To find this slightly disturbing?

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When talking about foods to a group of Year 1 children, I mentioned horseradish and one of the children said "I know what horseradish is! My mum gives it me when I'm naughty."

no that does seem odd

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How odd i wonder why her mum would do that.

I would delve a little deeper into that one, but unless any other indicators of abuse are there, wouldn't be in the least but bothered by that alone. Ds1, aged four, often says things like "Are we going to have some food today? Yay! We are having some food today!"

what age group is year one?

lol colditz!

I don't know them well, but from what I've seen the mum is very strict.

Children have their 6th brithday in Y1, so the child is 5 or 6 now.

small confession.

my ds(5) once tasted mustard, he obviously didn't like it. for a couple of week i threatened to give him some more if he was naughty. (I didn't though)

Maybe the child is right. Isnt it hot and not very nice tasting? Used to be a disapline method, maybe still used by mum with reasoning "never did me any harm" YUCK hate those words!!
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my mum told me once that when she was little, if her mum told her off in public she used to cry and scream "oh mummy please don't lock me in the cellar when we get home... please please don't lock me in the cellar again mum".

kids are little shits sometimes.

my friend used to "mummy please don't hit me, pleeeease" when her mum was asking her not to be a nuisance in the supermarket.

yes but saying that your mum gives you horseradish as a punishment is a little more obscure

Nah, I do the same to my ds (5) if he says a naughty word. I use vinegar on the tongue, just a drop.
It definately does the trick.

my dd has this awful habit when shes in one of her moods of shouting "ow ow ow your hurting me your squeezing my hand too tight" which makes me feel like some kind of child abuser,the looks you get off people are unreal.i think the point is,a pinch of salt is required,unless of course you have a serious reason to suspect abuse.

Kids do say funny things though, perhaps his mum lightheartedly jokes sometimes about giving her child something he tried once and thought revolting?

You're right to be a little concerned but please don't start a witch hunt after the poor woman. If he seems fine and happy I really wouldn't worry about it!

Hmm, I agree with belgo- it's such an odd thing to come up with, that's what makes it sound plausible really.

I wonder if the child has mixed up horseradish with something else?

deepinlaundry would you really?

I would say its none of your business, honestly ffs its horsefeckin radish, bizarre but horse radish all the same, its hardly abuse is it?

And for what it's worth I went through a stage of giving DS Haliborange orange/cod liver oil if he didn't eat his dinner. It worked for about 2 days and he began to like it............

she may be trying to stop him thumb sucking. my mum tried pasting my thumb with allsorts to make me stop inc mustard

very good point MOM, that's quite common.

but even if she does use it as a form of dicipline, whilst bizarre i really dopn't see how its disturbing?

I met a woman at dd1's nursery who would give her daughter mustard if she said certain words, or if she was rude ti the mother. She was quite open about it. She also said that she oince actaully washed her older daughter's mouth with soap.