Jillian Michaels has some highly unusual rules for bad words

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Sara McGinnis

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Jillian Michaels and I seem to both agree that words only have as much power as you give them, but our take on who should be allowed to cures diverges after that.

The Just Jillian star, who is raising 5-year-old Lukensia and 3-year-old Phoenix with partner Heidi Rhoades, recently clarified her stance on bad words by telling E! News her kids are "not allowed to say shut up, they're not allowed to say God damn it, they're not allowed to call names. But they can say anything else inside the house to me."

"So they can say like, ‘I'm really f—king upset right now!' to me. ‘I don't want to take a f—king nap! This food tastes like s—t!' They're allowed to say all that to me because it doesn't offend me," she went on to say. "I'm trying to explain to them some people are offended, some people aren't.

"There are consequences if you use the words. You're young. You won't be able to go and play at so and so's house. You're going to get in trouble at school. But if you want to use it around me, you're welcome to."

Admitting part of her reasoning for allowing the cursing is she uses the "bad" words herself, Jillian Michaels added, "I try not to be hypocritical in my parenting…I want them to feel like I'm not being hypocritical."

I always find the conversation surrounding language to be an interesting one, because often the lines we draw are so different. In our house my husband and I use any words we feel like, but it's been made very clear to our sons they'll only be able to do the same when they're adults -- no sooner. I suppose that makes us hypocrites, but we just don't care.

Despite my own use of four-letter words I've discovered over the years I'm actually quite prudish when it comes to the way my kids speak. One of my boys even had a teacher who said "crap" and "shut up" were allowed in her classroom! I was shocked, and quickly clarified to my sons those words still aren't approved for kids in our family to use, either at home or in school.

Where do you draw the line on bad words? Are you hypocritical about it?

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