Do You Kiss Your Mother With That Mouth!

Ben, my darling, devilish eight year old, has a very bad potty mouth. He has had a very bad potty mouth for as long as I can remember. I do not, nor have I ever condoned his language deficiency. I have always tried to keep the bad words to a minimum (those damn bad drivers always test me though!), the hubs, not so much. My older son has had no problem hiding the swears from my delicate ears, Ben just doesn't seem to care. Ben would be perfectly at home on a pirate ship! His words are salty and he employs them liberally. It is obvious that he derives great pleasure from his cursing habit. His lips curve lovingly around each sound. The words drip from his mouth like honey. His face lights up with pleasure as he utters the offensive syllables. I must give him some credit as there have been some half-hearted attempts on his part to clean up his mouth. Instead of saying a word in its entirety, he will change a letter here or there so that the sound is the same, but he's not saying the actual word. For example, he believes that if he says "shi" instead of "shit" he's golden. So now he will say, with an absolutely angelic look on his face, "that is such bull shi!" It's enough to make a mom puckin crazy!