This makes me so angry

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

Not sure I agree with hot sauce on the tongue.

yeah, I don't think that's cool either. I could not imagine doing that to my child.

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by amber

I can't believe you did that! That's hilarious. I never did cool stuff like that...

Here's one from my darling daughter....

She went to my father one night, got right up in his ear, and wispered to him, "I'm not supposed to say damn..."

What do you do? Nothing. Laugh behind their back, because it is pretty hilarious. If you ignore it, to them it's really not that big a deal, ya know? There's bigger and better things to battle about.

[CelticGypsy]

Originally Posted by sara1998

Maria's Story Minute....

It was Easter Sunday. I was 5. We were at my very religious great aunt's house, with my very religious grandmother, and my not-at-all religious folks. Here I was, prim and proper in Easter clothes, coloring, quietly, alone, in my book. I must have gotten out of the lines, because I erupted, threw the book and crayons, and loudly yelled "F*CK IT".
I did not get soap.
I did not get hot sauce.
I got my ass beat with the belt.

That is so taboo these days, but a little "reinforcement" every now and again won't hurt. I don't remember this incident at all.

Sounds like my Dad's way of punishment. Except he would spank all of us and then find out which one was the troublemaker. I didn't think that was fair at all since it was usually one of my brothers who got us all in trouble. This was way back in the 60's and 70's when spanking wasn't so taboo.

[CelticGypsy]

Originally Posted by sara1998

Here's one from my darling daughter....

She went to my father one night, got right up in his ear, and wispered to him, "I'm not supposed to say damn..."

What do you do? Nothing. Laugh behind their back, because it is pretty hilarious. If you ignore it, to them it's really not that big a deal, ya know? There's bigger and better things to battle about.

Now that is cute I would be laughing too. We have a six year old grandson and he says some funny things, not cussing, but some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth, we just can't ever finish dinner when he is around. Everyone has food all over them

[CelticGypsy]

Originally Posted by sara1998

Does your friend have a website? I have a child who LOVES to read!

I wish she did. She doesn't even have her computer hooked up anymore I have read some of the stuff she has written and it is very cute. I hope someday she will find a publisher. If it gets published, I will let everyone know.

[CelticGypsy]

Originally Posted by amber

I see your point about the books, but hot sauce on the tongue seems very appropriate and very minor to me. Way better than soap, in fact. I mean, it's just hot sauce. Which most people grow up to like. At least it's food.
You know what would be a real punishment? I tasted it when I was 3, and it scarred me for life: Baker's chocolate. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *le barf*

The chocolate reminded me of the time my two brothers and I gave our other brother some broken bits of chocolate bars. Of course, it was EX-Lax but we didn't know it. We had found it in a kitchen cabinet (not the pantry) and thought it tasted okay. The one brother ate almost all of it and he was sick for a couple of days. Another time, our parents had put some of that Morgan David wine in a decanter that has a pump and cute little shot glasses. Well, we thought it was grape Kool-aid and we thought the glasses were kid sized and we gave drinks to all the kids in the neighborhood. My mom and the neighbors looked out the window of the house across the street to find all these little four to seven year old kids walking funny up and down the street laughing (we lived on a dead end). We all were really tipsy
My parents really needed to stay home more often now that I think of all the dumb things we did as kids

[stargazer99]

Originally Posted by dissention

Hush your boca, my mother used to do that.

Only when I swore, though. It was either that or an actual bar of soap shoved into my mouth. The worst was when I'd get liquid soap. I'd be gagging all night long and the more water your drink, the more you seem to taste it. With hot sauce, water makes it worse. I quickly learned to eat a cracker or a piece of bread; they get rid of the spiciness.

My mom tried the soap thing once, on my brother. But being the obstinate kid he was, he told her it tasted good!

[stargazer99]

Originally Posted by sara1998

Here's one from my darling daughter....

She went to my father one night, got right up in his ear, and wispered to him, "I'm not supposed to say damn..."

What do you do? Nothing. Laugh behind their back, because it is pretty hilarious. If you ignore it, to them it's really not that big a deal, ya know? There's bigger and better things to battle about.

When my darling son hears a bad word, and finds out it's a bad word, he'll keep saying stuff like "I'm not supposed to say ****. **** is a bad word. So I'm not supposed to say ****.....". His way of getting a few freebies in!

He's also learning to read and has gotten really good at sounding words out. I was talking to my husband in front of him about an incident when someone was being cussed out. My son asked me what the person said, and I told him it was some bad words that I wasn't going to repeat. So he asked me "was it B-I-C-H"?! I was amazed that a) he knew that word, and b) that he came so close to actually spelling it correctly!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by stargazer99

My mom tried the soap thing once, on my brother. But being the obstinate kid he was, he told her it tasted good!

I should have tried that!! Your brother rocks.

Instead of doing that, I howled & moaned & screamed & shouted as if I was being murdered. My mother would just laugh and say "Are there any other dirty words you want to say to me?" It all made me stop swearing in front of her, but when I was alone with my friends, I'd curse up a yellow ****storm and think I was clever because she couldn't hear me.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by dissention

Hush your boca, my mother used to do that.

Only when I swore, though. It was either that or an actual bar of soap shoved into my mouth. The worst was when I'd get liquid soap. I'd be gagging all night long and the more water your drink, the more you seem to taste it. With hot sauce, water makes it worse. I quickly learned to eat a cracker or a piece of bread; they get rid of the spiciness.

But dont you get it? your mother turned you into the fabulous person you are today!

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by stargazer99

My mom tried the soap thing once, on my brother. But being the obstinate kid he was, he told her it tasted good!

Yep. Mom tried it once. I bit off a big piece, laughed, and told her I loved it.
Washing my mouth out with soap was, oddly, never tried again.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Yep. Mom tried it once. I bit off a big piece, laughed, and told her I loved it.
Washing my mouth out with soap was, oddly, never tried again.

Interesting reverse psychology there. Obviously it worked.