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I Vividly Remember The First Time I Swore At My Kid

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franckreporter/E+/Getty ImagesI didn’t swear in front of my kids for the first 12 years of being a mom. I swore all the time before becoming a mom so this was a deeply meaningful sacrifice on my part. To give up profanity was, at that point, like being asked to give up at least 40% of my vocabulary. How would I convey excitement, fear, fury, love, joy? It felt impossible at first but this was a promise I made to myself. I was young when I became a mom, just 21 years old. I felt like people would expect me to be profane and immature because I was profane and immature. I vowed to hide this from...