Growing up, my sister and I weren’t allowed to use curse words. We couldn’t even tell each other to “shut up” without getting a sideways glance from our parents (imagine our delight when Black Eyed ...

Soap isn’t enough to clean these potty mouths. Parents are participating in the viral TikTok “bad word bathroom challenge” with over 88 million views featuring toddlers cursing like a sailor in the ...

Kids have taken up an anti-robot and anti-AI slang term. But some are treading carefully around the use of a slur — even against technology. (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: ...

Insults or mean-spirited remarks about people are actually harmful to a child's development — like firing off every verbal ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – It’s Parenting Connection Tuesday and 6 News is here for you with tips, strategies, and helpful reminders from child development experts on how we can be better parents and ...

We can learn a lot from Generation Z, specifically when it comes to language as they coin new slang words so frequently. But this millennial dad put his knowledge to the test as he attempted to speak ...

While substitute teaching at my favorite “high needs” middle school in April 2019, I asked my mostly Spanish-speaking first-language students, “If you say bad words, why and at what age do you think ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

You could be forgiven if you didn’t know the meaning of every word the tweens and teens in your life are using. With terms like “skibidi,” “6-7” and “41” becoming unavoidable for teachers and parents, ...