The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound to ...be dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a toddler uses profanity, don't make a big deal about it. If you do, you give the child more power. After all, it's only a wo...rd--one that won't do much harm to anybody. In fact, if you think about it, a nasty word is a step up from hitting or biting someone. So look at it as a sign of growth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself ...and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you'll be doing the best you can...And save your parental giggling over mispronounced curses for after the children's bedtime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because we cannot control all that our children see, hear, and play, it is tempting to throw up our hands and do nothing. Although... we cannot do everything, we can do something, and this is to talk with our children and teenagers about unexpected encounters with inappropriate violence, sexuality, and profanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perh...aps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If George Washington were alive today, what a shining mark he would be for the whole camorra of uplifters, forward-lookers and pro...fessional patriots! He was the Rockefeller of his time, a promoter of stock companies, a land-grabber, an exploiter of mines and timber.... He was not pious. He drank whiskey whenever he felt chilly, and kept a jug of it handy. He knew far more profanity than Scripture, and used and enjoyed it more. He had no belief in the infallible wisdom of the common people, but regarded them as inflammatory dolts and tried to save the Republic from them.... He took no interest in the private morals of his neighbors. Inhabiting these States today, George would be ineligible for any office of honor or profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition--the oldest peopl...e tell me that they heard it in their youth--that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore.... If the name was not derived from that of some English locality,--Saffron Walden, for instance,--one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »