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[novapsyche]

Hot Saucing a Child

I dunno. Given the choice between spanking and saucing, I'd go with the sauce.

I think when we kids were young, my mom and aunts would put hot sauce on thumbs to keep us from sucking them. (That was a behavior I wasn't terribly fond of, but one of my cousins did it until she was in her pre-teens. I don't think saucing dissuaded her, either.)

Comments

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

I hate these people, I think they are sick. Sure, torturing your children will usually make them behave better. It doesn't mean it is a good thing to do.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I think torturing would be putting hot sauce in their eyes.

I remember when I was about three, I put a whole bunch of hot sauce on my french fries, thinking it was ketchup. This goes to explain why I really don't like hot sauce even now. But if my mom had put the sauce on my french fries, would that have been torture? I don't think so. I didn't like the hot sauce, but it wasn't so extraordinarily bad.

I still don't think hot sauce is worse than disciplining your child physically.

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

I think both are horrible. One isn't allowed to hit an adult or put caustic substances on their tongue - why is one allowed to do this to a helpless child? There are much more effective and more humane ways to teach your child how to behave. People who hit their children are ignorant at best, and at worst, monsters.

[akaiyume.livejournal.com]

Using hot sauce is physical discipline. It causes a form of physical pain as a "punishment" for "bad behavior." Zapping someone with low levels of static electricity isn't hitting them either, but should that be allowable? Hot saucing works on the same principle.

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

This would have not worked for me as a child. As the hot sauce that would have been hot enough to hurt generally has chemical burn warnings on them. :) By the time I was in 5th grade, I use to have Jalapeno eating contests. :) at 3 years old, I was eating hot sauce. Tabasco Sauce may have worked then. I don't know. I have been using it for a while. In truth, there is no perfect parenting tactic. As every child/person reacts differently to different techniques. But I would say, so long as they are not using the "Dave's Insanity" style hot sauce, there are worse things to use as punishment. Ie: Blatantly Ignoring the child or Yarding the child around to scream and belittle them. Working in a convenience store, I have seen some beautifully horid examples of child raising.