Husband swears (however he stopped) but son already picked up the F word.How can I stop my son from saying the word?

Hi moms. Yesterday, my son swore in a bus full of people when his dad yanked him from his seat (roughly) as we were getting off. I felt so embarrassed as I don’t swear at all and today a teacher at nursery told me in confidence that 3 other children have been swearing as they have heard it from my son.I took away his favourite toys and don’t plan on giving them to him until I see changed behaviour.I don’t care if it takes 3 months. Is this extreme?What else can I do to explain that we shouldn’t use that word? I have explained it’s a bad word and other parents won’t want to arrange play dates because they won’t want their kids emulating his behaviour.He is 3.5,very smart and understands everything.

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Taking toys away has no link to the swearing so won't achieve anything.

Just ignore it when he says it. They usually forget quickly.

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Maybe a questionable approach… but I’ve had moderate success ‘correcting’ my daughters swears to more appropriate substitute words (‘fiddlesticks’, ‘sugarplums’ etc… works best if she thinks the words are funny to say.)

(I also correct myself when in front of her, which gets me in the habit too… she totally got it from me; I didn’t even realise how much I swear before now… 🫠)

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