by snowdoll487

Created on: September 16, 2010

I was visiting my relative who was a few blocks away from our home. Both his parents are in Malaysia and so I've decided to check up on him. While I was talking to my 5 year old nephew's Nanny he suddenly exclaimed "V*g*na! V*g*na!" a couple of times to his Nanny to my horror and surprise. I myself have never heard such absurd words from my two kids; since childhood. Nanny reprimanded my nephew, I was so taken aback that I was unable to respond immediately.

I asked my nephew. "Where did you learn such a word?" Ahh, that was foolish of me. Need I ask when obviously it is something he learned from school and from fellow 5 year old students in nursery. God that is a crime. We homed schooled Hanz, my 5 year old nephew... All those 2 years we have not heard him say a single inappropriate word and any disrespectful word coming from this child all those tutorials at home.

Deeply concerned on what little Hanz was learning at school, I phoned in my cousin and her husband immediately about their child's inappropriate behavior. I also lectured him about what he just said. I told him, "Hanz, dear, did you realize what you have just said? That is a bad word to say in front of two ladies. That is very rude, if I have heard it from my son John, I would have definitely slapped him so hard he'll be on his knees. The next time I hear you say that word again, unless you're in your science class my dear, I'll slap you. You understand what Aunt just said?"

Some may think that I am being insane, but I have not heard any family member, kins nor siblings say such a disrespectful word to anyone at anytime except for those who studied Medicine. This is part of medical vocabulary not on a 5 year old boy's vocabulary. And so we have decided to home-school the child for the meantime. He will be home-schooled until he is old enough to know what is right and wrong. If he needs playmates he has a dozen of cousins, some of them home-schooled too, to play with.

We dread imagine what more will be able to learn from school at his age. Although we are hands-on when it comes to our kids education we can't risk one of us being influenced by bad circle of friends at an early age. If I am going to have another child, I will definitely home school him/her. Until he is of proper age to know and differentiate what is right and wrong and be able to cope with peer pressure.

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