Ms. Rachel may be the pinnacle of children’s education these days, but even she has a slip up when it comes to cursing in front of her kids.
During an appearance on the Thursday, August 7, episode of Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast, Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Accurso), 42, admitted she swears in front of her 7-year-old son, Thomas. She does it, however, in a nonchalant way.
“OK, so my new thing is spelling swears. I say, ‘Holy S-H-I-T.’ And Thomas spells, so he’s like, ‘Why are you spelling s***? So it’s not useful, but I keep spelling it and it doesn’t help him,” she laughed to Kelce, 33, who said she liked the idea.
“I feel like, that’s as if when we were younger and I’d be, like, ‘H-E-double hockey sticks,’ because I wasn’t allowed to say hell, you know? I feel like it landed a little softer. I liked that. No, I like it,” Kelce, who admitted she has a potty mouth, told Ms. Rachel.
The children’s media mogul, who also shares baby daughter Susannah with husband Aron Accurso, added that her use of curse words really emerges when she’s gaming.
“No, I do [curse], especially, like, when I used to play Super Mario Brothers, that’s when it would come out,” she said.
Kelce asked her if she was competitive, to which Ms. Rachel replied, “Nooo, but with Super Mario Brothers, it’s just, like, you fall into that hole and you’re just, like, yeah. I feel like swears don’t sound great coming out of my voice, though, that’s part of it.”
Kelce noted that having young children in the house lessens the opportunity to curse, but if she does slip up, she tends not to acknowledge it.
“Every so often one will pop out, and they really do not happen often, which is hilarious, considering how often I use them,” Kelce said. “But every so often, one will happen, and I have a moment of, yeah, I’m just not gonna acknowledge that one, because I do think it feeds it a little.”
Ms. Rachel said her son is a “detector.”
“He’s rooms away and he’s like, ‘Did I hear s***? What happened?’” she explained.
Kelce said her daughters with husband Jason Kelce — Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finn, 4 months — tend to pick up more of the “shut ups,” “stupids” and “hates,” as those are not words they allow in their home.
“If anyone says the word ‘stupid,’ someone in the house is going to be like, ‘Did you just say? Who said stupid?’ And you’re like, ‘Wasn’t me, it was her.’ Because [those are] the words they latch on to. But they will not latch on to the grown-up words the same way anymore, which, I think, I don’t know if it’s a brag or what, but they’ve been so desensitized by the usage of them in our house that they’re just like, ‘That’s not exciting anymore.’”
Ms. Rachel noted that was a “good tip,” and shared that her family also tries to avoid the word stupid.
“Once in a while, I’ll be like, ‘That’s stupid.’ And Thomas is like, ‘We don’t say stupid,’” she admitted.
Ms. Rachel is a beloved children’s educator and has amassed millions of followers thanks to her “Songs for Littles” YouTube channel, which features playful, research-backed videos for early childhood development.
