There are no swear jars at this woman’s house.
Mother of two Lucinda Hart believes that kids should be allowed to curse freely while at home.
The 47-year-old fiction writer permits her young daughters Rafi and Aelfrida to tell her to “f- -k off” when they please — but only during their lazy days at their Cornwall, England, abode.
“I do not censor words with my children. That is not what language is for,” she declared in a report for the Sun. “I love language [and] it’s natural to swear.”
Hart noted that she only allows the girls to use bad language while in private, and never in a public setting.
“They know the invisible boundaries,” the single mom said of her children’s behavior.
She also doesn’t like to mince words when it comes to human anatomy and refuses to use euphemisms such as “tinkle” to go to the bathroom — having taught Rafi and Aelfrida the proper names for genitalia at a young age.
Her girls knew clinical terms for the reproductive organs, including “vagina,” “penis,” “sperm” and “egg,” at a very early age.
“I’m not going to make up words. Anatomy is beautiful,” Hart said.
“And I say to the girls, ‘Don’t say poo, say s- -t or crap‘,” she reiterated. “A person at work would always say, ‘Oh sugar’ instead of swearing. I just think say it or don’t say it at all.”
The author of “The Beautiful Blue” has even had talks with Rafi about the dirtiest word of all — “f- -k” — and its origins.
Historians have found the earliest reference to the curse in 16th-century works and has origins steeped in Germanic and English roots.
“To me, it’s not a big deal. It’s like an extra bit of punctuation. There are bound to be people who are disapproving,” Hart shrugged. “I know that my girls are great.”
Hart has faith that her children would never curse in front of mixed company, such as at school.
Nevertheless, she advises other parents to also not restrict their kids from using dirty and risqué language.
Hart believes that the only important thing is that one’s children are well-behaved in public spaces and are kind to others.
“There are so many things to worry about as a parent — don’t worry about things that don’t matter,” she said. “Language has been changed and wrecked in so many ways but these old words are pretty much the same.”
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