"Idiot!" There's a pause and some storming around in the hall, "Stupid a$.$!"
"TIME OUT. STAIRS. NOW." I do some storming of my own in the hall. In fact, I storm right past the offender now sulking on the stairs and into the kitchen, where I pump a little Method hand soap (non-toxic) onto one finger and storm back to the time out spot. "OPEN."
He mewls and squirms, covers his mouth with both hands. I glare and curl my lip, hold out my soap finger. He tries to melt into the stairs; cries, "I'll never say it again! I won't!"
"I KNOW YOU WON'T. OPEN." Reluctantly, he does. I smear a bit of soap on his tongue and he instantly begins to emulate a poisoned cartoon character with a series of still-life poses altering between grabbing his neck and arched back, wide splayed arms with jazz fingers.
A few minutes later, when I'm sure he's had full value out of the soap, I let him out of time out. As he stands, I offer, "...and, so you know, it's 'DUMBa$.$'." Would somebody please pass me the soap?
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Yes, OK, a point for that despite the complete lack of bleeding.
Oh, I think it's brilliant. You win this month. I step down. :)
Isn't liquid soap deadly?
Yes, 1WMP.
It's hand-sanitizer that's deadly but I think if you ate enough the soap could be too.
Wow, and to think all i said to my mother was "i hate you" in order to get the soap-cleansing....
Thank you, thank you, one and all. I might want my kid to have PG-rated speech but, since he's going to know 'those' words anyway, he really should get them right.
For the record, his initial comments were directed at his brother - there'd have been a spanking in there too, if he'd been so bold as to toss them at an adult!
I am not sure she gets a point for the soap in the mouth, that is good parenting in my book but she totally gets a point for teaching him the correct way to swear. I would even be inclined to give her 2.
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