> "I can't figure out why cursing is such a big deal"
Children soak up everything in their environment, and they try to emulate it.
One thing to remember about excessive cursing is that it tends to be fairly emotional. The problem isn't really that some guy said "fuck" in a MineCraft video; it's that such language is usually bundled with an attitude of "fuck creepers" and "I hate those shithead zombie pigmen" and "this game is being a bitch by not giving me enough diamonds". If you replaced those swear words with euphemisms (or even very clever expressions of the same emotions), the underlying problem still remains: the attitudes and emotions are not what I want my kid emulating.
Children soak up everything in their environment, and they try to emulate it.
One thing to remember about excessive cursing is that it tends to be fairly emotional. The problem isn't really that some guy said "fuck" in a MineCraft video; it's that such language is usually bundled with an attitude of "fuck creepers" and "I hate those shithead zombie pigmen" and "this game is being a bitch by not giving me enough diamonds". If you replaced those swear words with euphemisms (or even very clever expressions of the same emotions), the underlying problem still remains: the attitudes and emotions are not what I want my kid emulating.