Abso-F#&*ing-lutely!

We cuss.

Not just we, the parents, but we, the whole family. Something about being in the military and being told that even if you don't like the president you can't say anything negative, hence, no freedom of speech, makes you want to have unlimited freedom of speech for the rest of you life. We're hoping that our kids get cussing out of their systems at a very awkwardly young age and see unnecessary cussing for what it is in adolescence, immaturity. We don't go crazy or look for reasons to use profanity, we just don't believe in censoring the outside world or our reaction to it. If in a movie, a character says, "Holy Shit!" and the kids think it's funny and say, "Holy Shit!" our only response is to tell them that while they may find it funny to use that language in our house, they cannot use it in public or at school unless they are prepared for the reaction they are going to get. If it becomes an issue outside of the house, we will no longer allow it inside the house. So far so good.
It is our belief that there is no such thing as a bad word. A word is a word. What makes something bad is the connotations attached to it. A word that makes me uncomfortable is the spanish word for black. Our country assigned some pretty nasty connotations to variations of this word, but the word itself is just a fucking color! See what I mean.
Over the years words that were never meant to be "bad" were made that way by circumstance. The absolutely insane part of it, is that our kids can no longer say, "Butt" at school. I mean, really???? Butt?? When I was in school we couldn't say ASS.
Little Jimmy: "You're an ass!"
Teacher: "Jimmy, watch your mouth!"
Little Jimmy: "You're a butthead?"
Teacher: "ok."
My kids have been told they can't say, "hell" and I've even heard a teacher tell them not to say, "oh my god." They can say, "I wanted a PBJ, BUT my mom made me a ham and cheese," but they can't say, "butt" if it's spelled with two t's in their heads?? What if someone uses the word "but" as a constant argument with everyone around them and another child wants to make a literary joke and call them a "but-head?" Will this really be criminal in today's school environment? The idea makes my fucking ass twitch! We've equipped our children with code names. From now on, "butthead" is "bottomtop." We told them that only they would know what it really meant and they thought this was pretty damn brilliant. Unfortunately, it's kinda catchy and now my husband and I can't stop calling the kids and each other bottomtops. Try it it's fun. Even in the privacy of our own home we prefer bottomtop. It is my goal to make bottomtop as offensive as possible so that it will be prohibited by the time my kids graduate. Then the word "ASS" will have much more "bad word" capital! And that will be abso-fucking-lutely fan-damn-tastic!