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For those who maybe "don't know" this was used as a form of punishment for using bad words or rude words... (Maybe some people on here need to eat a bar 🤣)
Did You Ever Get Your Mouth Washed Out With Soap As A Kid?
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Scene: seated at the dinner table with the family. No cells phones, no tv.. just home cooked food and conversation. I’m around 11 years old.
My Dad asks how was school. My answer was to repeat a new word I had been hearing from the other kids that week. “School Sucks”.
Action Sequence: Mom doesn’t hesitate to stand up and grab me by the arm. I’m directed into the bathroom and positioned in front of the sink as she runs water, puts a fresh ivory soap bar into my mouth, tells me to bite down and don’t move. 2 hours later (~ 2 minutes later) she comes back and removes the soap. Then the lecture begins on bad words and why cursing is not tolerated.
Summary: We don’t curse in my family. The words ‘Sucks’ apparently is a curse word and I didn’t utter it again. Discipline was the norm growing up and now as an adult I fully support discipline.
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Yes I did quite often and another popular punishment was to kneel in the corner for hours without pants on rice. So as You can see parents back in the 70's and 80's not only used violence but used their imaginations also to inflict pain and discomfort. I would say the cruelest thing that was done as a child was I was told to go up to My room and My parents would be up later to whip My butt and the waited hours so every time a shadow would pass by the door I'd be scared to death and this went on for hours. I don't remember the butt whipping but to this day I still remember the anticipation of a butt whipping more. The more humane thing would have been to just tear My little keister up because then it would have been over and done.
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Lol! Yeap... lava soap too. Or whatever soap we had. Soap does not taste good y'all 😂
My mom didn't play with us growing up: said a bad word? Mouth washed out with soap. Talked back to her? Smacked. Did something stupid? Got spanked.
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Once by a neighbor and my mom beat her ass. Then I saw my mom get arrested.
Never seen my mom fight before. She was like a Windmill in a Tornado.
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My aunt tried this once, but I decided to spite her by eating the soap, knowing full well she'd have to send me to the hospital. This happened twice before she decided this was a bad idea. This punishment never works as I cuss like the sailor I am today. Also, there is no point in forbidding a child from cussing when it is everywhere. Much better to teach a child why it is bad and how to deal with others who do so. Sheltering a child from bad things does harm. However, like a vaccine, exposing them to bad things in small, controlled by you doses is a smarter approach. That approach teaches the kid responsibility, why the action is wrong and gives enough freedom as a kid that they do not rebel when they become adults and fuck their lives up.
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My parents never did that to me, but my dad did that to my oldest sister when she was little. I do remember though I did it to myself. Not because I was being bad, but simply because I didn't know what it was like to have a bar of soap in your mouth. I can say that punishment wouldn't work on me, as I seemed to like it.
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Yes it happened a few times, between 5-10 times for me in total when I grew up. Guess one time why my dad tolerated it more than my mom.
*Hits toe on a table or chair leg, "insert nasty word"*...
Then from my teen years till today pretty much anyone in my family swears. Ohh, by the way all rude words I know is learnt at home, same with my classmates. From first grade of groundschool, till about fifth-sixth any student, swearing got punished, standing in the classroom corner for at least 20 minutes... -
No they have never used such method. but they use different method
for eg if I have done something mischievous or said something bad to anyone , my parents will give me silent treatment and ignore me
Which I personally don't like but it works in my case. -
Yes I got my mouth washed out with a bar of soap a few times. Till the day I just took a bite out of the bar of soap and proceeded to chew it up. The look of shock on moms face was worth it. But in hind sight I should have just let her think the soap bothered me. The new punishment was sitting on the chair with my mouth taped shut.
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What would have been the point when my family were the ones who taught me every single cuss word I knew?
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My mom did up until I was 10, but it was more for if I said something she didn't like rather than cusswords. She would use liquid soap and I would drink it... Super nasty.
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I did hear that saying when I was a kid. "Wash your mouth out with soap". But I had never actually heard of it being done. I thought it was just a saying to keep kids from cussing or talking dirty.
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I didn't even know this was a real thing...
My parents joked about it if I said a bad word "you need to wash your mouth with soap" but they didn't actually do it. -
Nope, but when I was 7 I called my dad "asshole" (I didn't know what it meant, I through that it was a compliment) and he putted pepper in my mouth 🤮🤢
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Nope. I was a pretty sensitive kid and my parent's disapproval was enough to send me a message. Besides I didn't mouth off or swear in front of them.
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No, my parents didn't elect to use that form of punishment. I had friends who that happened to, though.
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my mother was a big believer in physical discipline... i left home as soon as i could. by the way i love your new profile photo
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I think one time and i cried. It was a school teacher. I told my mom who was the boss of them and that never happened again lol
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No.. . Never... Is soap made for eating? Hahahahhaa
May be i did when i was a child... But now i am not like childs to do such a thing... -
Nope. I either got smack, whipped, or get my things taken away. I never had soap in my mouth as a punishment! 😌
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My mom would put her hand over my mouth and smack her own hand with the other. It didn't hurt but would scare the shit out of me
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Luckily no, I was a angel as a child so I never got punished 😇😇
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My parents threatened it many times but as far as I can remember they never followed through 😂
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Bubbles bubbles yes 1 time then i learn how to run fast lol
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