I just had to wash my DD3's mouth out with soap (update pg 4)

[Planogirl]

I'm sorry but this is funny. I think it would hilarious if her Daddy said it and she promptly ordered him to wash his mouth out with soap. Kids!

 

[Kermit]

LOL. Mine are too young to use bad words, but I know it's coming. I have a friend who gives her kids a spoon of vinegar. They can swallow it, since it's food, but it's gross.

I used to be a nanny for a 3-year-old who learned a bad word. After that, when he dropped something, he would say, "I think I need to say **** now."

 

[peacefulgirl]

LOL, what a lil sass she is LOL. Oh ya soap her up ! LOL

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Hang in there!! Sure hope your night gets better.

 

[tw1nsmom]

I haven't washed my childrens' mouths with soap....yet. For me it would be more about attitude and defiance rather than the actual word.

When I was a child my mother washed my mouth out with soap for calling my brother a pig. Of course I didn't just say it once. I kept saying it."Your a pig, pig, pig. Your a pig, pig, pig, pig, pig ,pig." Well, my mom heard me and told me to stop. I did it again and she said she would wash my mouth out with soap. She went around the corner and I started whispering pig, pig...and she came running with the dish soap. She eventually caught me and it's a moment and taste I'll never forget.

With DS it's the word "baby". When he gets angry/frustrated he screams "YOUR A BABY!!" It doesn't happen very often, and so far a time out has him in tears of remorse immediately. However, if it continues and/or the timeouts don't work, he'll be tasting soap too.

 

[Cass]

Who is she hearing "Oh ****" from? you might want to wash their mouth out too for saying it in front of her LOL

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh because that is just how my youngest daughter was. I tell you, it got better when she turned four.

Hang in there, it will get better!

I sure hope so, whew!!

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Jeez.. You guys would all have a field day with my 4 year old twins. When they get tired they can say some really choice words.....

I am afraid there wouldn't be enough soap to sustain the onslaught... .

When my dd now 18 was about 2 she was in the cart while we were in a very long line at the store. and she so Badly wanted out of there... It was December so she was a month shy of 2. And she said very loudly and gleefully....I know bad words.... Really do you now?.... And I can SAY them.... She didn't but I remember to this day the evil little expression on her face.
I can say bad words.....

I think It is differant areas of the country have varying attitudes about this kind of language. I admit I am very leninent and have been known to have a mouth, growing up In the Boston area, well Its very commonplace. I had a friend from Out West that was here and could not believe the swearing people do in say a Dunkin Donuts.
I would personally never wash a kids mouth out because I would have to eat a box of tide myself. But I have also not had a child use a word like that outside of the house. EVER.

 

[julia & nicks mom]

I think I should just go buy that prom dress and save it for her -

I just found Julia naked (yes - again) and I asked her why she took her clothes off AGAIN-

she looked at me with those sweet big green eyes and said "So I can dance" -

duh - why would I ask such a foolish question?

 

[mep319]

Hey she can only run around naked for so long..DD used to do it all the time...let her go...she will only be a little girl for so long. I found 3 to be much worse than 2...never understood the terrible 2 business. My DD had once or twice said the "oh...." but we managed to stop her b/4 it got too out of hand. But I for one agree that kids and adults don't have the same vocab nor should they. When DD turns 30 she can say some of them as well...now I don't have a gutter mouth but an occassional "Oh..." keeps my head from exploding! Black pepper works well too...I don't remember my mom using soap...but I remember getting pepper on my tongue and it wasn't because I swore...it was b/c I was a smart ***!

 

[cruisnfamily]

Our DD at age 3 came out of her bedroom with a friend(also 3) holding a Ken doll and very calmly and politely said to me "can you help me put on Ken's F'ing sweater?" The friend, whose mother was sitting right there next to me, was all jumping up and down saying "I taught her that!" all proud of herself. We couldn't help but laugh although we really tried not to!.

 

[Disney Doll]

Hopefully, it wil be an effective lesson.

I do not think that because a child hears a parent say something, or sees a parent do something, that the parent then has no right to discipline the child for saying or doing the same thing. I heard my parents swear on occasion when I was a child, but believe me, it was abundantly clear that swearing would not be tolerated from me. I also never questioned why they could do something and I couldn't. If they said I couldn't do something, then I didn't do it. If I did do it, then I expected the consequences.

I was very aware of who was in charge in my house, and I was very aware that it wasn't me.

 

[C.Ann]

I was very aware of who was in charge in my house, and I was very aware that it wasn't me.

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Wow! I wasn't aware that you and I were raised in the same household!!

My Dad was Italian (need I say more?) and my Mom was....well...hyper, to say the least.. We did what we were told - period!

 

[RitaZ.]

Our DD at age 3 came out of her bedroom with a friend(also 3) holding a Ken doll and very calmly and politely said to me "can you help me put on Ken's F'ing sweater?" The friend, whose mother was sitting right there next to me, was all jumping up and down saying "I taught her that!" all proud of herself. We couldn't help but laugh although we really tried not to!.

 

[Aimeedyan]

TOO FUNNY!

I really love 3 year olds, they are my favorite age to teach. Trying, yes, but always a thrill a minute =)

 

[HollyJoy]

Okay, I'm not trying to be funny, but I've always wondered, how exactly do you do this? Do you just stick a bar of soap on the thier tongue? I'd like to know in case I ever need to do this!

 

[eeyore45]

LOL, my dh remembers to this day having his mouth washed out with soup and he said his mom stuck it in his mouth holding his head and then SCRAPING the bar on his top teeth...

ewwwwwwwwww!!

 

[Microcell]

I was very aware of who was in charge in my house, and I was very aware that it wasn't me.

I was just telling my DS that we do not live in a Democracy in this house. I am a despotic ruler, and he had better listen. Some day I will teach him all those words (he is two).

 

[Rowena]

Oh yeah, the tyranical three's. DS used to wait until we were in public, usually in line waiting to pay at the grocery store with a sweet grandmotherly type woman just behind us before spouting off with the "Eff" word. Imagine a very cherubic boy with huge blue eyes and dark brown hair, yelling "I want my effing money". We'd want to melt into the floor, hand him a quarter and hustle him right outta there BTW, he'd picked up that particular phrase from a movie weas saw after he wasput to bed. Little did we know he'd get out of bed and sit in the hallway to watch "The Rock". Little dickens must've done that to us about four times.

Four is better...but there are flashback moments of three.

 

[ncgolfer]

I still to this day 25 years later remember my taste of the bar soap. I burped the taste of soap for 3 days. It did the trick, never called my mom an a@@hole again.