A mother is pleading for help in finding the proper punishment for her little one after she learned her son

“maliciously”

called his kindergartener teacher fat. 

She turned to a parent community for guidance, writing at post in the online support group, saying,

“He didn’t say it in that ‘matter-of-fact’ way kids sometimes do but he said it maliciously. I’m so embarrassed. His dad and I are both overweight and we have never once used fat as an insult.”

She continued to write on Reddit,

“I struggle with appropriate punishments because I didn’t grow up with great examples of that so I am begging for advice on how to handle this.” 

She appeared to have received sound advice from Reddit users with one person saying, “I would use this as a teachable moment, not punishment.

“We don’t comment on people’s bodies” and stuff that’s age appropriate.

He probably heard it from another kid or TV. You did nothing wrong.” 

“What I told my kids when they were little: ‘if you think someone is fat, they already know and probably feel bad about it. So if you say something, you’re just being mean and that’s not ok,’”

said another user. 

#Clique, what would you advise her?