Discipline.
There's an article in today's Post about using hot sauce to discipline children. A kid tells a lie, or bites a sibling, or commits some other infraction and gets a taste of hot sauce to straighten him out.
When my ex-brother-in-law was a kid, his stepmother used to drop Tabasco on his tounge when he used foul language. Today he swears like the sailor he is, and he eats habanero peppers straight.
It obviously didn't work on my XBIL, and some parents and child experts find the practice...bizarre. Or at least ill-informed. But then there's this mother:
As a Christian, she believes that "children need to respect and obey [parents] or they won't learn to respect and obey God. God won't hot sauce you, but you need to learn consequences."
How does she know God won't hot sauce you? Maybe Hellfire is really capsaicin.
Posted by Nic at August 10, 2004 05:06 PM