No Cussing Club 10,000 Strong
I first heard about McKay Hatch on the radio news while waiting to pick up my own teens from school. This is a pretty amazing story of a California 14 year old who has started a movement that can only be compared to the movie Pay It Forward.
In the eight months since he founded the “No Cussing Club,” he has attracted over 10,000 15,000 members in all 50 states and 24 foreign countries.
This teen is dedicating himself to stopping foul language in his school and community that I decided to visit his website at www.nocussing.com.
Today this teen appeared on Dr. Phil. I can’t believe the reaction of some people. While I am guilty of dropping the F bomb on occasion and a few other words that would have gotten my mouth washed out during my teen years, I do believe that ‘Not’ cussing is an act of respect. There are many people who are offended by cussing – so is it really too much to express an act of human kindness and refrain from cussing in certain environments?
My husband is really bad about cussing. In fact, I would hate to even guess how many times a day he swears. I’ve tried to point out to him many times that there are people who are easily offended by his choice of words and he should really try and practice restraint and control over his tongue.
While at a poultry show, he went off just jabbering away to a man who was there showing similar birds and from whom we later purchased a pair of show birds from. My husband was his usual self with the foul mouth – the man never said a word.
As a follow-up to our purchase, we phoned the man to find out the date of hatch for paperwork. It was at that time that we found out the man was a minister.
I’ve yet to let hubby live that one down and remind him of just how little we know about strangers and he should assume that every stranger is a minister unless they tell him otherwise.
Are you easily offended by cussing? Or do you find it just another part of language and let it go in one ear and out the other?
I’m not offended by cussing, but I am offended by people using cuss words on other people. Like if someone just plain cusses (maybe like your hubby) that’s one thing, but when people say, “You’re a %$@# whatever” or “That person is a dumb @$%” that makes me mad.
Cussing is just words, and words don’t bug me. Cussing at people or as descriptive of people is not ok. But then I don’t think you should even call other people stupid, dumb, stuff like that. Not that I don’t slip when I get really mad. But I try not too because words can be really hurtful.
When I worked in social work, with homeless youth, we had a rule at one of our safe houses, that you couldn’t make negative and also not useful comments to others or yourself. So, I couldn’t say, “Damn, I suck, I’m so stupid” and I also couldn’t say that about anyone else. It was a real lesson in control. Staff would be fired after three comments, and kids asked to leave the house after three. I really liked this rule because people were very open to learning better ways of communicating. Plus it was surprising just how programmed we are to talk like this – there were days it was tough no not say anything negative, and to me that shows there’s a problem overall with how we as a society act.
I am.
I don;t want to hear it. I don;t want to read it on your chest or your butt. I don;t want to hear it coming across your speakers that are too loud anyway.
I am not perfect and once in awhile I swear. I was, after all, a wild child in the 70s and then spent a stint in the military.Once in awhile I slip…very rare, never in public. Marc rarely swears either.
My dad used to say this poem..I always though he made it up…
Was there ever a brain so minutely small,
that must write swear words on a bathroom wall.
My dad taught me to use a wide enough vocabulary that swearing is largely unnecessary.