human
We are having an intervention for a girl who uses swear words constantly. How can we make her stop saying swear words, like bitch and getting in to fights, outside of punishing her?
assistant
Well you might want to hear about the research on how children develop good language use, and the stages of language development. Basically we see children learn language like a machine -- they have to just do things over and over, and also change things up in order to get what they want. So if you want to use fewer swear words, you’ll probably want to practice, just like a child, so that you don’t get stuck at the ‘S-word stage’.