I personally know what Ivory Soap tastes like, after saying the word “crap” when I was about 8 years old.
My mother actually made good on what probably started out in this world as just a weird threat.
Well now I guess we have to keep the bar of soap in the soap dish. There will be no using it to “clean out” your child’s dirty mouth. Someone might consider it child abuse.
Check out this story from our sister paper, the Orlando Sentinel. The couple in question had their kids taken away, and were charged with child abuse and child neglect.
I found it kind of amusing that when I typed in “washing mouth out with soap” into Google, the second choice was “washing mouth out with soap abuse.”
I put this in the same category with schools doing away with paddling. (Click here for my thoughts on that.)
We are raising a Spoiled Generation.
I’ll bet if I search for “spanking your child,” I’ll also be offered links about “spanking your child — ABUSE.”
These disciplinary actions certainly lose effectiveness if afterwards, the police show up and put you in jail, and your kids go eat ice cream in a foster home.
This nonsense has to stop.
