Blair was on GMA, advocating 'hot saucing' as an effective means of disciplining children. I had never heard of the term, or the practice. It is the practice of putting a small amount of hot sauce on a child's tongue as a form of punishment or discipline.
Truth be told, when I read "hot saucing" in the headline, I clicked on the link because I thought it was a type of sexual activity, like tea bagging. I assumed that Lisa Welchel was caught hot saucing children. I was simultaneously glad and upset that it wasn't the case.
I am not a fan of corporal punishment as a means to control children. I assume I am lucky to be of that mind because we have a child who never needed anything stronger than verbal communication and the understanding of who was in charge in the household. If he was a hellian, perhaps my opinion would now be different.
In any event, the biggest detriment (besides all that psychological and physical torture stuff) is that it will cause hot-sauced children to dislike spicy foods.
I never liked Blair.
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I suspect, with reverse psychology and all, it will make them love spicy Thai thingamejibbers. I reading a bird watcher's magazine (ok, I know) that a similar use was suggested for keeping squirrels out of bird feeders. Birds pparently cannot sense spicy. All it did was create an army of spice crazed tree rodents where it was tried.
Alan, do you mean that the squirrels mothers punished the offending bird-feeder feeding rodents by dabbing hot sauce on their tongues? I would think the repulsion to spicy food would not come from the tasting of hot sauce (experienced by both misbehaving children and squirrels), but from the associated punishment and guilt (experienced only by the misbehaving children).
I do not know the motive of the squirrels only their eventual delight.
My experience with children and punishment is the opposite. Make something a nasty medium of punishment and the child will lap it up in some degree of defiance. This would especially be the case with hot sauce as the body adjusts to the heat and comes to enjoy the endorphin blast. All a parent doing this would achieve is create a person well tempered to the beauty of hot sauce who is also able to avoid punishment by pretending that they are suffering when they have no such hysical sensation.
By the way, I try to get the kids eating as much chili heat as possible. For them it would be like punishing them with ice cream.
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