Profanity for Children I refrained from swearing near my young children, not precisely for their sakes, but as much in love for the darling Lutheran couple next door who, already weighed by sorrow for our unsavedness would be further dismayed to hear the Lord’s name taken in vain. Perhaps, too, it wasn’t really my genius, lacking early conviction. We sea kayakers are perhaps the less salty dogs. Later, I did offer the kids three-score Elizabethan epithets for the self-indulge