I’ve also never met a 5 year old tall enough to read the top shelves at stores. Children generally only have an interest/awareness of things on their own level unless they’re looking for something specific (and even then, they’re more likely to search low).
Not only that, the kid will now be curious what the actual "F" word is, and will be curious until he learns, likely from someone other than his parents now. They could've made it a non-issue, and now it's something lodged in his mind.
Yup, my parents turned the van around so they could drag me to the bathroom and get soap in my mouth the first time they heard me say "damn' when I was 6 so I'm rooting for the nephew.
Please tell me it was a nice freshly opened bar of soap and not a bacteria-laden soap from a facility open to the public! I am appalled at the ancient disciplinarian method, which is arguably child abuse, but I'm too busy being upset with the potential of really disgusting bacteria.
If you need to use force, violence or shame in order to discipline, you are a shit parent and need therapy. You can actually discipline without being an abusive piece of shit. No wonder they don't listen to you, you're not worth the respect of being listened to
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u/sunsetgal24 6d ago
And it's not like a 5 year old has the context to understand what any of those words mean.