*#%$! says my pre-schooler
In Where’s My Damn Juicebox? (great headline) Core Knowledge Blog looks at the research on young children’s growing vocabularies:
Children are swearing at an earlier age and more often than children did just a few decades ago, according to Timothy Jay, a psychology professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. “By the time kids go to school now, they’re saying all the words that we try to protect them from on television,” says Jay. “We find their swearing really takes off between (ages) three and four.”