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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.)

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[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.