Where do kids learn to swear? Seriously

^My parents were very restrictive about me playing online games at age 15-17, my parents didnt even allow me to play 18+ games (just turned 19) until I AM 18

i should agree with you, jonex :)

My parents took a while to learn that violent video games made me nice and calm, thank god they realised it at some point. Kids with restrictive parents are getting more aggressive every year, it sickens me what kind of violence I hear about happening on the streets. Those kids don't play video games, they use violence in real life instead. It's sad to see that people still blame the cure for violence as the cause of violence. It's not that they learn violence from video games, aggressiveness has been around since the beginning of mankind and way before that time.

Yeah, as a kid growing up, the only bad word i knew was stupid and idiot until im 15

I lol'd at "parasites".

So true

TV and internet mostly. Some parents don't monitor at all what kind of influences their children expose themselves to. Maybe they're too busy, maybe they don't care, maybe they're not aware of what kind of nasty things there are in the wide world, the reasons are many.

Andparents, and family, and kids and teachers at school, and random people on teh street, and steamgifts forums, and facebook, and every other place on God's green earth. Seriously, it's to the point where you can't even go to church without hearing someone cuss. ANd if you have ever been somewhere where people weren't cussing o some extent, then my hats to you where do I go?

is that game still alive? also, the child-safe mode of some penguin club game? i dunno how kids can play these games without going insane about the restrictions.

Never heard of this game, whats the problem of it?

*late night fox news that their parents watch. or just late night shows. sans that, their peers.

+1 most of the children learn these things from their parents.

For kids, they're words for kids to express their anger etc... which isn't the right way...

You must've picked it up somewhere, I think. My parents never swore and neither did we. Certainly not at 8. There were a few in my class who were maybe a little older than you back then and had some sort of swear words at around the age 9 - 11, but there were not "actual" swear words that you would use as teen or adult.

Also, the first time I really got my exposure to swear words, was in my teens.

Swear words are not just words. Swear words carry a negative meaning (like insulting or profanity). If they were just normal, casual words that carried no baggage, people would not get offended by them and there would be no problem.

This.

"It's" everywhere, kids just have to pick it up.

Most of them dont even understand the meanings.

we learn from the world outside. have children and you'll see how they learn not only from you but also from other sources. until say 3 parents are the single most important source, but as soon as they go to infant school they learn from teachers and from friends. this is when you start losing control as a parent. it's pretty normal and somewhat positive. they must start thinking with their own head, they develop. you can hope they develop well and should definitely lead them in that direction, but whatever can happen. sometimes shit happens.

You act like Valve is the only company ignoring this issue.

Well behavior doesn't come with age or xp.

there is no possible way to implement a "working age verification" without a worldwide, mandatory internet real-ID passport system.

+1

No, respectfully I disagree! early childhood is pretty important and parents can and will screw up their children very easily. Either by paying too much attention and being kind to the kid or by exact opposite.

Hahahaha +1. Some people still live in the Middle Ages :D

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mozzies bit the crap out of my legs this summer, so i would like to disagree. vehemently. with force if need be.

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