Is this the new 4-letter word?
So my 3-year-old son has been getting in a bit of trouble at day care lately … for saying (gasp!) a four-letter word …
HECK.
Yep, heck. Now at first, I thought maybe he shouldn’t be saying it so I didn’t really respond when his teacher told me (well, spelled out) what he had said and how she handled it (she put him in timeout).
But over the weekend, as we watched the kids’ movies Madagascar and Cars, I realized that they say “heck” in those movies (both of which they’ve actually watched at day care).
So what do you think? Do you think his teachers are overreacting or do you think “heck” should be considered a bad word?
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I agree with Linda on the words she described, but heck is fair game, I think. I vote overreaction. “What the heck!” My 4-year-old says it all the time. I always thought it was cute.
May be the day care should take a good luck at the movies that they make these children watch 
Sometimes they do over react though they mean well
I don’t think heck is a horrible word, but sometimes even “harmless” words don’t sound good coming from little mouths. In our house, the kids aren’t allowed to say “stupid,” “shoot,” “butt” … but what does Mommy say? “Crap.” Kind of a double standard. But now my girls actually correct me when I say these types of expletives.