A 4 year old boy takes his sisters hair conditioner and actually unscrews the top of it and urinates in it. Then screws the top back on. This I find to be rather disturbing and this really happend. A little girl my mom babysits brother did this, she's 11. She called me crying about this because her mother just laughed, and never corrected the child.
2006-09-11 17:22:09 · 37 answers · asked by Michael C 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The four year old is normal the mother is not.
Four year old boys are just getting started noticing their PP's. It's the beginning of a lifelong obsession. I have 4 boys. The shower is where most of their antics happen. The act of peeing in the conditioner was not really malicious. It was more like "I have to pee, I'm in the shower, Mom yelled at me last time I peed in the shower, I'll pee in the bottle... That was cool."
Fear of getting yelled at prevented him from letting anyone know about it, or because he never uses conditioner he figured no one else does either, so... no one will ever find out.
Mom should definitely have punished him for doing that! But, it's still kind of funny. There is a lot of stuff my kids do that is bad and funny, they just never get to see me laugh about it in front of them.
By the way, we have supervised showers in my house for the little guys. It keeps the damage down to a minimum and the horseplay, too.
2006-09-11 17:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Normal, maybe the limits of normal, for the 4 yr old boy to have done this. Heck, at 4, you're almost all id, lots of ego, very little superego. Especially little boys, who are trying to maintain focus in a hella testosterone storm. What's not normal is the mother's reaction. At the least, comfort the girl, correct the boy would have been the best response. Laughing just reinforces the undesired behavior, and makes the girl feel like so much crap.
2006-09-11 17:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by finnkrypton 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At the age of four the little boy is still trying to figure out his world but the parent is the one to teach him what is right and what is wrong. I feel for the little girl and it would be a good idea if you advised her to keep her things out of the four year olds reach. You can't do anything about how the parent bring up there children but you can be a friend and adviser to the 11 year old. Yes it is normal for the 4 year old if he know no different. He isn't abnormal, just undisciplined. Be the little girls friend she might need one.
2006-09-11 21:35:28 · answer #3 · answered by dinkydidawn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the child may have been taught that this kind of thing is normal.at 4 i dont know where a kid would get something like that if not being taught by someone.and by the mothers reaction you may know where the behavior is starting.some parents have the attitude of boys will be boys..but where will they draw the line?i just feel sorry for the little girl.and on another note..what was a 4 year old child doing in the bath without an adult watching him?
2006-09-11 17:34:51 · answer #4 · answered by noseyroseysillywillie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The little boy has obviously seen something similar, and is imitating that action. A four year old doesn't improvise things like this. Possibly someone (a male) in the house was sick and used a urinal in bed? Or who knows what he saw, or thought he saw.
But what is disturbing, and definitely not normal, is that the mom just laughed and didn't correct the child.
2006-09-11 17:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by old lady 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to the four year old boy it is normal, he must have urinated before in a bottle when he had to badly so this is a result of this happining again but this time in a bottle of conditioner, as for the mother just laughing about it that is normal too, since her son might have done it in the past. For the girl to get mad, yeah she has a right to, it is her bottle of conditioner...this is something that would happen and many circumstances allow it depending on place and time...
2006-09-11 17:26:46 · answer #6 · answered by mary 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he heard of it from someone older its probably quite normal that he decided it would be a funny thing to do.
Even if he thought it up on his own (which is more questionable) I suppose thinking up that kind of thing could be normal in a kid who had a leaning toward being rotten.
The mother who laughed is probably the reason the four-year-old is a rotten little kid, so I'm going to guess the kid is normal; but just really lousy as a little person. If some mother thinks that's funny she's pretty much an imbecile, so what's anyone expect from her kid....
2006-09-11 18:14:53 · answer #7 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sad to say the mum is in the wrong of not correcting the boy, and let the boy have his way. What will happen if this goes on and the boy grows up and as he matures, he would do anything as he pleases. And one fine day he commits a serious crime and will blame the mum for not correcting him which of course there will be breaking quite a few hearts.
2006-09-11 21:17:11 · answer #8 · answered by crashonme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not think this is normal and I would bet this child has some deep psychological issues. I have a friend who has run a foster child therapy home for years. What you are describing is typical of what these foster children do in her house. They are always peeing in shampoo, conditioner, or whatever bottles. I do not want to alarm you, but most of the kids that have done this in her home have been sexually abused. Something is not quite right here.
2006-09-11 17:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
this is not normal. its very aggressive behavior and hes learning from someone or something. it should be corrected. not only because he is learning that its ok to hurt other people (including his family) but because hes learning that there are no consequences for his behavior. thats just a ticking time bomb.... some day this child is going to do something he cant take back or talk his way out of and then what will he do?
2006-09-13 06:16:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋