Disclaimer: If you are a parent that likes to pass judgement and think "harsh" punishments are a good reason to call DFACS, then don't read this. I may completely offend you in how I dealt with my child this weekend....and that's fine with me.
Remember about two posts ago when I said I feel like the peaceful little bubble that I've been able to keep my children in feels like it is busting?!? Well, yesterday, that feeling only intensified. Apparently, sometime in the last couple of weeks, my son has picked up a new word. That word? D%#M. This was one UNHAPPY momma yesterday when I heard him say it for the first time. After the first time, we just gave him a very serious talking to. Well, after it happened the second time just a few hours later, a bar of soap came out. Joey and I DO NOT talk this way....and we MOST DEFINITELY do not talk this way in front of our children. I have no clue where he heard the word. I would say school...BUT Joey said he thinks he actually started saying it a couple of weeks ago, but that he was always mumbling it, so Joey just ignored it because he wasn't positive that's what he was saying. After washing his mouth out with soap, and him and Mak both screaming at the top of their lungs...I sat him down and talked to him again. I told him how words like that make Jesus cry and they hurt mommy and daddy as well. I think he understood how serious it was. I tried to explain to him that God made our mouths to speak kind words and gentle words, not harsh words and ugly words. How I am PRAYING I don't get a note home from his school today that he said that word to a friend. The biggest shocker is that he is using the word in the completely right context. He's only saying it when he gets frustrated or mad. I see the innocence slowly leaving my children and it breaks my heart.
Later on, Mak was trying to figure out why her brother had to have soap put in his mouth. She said, "Is it because Fripp sayed down, mommy? We can't say down?!?!" Heaven help me....
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