Putting soap in your childs mouth because they said something cheeky?

[PlanningAnEscape]

I help out at an after school club three days a week.

There is one little girl there, she is aged 5. She is a lovely child, very confident and happy but she can be a little cheeky at times. But not in a brattish way.

Anyway today she told me that her mum once took her upstairs and put soap in her mouth because she was being cheeky.

It quite upset me, or perhaps I am very sensitive? It's just not something that I would do to my child.

I had this done to me multiple times as a child, along with being given a soap sandwich and made to eat it or a given a glass of washing up liquid to drink, imo its abuse nothing more nothing less,

As a mother myself I wanted my children to grow up with happy memories of childhood, not the nightmares I live with. I honestly can't see how anyone, if they genuinely loved their children, how they can do this. In my case it was the staff of the children's home doing it to me, they were evil bastards.

This thread is six years old. It's probably too late for the op to do anything about it now. 🙄

OP, I work in child protection and we work in a cluster so have very close relationships with schools and nursery. I know all of the staff now really well. If you are worried it is not really your job to probe any further, put through a referral. I had one recently made by a local nursery and when I spoke to the child with his keywoker it was obviously a work of fiction involving knives and stabbings at home. In this case nursery were not able to make the decision themselves so made a referal. We know children get abused, lots of times I complete an assessment and there is no further action. However there are occasions when children really need intervention .