I'm An Ex-Paramedic. I Teach My Kids To Swear In This 1 Specific Situation

Stock image of a young boy shouting.A former paramedic has opened up about the “genius” reason why she teaches her kids to swear if they ever find themselves in a very specific – and dangerous – situation.Nikki Jurcutz, who runs the popular Instagram account Tiny Hearts Education and is based in Australia, shared a social media post in which she shared the rules she teaches her kids as an ex-paramedic.These include not eating in the car (due to the choking risk) and another more controversial tip: “If someone grabs you, yell: ‘I don’t fucking know you’.”Her reasoning was that swearing “grabs attention” and makes “it clear it’s a stranger” to passersby. But some weren’t impressed with the advice.Some parents couldn’t get on board with encouraging kids to swearOne commenter said: “I usually love these posts and I hate to go against the grain but I just cannot get behind the swearing one.“A few reasons but the main one being my kids aren’t allowed to use that language and I feel there would be a fine line between when they’d use it, here in this context or playing with others at the park/kindy/school?”They continued: “There’s no way I could explain to my children it’s only to be used when at risk. I feel as though I could use an alternative like ‘get lost I don’t know you’.”Another parent thought the tips were “great” but wondered what age range the swearing advice might apply to, as they weren’t sure their four-year-old would understand that she’s allowed to swear in one situation but not others.The rule turned out to be so divisive that Jurcutz shared a second post in which she offered more context on why she teaches her kids to swear. ‘We hear kids screaming and crying on the daily ... but we don’t hear little kids swearing’“If someone ever tried to grab them, I want their response to be automatic. My kids know to shout ‘I DON’T FING KNOW YOU!’” the first aid educator said.She does this for a few reasons, mainly that “no one can ignore swearing, it makes people look” and “no one will mistake ‘I don’t know you’ for a tantrum”.She explained in the video: “We hear kids screaming and crying on the daily, that is the normal part of our environment, but we don’t hear little kids swearing. If your child was to yell this out, I’d immediately stop what I was doing, I would be looking up because swearing is odd, and it would grab my attention.”The parent said she even practices saying the phrase with her kids “because in a real moment, if you’ve never prepared your child, they won’t know what to do”.She concluded that children now make up 38% of trafficking victims worldwide (a statistic from the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons). “Your child only gets seconds to react. Give them the words. Practice the scenario,” she said. “That one line could be the difference between someone walking by… and someone stepping in to save them.”In response, one parent said: “Can picture my child really taking advantage of this for fun to a stranger walking by minding their own business.”Others said it was “smart” and a “great idea”.One parent noted: “At first when I saw that in the previous post I was taken aback until I realised…yeah that would definitely grab my attention and it makes sense. I will be teaching it to my kids 100%.”Related...If You Ever Need To Call An Ambulance For Your Child, You Should Know ThisThis Mum Wants You To Stop Teaching 'Stranger Danger' (And She Might Have A Point)A Child Went Missing. This 'Looking Loudly' Method Helped Her Mum Find Her

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