oh, good glory.

[sisyphusshrugged]

Lisa "suffer the children" Whelchel (Discipline involves "drawing a line to protect the child," Whelchel said, "and if they cross that line, there will be pain."), former talentless child actress and current religious homeschooling entrepreneur, has made hot-saucing children's tongues a Christian [sic] childraising trend.

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Christian sadism.

Those kids will never grow up to be lovers of spicy food. Sad.

[ryanbrenizer.livejournal.com]

Pshht… these parents are namby-pamby wanna-bes. As the saying goes, "spare the mace, spoil the child"

[wickedripeplum.livejournal.com]

When you need to check local laws to see whether or not your discipline methods are considered child abuse I think you can safely say you're doing something wrong.

Plus who would take parenting advice from Blair? Does having bad hair give automatically grant you an honorary degree in early childhood development?

[antigone-ks.livejournal.com]

I'm not a parent, so obviously there are issues here I can't entirely grasp, but when discipline means hurting your child, shouldn't you start looking into, like, parenting classes or something?

And when you start spilling filth like "A correction has to hurt a little," shouldn't you find a nice calm psychiatrist to talk to?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

for "defiance"

That's what kills me. Don't learn to set boundaries, kids. Someone will tell you what's appropriate in any situation that arises, and you do exactly what they tell you or you'll get hurt.

This is how abusers and their victims get started.

"G-d won't hot-sauce you"

[josner.livejournal.com]

Something stuck me as really tragic about the woman who defends this barbaric practice by saying that if children do not learn to respect their parents, they will not learn to respect G-d, simultaneously acknowledging that the Lord does not engage in this type of behavior correction. She is effectively laying out an argument that parents need to make up for G-d's shortcomings as a pedagogue.

Re: "G-d won't hot-sauce you"

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers...

so basically, they're saying it's OK to hotsauce Jesus if he acts up.

Which, I have to admit, explains a fair amount about the Rev. Falwell's political activism...