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Wales Online
Wales Online
Emma Dunn & Daniel Smith

Mum says it's OK for your kids to tell you to 'eff off'

Meet the mum who lets her kids swear all the time at home - including telling her to "f*** off". Lucinda Hart, an author, believes language shouldn't be censored.

So she lets daughters Rafi, nine, and Aelfrida, six, say what they like in private. Lucinda, 47, says the girls - who were born via IVF - know the "invisible boundaries" and don't swear in public.

But the air in their home in Mullion, Cornwall, is often turned blue. Lucinda, a single mum, said: "I do not censor words with my children. That is not what language is for.

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