes to dealing with bad words, as mentioned in this very charming post in bad words – good dad, the same weight applies also to these specific words. As we know how to not abuse words to communicate a thought, a state of mind or just a wish, we know that if we ever use a bad word it will be because any other word would not be appropriate for the particular occasion. But on the opposite, the misuse of a bad word could easily drive to a stage of intellectual “laziness” where the brain would be too lazy to search for the correct term and as a result words would rapidly lose their power.

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