What's the best advice you could give a 10 year old sister?

My 10 year old sister is always using profanity, and I want her to have a good vocabular. The fcat is coming up and I want her to pass it, but with her like this I don't think she's going to do good. I do believe in her, but I'm just worry.What's the best advice you could give a 10 year old sister?
Explain to her that God is watching her and that he doesn't like little girl's using curse words tell her that he doesn't like cursing because, cursing is ugly, and God don't like ugly.


Good luck!


She will be all right, she has you that loves her tell her that she will understand.


Please don't worry so much!


God Bless you!What's the best advice you could give a 10 year old sister?
Dont worry too much about her passing her fcat tests. Even though she uses profanity a lot, she prob still has good vocabularity skills she's not showing.





As for her cursing a lot? When I was about 10-14 I began doing that also. It's just a phase, but my brother used to tell me that I sounded trashy when I cursed a lot. It got me out of the habit.
The best way for a big sister or big brother to influence their younger siblings is to live by example. So don't swear, and explain to her why.





She needs to see you do things that are in opposition to the ';crowd';. So if there are things in your life that you do, where, say, etc...that are just to be ';cool';, identify them, and talk real honestly to your sister about it.





Say something like, ';hey...you know I have been putting my hair up like so and so because it looks so cool on her. It doesn't really look good on me..but I want her to like me. That is pretty silly isn't it. I mean...I am not her...I am me!'; Then ask her...';do you ever find yourself following the crowd to be cool?';





You have to turn your back to the crowd to lead the orchestra!!
You could just be very harsh with her and tell her that unintelligent people use profanity because they don't have the brains to think of different words. Or you could just set the example and used elevated diction and make sure she pays attention. If her friends are using bad words then she probably wants to as well...


but I think we all go through this kind of phase. I know I used a lot of swear words when I was in jr. high because everyone did, but by high school I toned it down because all the stupid kids used words like that and all the smart ones actually made decent arguements about things they disagreed it. She will probably get over if with age.


Also, parents can punish her for using those words!
Isn't it your parents responsibility to not allow profound language in the house?





Other than that she needs some positive role models. Someone she respects and admires who can influence her in positive directions. (if she's like any 10 year old I know... it would be someone that an older sibling would hate... you may have to pretend to dislike this role model...for your sister to consider her as a influence to her life.)