Little bear has become very attached to minecraft, playing it with OH and watching it on YouTube. Today I have been happy to let him. It is an inset day and little bear is sooooooooo tired that I am happy to let him get away with lots of computer time. Okay he has had breaks and a little walk, and he has finished all his homework but he has clocked up quite a bit chunk of computer time today.
As I have been hovering (little bear has been on the computer, of course I have been hovering), and a fruity bit of language came on. I shrieked, 'Don't you dare say anything like that!' Little bear just gave me a Look. He has probably heard a lot worse in the playground. Thinking about it, he has probably heard a lot worse from OH who doesn't actually swear that much. However I decided to follow up that Some Words are Not Said in front of Parents.
'If you say anything like that, I will get a big bar of green soap and I will wash your mouth out, right to the back teeth.' I said firmly. Darling father was there, and he had used a similar threat years ago to me when I was the same age. He backed me up to the hilt, 'They have special soap for boys who say rude words and it tastes awful.'
For a split second little bear considered my disciplinary record, my level of strictness and how exacting I could be, then he fell about laughing. He has got me completely worked out. The world's softest mum. I have no chance.
(and no, of course I wouldn't wash his mouth out with soap, but his computer time would vanish to nothing!)
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