It happens to the best of us, your sweet child drops the f bomb, and your cheeks go red, or if you're like me you laugh your booty off! Recently I had a big bad word problem, that was the opposite of adorable.
My son Robert, has quite the mouth on him, he tells me things like he is calling the police on me, I am going to jail, I'm stupid, an idiot, a villain, lots of odd things, but mostly he just tells me I am a bad woman when he isn't happy with me, and I am a good woman when he is happy with me, that I can live with. Up until this point we had been giving him timeouts, taking toys/screen time away, and explaining to him about using nice words or explaining his feelings when he was upset. Then he started saying something I could not live with him saying, literally every time this came from his mouth I cringed...Puss. Puss. I have no idea where he got it from (I'm assuming cartoon network) but all of a sudden it was your a puss, dads a puss, Asher is a puss. We did what we had always done timeouts, privledges taken away, explaining that was a bad word, and still he continued. It not only continued it got worse...think add a y to the end of that word...yeah PUSSY. My seven year old was running around calling people pussies! I was horrified! Again the same discipline as always, nothing worked. I finally got to the end of my rope, and I told him "Robert if you say that word one more time I am going to wash your mouth out with soap". I honestly do not believe in doing this, soap is full of chemicals and is essentially poison if swallowed, it can cause stomach cramping and dihareea. That was not something I ever imagined first off saying to my child, but secondly actually doing. Yet there I was about ready to, at the end of my rope, desperate. Then he said it, he said it that one last time, he was testing me, he wanted to see if I really would make good on what I was telling him, and I did. Well sorta. We use a product in our home called Theives, it is an all porpose product, they make it a mouth wash, toothpaste, breath spray, cleaning solution, everything! It is extremely good for you, it is made with 7 different herbs and theives used it during the black plague to rob bodies of the infected, without getting sick, it boosts your immune system and is antibacterial, it is awesome! But guess what?...It tastes HORRIBLE!! As I grabbed my naughty little 7 year old with a dirty mouth, to head to the soap, I spotted it, I grabbed the breath spray squirted a shot in his mouth and set him back in timeout. Let's just say he was disgusted and I have had the pleasure of NOT hearing Puss or Pussy come out of his mouth since. I call it bad mouth spray and now its my secret weapon.
What do you do when your sweet child gets a sailor's mouth?
