@shellydan8 I wouldn’t say my experience was similar or as heavy because I’m only Latin decent and I’m pretty white. But COD was when I first heard the word someone called me it and I thought it was also a “good” thing. And was overly excited to be called it. My mother was in the other room and heard me shouting about how excited I was to be called this word. Found out years later what it meant but was told in that moment to never say it again and just didn’t know why.
Telling the child that it isn’t a good to say will most likely put a stop to the use of the word. Context may help the kid stop saying it.
1: This is my opinion: I’d recommend to explain why bad words are “bad” Fu
, Sh, God damn(if you wanna include that.) In my opinion they are not bad but vulgar and used to describe situations or when you get hurt. of course you can say someone is a sh**head but you would be calling them a poop head if you made it more “child friendly.”
2: words like Cu** bit** a**hole are used more to describe people and are/can-be more hurtful than the words above.
3: racial/religious/ethnic slurs would be at the top they are bad for one reason only and that is because it describes a collective(negatively) without regard to who the people actually are. If racial slurs were to only describe individuals without describing their ethnic religious, or racial background I don’t think they would be called racial/religious/ethnic slurs just cuss(words) and would be on grounds with fu** or cu**
I may be wrong and if my views are distorted someone please comment and I’ll edit and fix them accordingly
Edit: Grammar
Edit 2: context for after I learned of some slurs
Edit 3: word changed from slur to cuss as there can be a distinction.