How to get 7 year old to stop using potty talk at school?

The rewards system is a great idea. Maybe a star chart for everyday he doesn't do it. At the end of the week, he gets to choose a reward?

I think I would get a clear bowl or tube or something and put in it a bunch of marbles. I'd explain that there are so many marbles in there, each represent 5 cents or something (playtime, video-game time, favorite toys, etc), and that at the end of the week he gets those marbles. However, every time you get a call from the school, he has to remove 5-10 marbles depending on the seriousness of the word. Every day you don't get a call, you'll add a certain number (less than he has to remove if you get a call.) Maybe the action of having to remove the marbles and seeing that go down will help.

Otherwise, at this point I would tell him that the next time he uses potty talk then I'm coming to school with him. I can only imagine that he would be embarrassed by his mom coming to school with him like he's a little boy, and sitting by him reading a book during recess, etc, to make sure he doesn't say potty words.

I'd talk to the teacher and see if she/he has other ideas. A part of me just rolls my eyes and thinks it's the school's problem. I'll support them if they want him to go to detention or stay on a saturday or even summer-school. But these aren't SWEAR words, they're just kid potty talk, and they need to be the ones to control it since I control it at home. While I want to support the teacher, to me it seems ridiculous to punish him worse for something that I wouldn't be wanting to give a lot of attention to.

I mean, if my 4 year old said "butt" or "pee" to get a giggle, I'd tell her to stop or else, then she'd be put in a time-out, but I wouldn't take her bike away or ground her or even take favorite toys away. If she said it around friends to get a giggle, the best punishment would be to take her away from those friends right that instant and make her sit in a boring area and possibly even write out "I won't use potty words" 5-10 times, not to punish her at home where the friends wouldn't see and where it wouldn't remove that reward of making her friends laugh. This is a punishment that really needs to happen AT school, the moment it's happening.

I was a naughty 1st grader too and my mom would reward me every day that I didnt get in trouble at school. We had a green, yellow and red card system and every day that I would get a green card my mom would take me to the gas station so that I could get candy. For me that was a big motivator to be good because I LOVED candy. Is there something that your son really likes that you can give him when he does good?

Steps to appropriate discipline

1. Have a talk with him. Tell him that this language is not acceptable

2. Give him a warning. Tell him, "If you talk like that again, I will take away all of your toys."

3. Talk to his teacher. Tell her that if he talks like that again, to tell you

4. If the teacher tells you he is still acting like that, act very disappointed in him

5. When he comes home, tell him, "I got a call from your teacher. She says that you are still using potty talk. That is not allowed. I am going to take away ALL of your toys.

6. Take him upstairs to his bedroom. Have him sit on his bed while you put ALL of his toys into a garbage bag. Make sure you get ALL of them.

7. Tell him, "You can not have your toys back because you are using bad words. And if you continue to use potty talk at school, I will throw them away forever.

8. If he continues to use potty talk, put the garbage bag in the trunk of your car (make sure he is watching) and tell him, "I am going to throw your toys away forever because you are using bad words. If you promise to never use potty words again, I will give them back to you in a week." Once he promises, tell him if he behaves, he can have them back

9. He knows he is misbehaving. He is old enough to know that he is using bad words. Don't go easy on him!

10. He will want his toys back, so he will behave!

Its a phase. he'll start to become less interested in stupid stuff like that in another few months.. ENJOY :D

decipline , find different ways to decipline him..