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Child spraying aerosols

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Jamiejhopes · 12/09/2024 19:03

hi ladies, just hoping for a little advice on a situation I have just came in to.
i came home from work to my partner telling me my daughter (6yo) had been messing with my make up/fake tan/body cream to which I told her I don’t care about the things I just don’t want her messing with liquids that aren’t hers because they could hurt her/her skin. He then showed me an empty bottle of body spray which was full this morning. Now the room she was doing this in is a small downstairs toilet, the window and door was closed and my partner thought she was just taking a while on the toilet. She told me that she had sprayed the whole bottle and then tried to clean up the mess she had made so that she didn’t get in trouble! This made me panick and I told her she is never to spray anything by herself and if she wants to smell anything she is to ask one of us if she can. I remembered a story of a girl who died from spraying deodorant cans under her duvet and I immediately panicked and told her to that a girl had sprayed whole bottles of that kind of thing and ended up in heaven because I thought this would maybe scare her into not doing it again. I now feel incredibly guilty and horrible that I have put this thought into her head and I’ve spent the last hour reassuring her that she is not going to heaven and she is just not to spray anything like that again.
i dont know what im asking for here but maybe if i was wrong to tell her that (im sure i was) and if this thought will affect her in anyway.

thank you for reading, sorry it was so long x

OP posts:
Unseenentity · 12/09/2024 19:09

It's probably less prevalent now but everyone in my generation grew up having heard a few weird rumours like that from peers or exasperated parents. She probably won't do it again, unlikely to experience lasting trauma.

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