Thank you for your words. I spoke with my son today during our car ride when he said oh my gosh and I told him his teacher doesn't like it when he says that. He told me home is ok school is not. So he understands but has a slip up every now and then. If the teacher is still being rude to him I will schedule a meeting with her

Thanks for your opinion.

We did have a chat with him.

We told him these are harmless words. It is our opinion that words hold as much power as you give them.

We told him they are not bad words but that the teacher doesn't like them and so he should avoid them.

He said ok however he is a child and often forgets.

Thank you. (:

>Play a game at home: dole out 4 quarters to everyone. every time some one says it at home they have to put a quarter in the jar. Last one with a quarter gets the pot

Good idea. I will see what works with him.

>Why should you have to stop saying it at home? You shouldn’t

I agree but I also want him to have a good experience in school.

Thank you I will speak with the teacherm

Yes he seems visibly stressed as of lately. I will try to work with the teacher.

Thank you for your words. We will work with him on not saying that phrase as it may hurt other kids feelings and the teacher's feelings as well. Maybe he will be more sympathetic to this reasoning. He often says oh my gosh as a replacement since his teacher told him to say that instead. So it's not so much the phrase oh my god more so the word god that is the issue with the teacher. As she has told him to say oh my goodness or oh my gosh as a substitute.

We will try to tell him to say oh man, or oh wow as a substitute.

I can say it's my fault as I often say oh my god, well.. "OH MY GA" is the actual phrase I use at home mainly when talking to my mother as it's her favorite phrase. So my guess is that our son hears me and as kid do they mimic their parents.

I will work on not using this phrase around him.

>He might be a bit too young to understand the distinction between bad words and words that aren't appropriate in certain settings

Yes. We have told him which words are vulgar, shit fuck, bitch etc, not told him directly but he hears it on the tv, movies, in the street and he asks about it and we tell him we do not use those words. We just never got around telling him the word god would be an issue. Mainly because I never thought it would be.

>I believe going over the teachers head from the get-go would exascerbate things, and worsen your kids relationship with their teacher.

This is true

>I'd request a meeting with the teacher to discuss things, and see if they can't be reasonable.

If it happens one more time I will choose this option. Thank you for your advice.

>Have you tried asking the teacher (respectfully) to try removing the stick from their ass?

I have not, I am debating whether to do this or not. Since we fear the teacher will hold it against our son.

>It's perfectly acceptable to say oh my god in a public school.

I agree

>Your teacher giving your kid shit for it is what we call, forcing their religion on your child, and is not acceptable.

I agree, this is how I feel. She is forcing her beliefs onto him. Something we don't do as our atheist beliefs are our own and if he chooses religion in the future that will be his option.

>I retrained myself to say "Oh my Gosh".

He often says this instead of saying oh my god.

Thanks for your input i'm sorry that happened to you.

>hopefully next year his new teacher will focus more on teaching

Thank you. I hope for this as well.

>Letting him say it at home is a mistake

I agree with this statement however it is our belief that those are not bad words that being said we have to teach him where and when he can say certain things.

>Teachers talk and pass their biases all the way up.

This is his mother's fear. That the teacher will hold a grudge against him and give him a hard time all around.

He is five and when we say oh my god at home he acts like his teacher and screams DON'T SAY THAT ITS BAD WORDS. So my guess would be just that. We have told him its ok to say it at home but to try to not say it in school. But he's a kid and kids forget and make mistakes.

I'm not sure I ask him and he doesn't say. I guess discipline might not be the right word. He says they take him to the side and say "STOP SAYING THAT, DONT SAY THAT"

My kid keeps getting sick. Cough, fever, runny nose, body chills. Negative covid though. He gets sick in school. Then has to miss a few days.

Kidnapping charges? Doubtful. The obvious choice is to stay in the uk with your family, coming to mass and spending the winter sleeping in your car with a child is not a logical choice.

You're better off staying in the UK than coming to Mass to spend the winter sleeping in your car with a child.

Town Fair Tire of course.

Geico

I'm surprised nobody has sued them for lying about going out of business. The little I recall from my college classes is that this practice is illegal and stores have been sued over it.

I was there Friday. Had The Tully it was amazing