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Would you do this to discipline your child?

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*Sigh* I watched Supernanny last night. I didn't see the whole show, but I did see the part where the little boy called his brother a name and as punishment, the mom made the little boy eat soap!

Would you ever make your child eat soap? Were you ever made to eat soap when you were a child?

That's just insane, in my opinion. I know I was threatened with it when I was younger, but they never actually did it.

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  1. I never had to eat soap and I will never make my kids...Growing up I lived at my dad's house because my mom didn't have a stable environment that I felt comfortable with. She married my ex-step dad and they lived with my two younger brothers (we don't have the same dad). In my opinion my ex-step dad was a monster. There were times that I would go over there to visit and if my brothers got in trouble they would have to put whole bars of soap in there mouths and hold it there for hours sometimes. I don't agree with that at all, and actually severed ties with my mother for this. Needless to say she eventually left the guy and my brothers are good now. Honestly if people do put soap in theirs kids mouth, its probably because they were taught that as a child from their parents as a form of punishment. If my 3 yr old says a "bad word" I ask if she wants soap in her mouth, but I never do it. Right or wrong is ones opinion.


  2. It says right on the bottle that if the soap is swallowed you need to call poison control center. To me, that says that it's probably not the best choice of disciplinary action.

    Even if the consequence is putting the soap in your mouth, it still seems a bit heinous to me, because it's easy to accidentally swallow something that's in your mouth, especially as a child.

    I'm with you on the insanity thing.

    So no, I wouldn't make a child eat soap. If I saw a child going for the soap, (well it is pretty, and it smells really nice) I wouldn't let the child eat it. And I was definitely never made to eat it myself.

    Interesting question by the way. : ]

  3. No, I'll never do it.  There are better ways to discipline in my opinion.  

    I think my mom threatened soap once or twice but never used it.  She did use hot sauce a few times and I LOVE it now, LOL.

  4. No I wouldn't, Soap is not something that is suppose to be swallowed it says so right on the container.I agree with supernanny. You could use something edible that tastes nasty if you really want to go that route. I can't believe the mom put up such a big fuss over it.

  5. No, never.  There are much better and more effective ways to discipline your child.

  6. no i wouldnt do that and yes as a child..around  6 or 7 it was done to me..my mother also put that red hot pepper flakes on my tongue..the worst part...i didnt say anything bad...my sister lied to get me in trouble...

  7. No i wouldnt that wouldnt help at all.

  8. oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!! No way! I would never do that...no wonder that perant was on Supernanny..lol Sounds like that perant was fed up with that kid...wow!!! Ok well I would never do that and I do remember my mom saying that to me but it never happened...I was a good kid after that..lol wow!!!

  9. I've heard of this form of "punishment" before. In fact, my ex-sister in law did that to her sons when my brother was at work. I would never even think of doing something like that with my children! It's sick and disgusting and not to mention could make them very ill. You know, my parents raised 4 kids and never did anything like that to us. We were never even spanked or anything physical like that. And to this day, we all respect them enough to never curse in front of them.  

  10. Oh I didn’t get soap, I got PEPPER! Because I was a pansy when it came to spicy food…..

    I actually got pepper because I was spitting at people, not because of backtalk…

    And this happened about 15-20 years ago being that I’m 25 yrs old now. I think I was maybe 7 or 8 when this happened. Hey, it worked for me back then! I was also spanked all the time too. I’m not saying a person should do this to their child, however, it was somewhat “normal” and common back then because people weren’t so obsessed with classifying everything as “abuse” as they are today.

    I would never do this to my son, we have other methods that work just fine….

    ** ADD **

    Not sure how I can get thumbs down when my PARENTS did the discipline...not myself...you people are a trip :)

  11. I wouldn't make my child eat soap but I would make her bite it. She'd be allowed to wash her mouth out after she did. I never said a bad word but my sister did and she was made to bite soap and it was the last time I heard her say that word (or any word like it).

  12. No way, that is totally not necessesary. I think parents get so scared their kid will turn out bad that they resort to these harsh types of punishment that just aren't necessesary.

    There has been more than one case of children dying from this. I saw one where the child was 7 yrs old and he said a bad word so the mom put soap in his mouth and before he spit it back out he accidentally swollowed some, this made him sick and he vomited. When he vomited, he aspirated it into his lungs and died. All that for a bad word? It's not worth it geez.

    I have never had soap in my mouth and I don't even swear beyond the normal "d**n" when I get hurt. I have 4 boys and in the past if they said something I didn't like I would simply have a conversation with them about respect and what is appropriate and why. I have taken other opportunities to teach them as well for example if we heard someone else swear I would say to them "se how bad that sounds coming out of someone's mouth?" My kids are all older and none of them have foul mouths or even talk fresh to me, they wouldn't think of it.

  13. I never was punished by eating soap. I would never do that to my kids. My husband says when he would swear or something, instead of soap his mom made him eat Tabasco sauce or hot sauce.  

  14. no

  15. I don't know about soap, but what the heck is wrong with you two louie and sweet thing. Putting Tabasco or hot sauce on a child's tongue is cruel. You should have your parental rights terminated.

  16. i would never there are certainly other ways plus that can be bad for the childs health  

  17. NO I would NEVER make my child eat soap.  That is just cruel, some people should not have children.

  18. Ok I would not make my kid eat soap. However  I will wash my children's mouth out with soap. There is a difference between the two. I think that that is an appropriate punishment for verbal offenses.  

  19. Eat it? No. Bite it? You bet.

    I was made to bite soap ONCE. I never needed it again.

    Harsh punishment=less punishment long term

    What's insane is, for instance, "no, no little Johnny, it hurts mommy's feelings when do that." Where's the incentive to stop?

  20. i wouldnt do it personally, there are so many other options that wont make a child sick...tobassco sauce for example, if you must put something in their mouth....i was never made to eat soap when i was a kid, it was the good ol' leather belt on the behind when i was young.

  21. When I was younger I was threatened with soap and hot sauce, but I don't think I actually ever got either one. I would never do that with my son just because I think soap tastes so nasty that I couldn't stand to make him eat it.  

  22. I had it done to me before when I was little. I don't remember what for though. I haven't done it to my son but boy have I threatened to!!  

  23. I have made my daughter hold a drop of liquid soap on her tongue before when she talked back. She was made to hold her tongue out for a minute with the soap on it, and then she could spit it out when the time was up.

    It worked.

  24. I'd never do that, because it can actually be hazardous to the childs' health. I believe there are definately better methods to deal with situations other than this.

  25. I was threatened not with soap when I was a kid, but Listerine! One taste of that stuff, and I was certain that it was much worse than soap could be. I would use that if my child used profanity. It is totally healthy, but is potent enough that kids hate it.

  26. Well, if SuperNanny agreed with it so do I!

    No, I personally wouldn't do the soap thing.  What's that accomplishing?  Might as well give him some hot sauce or something.  Soap is really not all that bad tasting. I've gotten some in my mouth while rinsing in the shower.

  27. That can endanger his health!

  28. I might would if I had a teenager with a really rotten mouth.  JMO

  29. I've never had this problem with my kids, but if they continued to swear after I told them not to, I would most likely make them gargle soap like mouthwash, but I wouldn't make them swallow it and I certainly wouldn't make them eat a chunk of bar soap.

  30. No I would not do that to my children . Soap is used to clean dirty things not for saying dirty things . I was always threatened too but never happened . My mom always said watch your mouth or I wish wash it out with soap and I was confused from there on like why would she clean my mouth with soap when I can just go brush my teeth but I dare never asked her that .

  31. no I thought about it but decided soap might hurt the kids so instead I put hot sauce on their tounge when they said a bad word
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