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A (0:00)
This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 192, sitting here with Echo Charles. We have got some questions, life questions, relationship questions, leadership questions, raising children questions, jujitsu questions, working out question. We've got a bunch of questions and we get them every week and we answer them every week. So let's get into it. First one, first question.
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How do you approach swear word usage by kids? Did you allow your children to swear and if so, from what age, in what circumstances did you swear around your kids? Also, how do you teach children that there is evil in the world and that it can be in unfair place? We have two boys, 7 year old and 6 year old.
A (0:51)
So swearing. I didn't swear in front of my kids and I actually didn't swear really in front of my wife. I still don't like get crazy swearing in front of my wife but I do swear more around my kids now because they're adults and what have you. Don't get me wrong, because I did swear all the time in the teams, like totally. Every third word was an F bomb or some other profane word. And I will still swear at this time with the boys, you know, we're doing whatever. But when I'm interacting with someone on anything out outside of like my kind of direct crew, then I, generally speaking I don't really swear. And now, you know, when you're raising your kids you might your kids be swearing, you know, at some point. I remember one time I took my, I was out camping with my son for his, maybe his like 8th or 9th birthday or something like that. May know maybe his 10th birthday. Anyways, he's with his buddies and I'm in the RV and his buddies and him are in the tent on the beach. And I woke up early because we're surfing and it's cold, but I, I walk over to their tent and I can hear that they're already up and they're like swearing and I'm kind of like okay, you know, it's the boys, you know, the 10 year old boys get wild and I unzip the tent and I look in there and they're like, they're like horrified. Yep. And I go, put your wetsuits on. And they were like, oh, you know, it's one of those moments. So you know, again it's like a little relationship thing, right when you get all bent out of shape because your kid said a bad word. So I don't think you need to get crazy with it. But they definitely need to understand that it's Sub optimal communication methodology. Right. If you have to swear all the time, it's. There's better ways to get things done. And I would err on the side of not swearing, but you know, I don't make a huge deal out of it. You know, more like you don't want your kids to swear all the time. They just need to recognize that it's not a good look. Right. It's not a good way to gain respect. Not that occasional F bomb at the right moment, can't get the attention of someone again. But if you're swearing all the time that it won't get anyone's attention. So, yeah, that's kind of that as far as teaching them about evil in the world, I think it's just a slow exposure to reality. Like what you see in the news. What you see in the news, I think you expose to them over time. And you kind of start off with lesser evil. You start off with, you know, there's people stealing things and people being people hurting other people, people fighting other people, people hurting animals, people doing some kind of sadistic behavior. Then abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, you know, sexual abuse. You got to tell kids about this stuff. And then you get into like murders. And, you know, you can first explain that, you know, there's a crime of passion where the husband's mad at the wife and he kills her. And then you can start talking about serial kill, like so. But again, you kind of have to do this over time where they can understand and they're not overwhelmed by it. It's wrong to not let them understand that these things are in the world. But it's also wrong to expose them at a young age when they can't really comprehend it. So I think you got to do exposure therapy. Kind of just start off slow and grow from there. You know, I. I've talked about this before, but I think one of the best things that ever happened to my son was we saw a. Again, we were surfing early in the morning. We saw a tweaker at 5 in the morning, just as the sun's coming up, or six in the morning just as the sun's coming up. And this guy's just tweaked out on drugs and he's being arrested and he's acting totally insane, screaming. He's got the spit hat on and he's got like ripped pants and no shirt. He's all beat up and just dirty and he's saying crazy things. And my son, again, at this time he was probably like 7 or 8 and he's like, dad, what is going on with that guy? And I said, that guy's on drugs. That's what drugs does to you. That left a mark. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I. I think that you have to kind of do exposure therapy with your kids. So they. And, you know, it's. Another good thing is, like, movies. You know, the rated R movie thing. You. How old were your kids when you let it start to let them watch rated R movies?
