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When Your Preschooler Uses Inappropriate Language in Public

My four-year-old keeps using bathroom words at preschool pickup and all the other parents are staring and I feel like they think I'm raising a wild child.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent struggles with the gap between their child's developmental need to test boundaries through language and social expectations of proper behavior.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Early childhood 3-6 — play language boundaries?”

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