The Bachelor alum Amanda Stanton has revealed why she lets her pre-teen children swear and just so happens to view cursing as "fine."
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Amanda -- who is mom to girls Charlie, 9, and Kinsley, 10 -- took her daughters to the Taylor Swift Eras tour in April and documented the amazing time they had at the concert on social media.
Amanda told her fans at the time it was "one of the most special nights" of her life with the kids, adding that it was a "core memory" and she'll be "crying forever" about it.
After the show, Amanda posted a video on TikTok and Instagram of Charlie singing the lyrics to Taylor Swift's song "All Too Well," which includes the F-word.
The video, which has amassed hundreds of thousands of views, shows Charlie and Amanda belting out together, "And you were tossing me the car keys, 'F-ck the patriarchy,' keychain on the ground, we were always skipping town."
While many fans praised the Charlie's boldness and girls' special bonding moment, mom-shamers chimed in and criticized Amanda for allowing her nine-year-old daughter to swear.
Amanda responded in her Instagram Stories, writing, "I know everyone has different opinions on this so I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me! I knew some people would get upset over the video of Charlie saying the F word while singing so I just wanted to share my take haha."
She went on to clarify, "I do not allow the girls to curse first of all. And if I caught them dropping F bombs during their day to day they'd be in trouble haha!"
But the Bachelor in Paradise alum explained, "Because we were at a concert and she was singing/the context, I was like whatever it's fine! But that instance aside... I curse! So generally I don't teach them it's bad to curse."
Amanda reasoned, "Because why would I teach them it's a terrible thing to curse only for them to see [my husband Michael Fogel] and I do it all the time? I don't ever want to instill rules for them that they see me break because then they won't take me seriously. So I really choose my battles when it comes to rules."
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Amanda also revealed that she taught her daughters context is important when dropping a curse word.
"Instead I teach them that it's not appropriate for KIDS to curse. Also to make sure I'm showing them the correct context of how/when to curse and how it's not ok to direct it at people ('f-ck you' calling someone a bitch etc they NEVER hear us say!)" Amanda shared.
"Not appropriate at school or work etc. but if they grow up and want to curse, I don't really care tbh I care that they are good humans and if they grow up to be good kind humans who say fuck a lot, I will gladly take it."
Amanda elaborated how her "reasoning behind this" is "just because" she wants "to prepare them for REAL life."
"And let's be honest, adults curse. If I tell them it's so so bad then they're going to grow up and be like 'mom needs to chill' and maybe question other things we tell them are bad," Amanda wrote.
"So for me, being mean to people is bad. Drugs are bad! Saying fuck is not bad (but it's not for kids) Again, this is just my take and I know not everyone will agree haha!"
Amanda and Michael were reportedly friends for two years before they began dating. Michael popped the question and the couple got engaged in December 2021.
Amanda married Michael in California in September 2022. Amanda called her wedding "pure magic."
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And during a late March Instagram Q&A with her followers, Amanda discussed potentially expanding her family. (She also scolded fans for constantly asking if she's expecting).
When a person asked if Amanda wants more babies, Amanda reportedly replied, 'Yes! I'm not going to lie, though. I'm so nervous. I thought we would have started trying by now, but maybe a few more months?!"
Amanda, however, elaborated how it's difficult to truly prepare for having a baby.
"But then I keep thinking, 'Will we ever feel 100 percent ready for another baby?!' Whenever it happens, I'll be so so excited, whether we're ready or not," Amanda said.
Amanda also reportedly shared that if she and Michael do try for another baby, she hopes to have a little boy "that is exactly like Michael."
Amanda shares her two daughters with ex-husband Nick Buonfiglio, whom she was married to from 2012 to 2015.
Amanda competed for Ben Higgins' heart on The Bachelor's 20th season just one year after getting divorced from Nick.
After Amanda introduced Ben to her girls and finished his season in third place, the Lani the Label founder looked for love on Season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise.
Amanda accepted a marriage proposal from Andi Dorfman's ex-fiance Josh Murray during the finale, but they called it quits on their engagement and announced their split in December 2016.
Amanda and Josh had a nasty public breakup, with Amanda calling Josh "the worst" and admitting she had mistakenly ignored friends' grim warnings about his personality and character.
Amanda decided to search for The One on television again by participating in Bachelor in Paradise's fourth edition the next summer, when former The Bachelorette star JoJo Fletcher's runner-up Robby Hayes pursued her.
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"Robby was somebody who was doing all these sweet things for me and saying that he wants a family and a future, and then we get off the show and all he wanted to do is party and not call me," Amanda told People at the finale taping.
Amanda subsequently got romantically involved -- off-camera -- with Tillow co-founder Bobby Jacobs and the couple went Instagram official in May 2018.
Bobby, however, appeared to break Amanda's heart just about one year later.
"I'm sad. I cried a lot... I was completely blindsided [by the breakup] and it just happened very suddenly," Amanda told her fans on social media in April 2019.
After a series of heartbreak and men letting her down, Amanda told Us Weekly in April 2020 that dating and getting married again weren't high on her list of "priorities" considering she had "so many other things to worry about" in her life.
But Amanda proceeded to date attorney Oren Agman in 2020 before finally getting involved with Michael in early 2021.
Amanda made her romance with Michael Instagram official during a vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in February 2021, Us reported.
"It's still new, so they're taking things slow and just enjoying their time together," a source told the magazine at the time. "He has met her daughters, of course, since they're with her half the time."
Amanda apparently fell hard and fast for Michael, because in August 2021, she said that she was hoping her man would pop the question soon.
When an Instagram user asked last summer when she wanted to get engaged, Amanda reportedly replied, "If we're being honest, yesterday."
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