Do you do this?

I never had this done to me as a child but I had friends who had it done to them. My daughter isn't quite old enough to use this kind of discipline yet. And even when she is old enough I don't think I will do this. If she starts using bad language it would only be because she heard it from us or on tv. So I think in some respect parents need to take responsibility for what their kids say and change the way they talk if they don't want their kids talking that way. Now before anyone jumps on me, yes I know kids learn bad habits from other people besides their parents. But I think parents take a big part in how children act and speak.

Yep and I have great girls the teachers fight to get every year. However once my oldest was set on saying the word "sh!t" and would not stop no matter what I did or said. Finally I had her hold a bar of soap (new bar out of the box) in her mouth with her teeth for a whole minute. Then she rinsed her mouth out afterwards. I hated to do it, but I wasn't going to have her thinking that she could get away with that. My fear was if I let that one go, what would I do if she heard something worse and started repeating it?

Well I was lucky enough to never have it done to me and Ive also been lucky enough not to have to do it to my kids yet either. However I do threaten my kids all the time that if the speak badly they will get their mouths washed out with soap.. I think its a great punishment for kids with dirty little mouths...

nope, i never do that to my child..if she will said bad words i will say that it's bad..we parents need to guide our children coz lots of influences are coming around like television, playmates with bad values or even parents that has no good values too..it's good that our children will learn good values inside our house first..

Hi there. I know when I was growing up, I would go down to my grandmas house, and that where I would hear this phrase and threat, and I'd have 14 odd cousins there, and we'd be catching up, hanging out, one of my cousins would swear in conversation and then we'd hear, you'd best be keeping your mouth shut, because I will wash it out with soap... And we all use to laugh at the cousin that was caught, but this was something our grandma always said, but i never saw her actually do it though lol...

My daughters are 18 & 21. Yes, when they were younger I made them on several occassions eat soap. Can't say that it helped any. The youngest has such a potty mouth. There are some days now that if she had ate soap for every bad word said, she would have one constant bubble out of her mouth! Can't say that eating soap really helped!

You story is really interesting. I believe that the soap could really “clean” the kids’s mouths lol... In my place I have never heard of this and I also don’t do to my kids. I think it is quite risky and it might poison the children. Anyway I agree that this punishment must be very impressive to any kids.

wash with soaps?? who does that? i mean, soap isnt supposed to be for mouth. mouth is like internal, and soap is for external use only right?? when we want to wash our mouth we use water, or mouthwash or toothbrush with toothpaste. ^__^;; i think that's a cruel practice in punishing children. in our family we only give "sermon" to whoever say bad words. when i was a kid that was my mother's practice too. she seldom hit us.

It took one time when I was about 8 of having a half of a bar of my Dad's work soap (we were at his work--he was a truck driver and worked on big rigs--so it was nasty soap) popped in my mouth for saying "the Brown word" (sh*t) and I never did swear again until I grew up and moved away. Even now there are some words I can't tolerate. AT PEACE WITHIN ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

It was never done to me, but my brother was threatened with it :) He had a potty mouth, I didn't &(*^^&^ LOL

I did this with all 3 of my boys. I didn't really wash their mouths out, but I took a tiny drop of soap and put it in their mouth. I only had to do it once and the nasty talk stopped. After, I felt really bad about it, but it didn't hurt them at all and it taught them a lesson.

i think that was a psychological, it doesn't really mean anything i should think because the soap doesn't remove those words from the child's mouth and more to the point the worsds come out of the mouth but formed in the mind. i think teaching children to respect others and not make them angry will solve that somehow. if the child is not stuborn. my mom use to say we should respect others because they can help us when we're in trouble or if you're stuborn what she says is that next time you say this she'll burn your mouth with fire but that was a threat.

Hello speedy1279, Yes I remember the days when my mother use to threaten me that she would wash my mouth with soap if she hears me saying bad words when I was a kid, I am happy to say I never experienced it. I was a fast runner then, Lolz. :-) But I had seen some of my friend did experienced it. I think there are parents who still does it. I have overheard some of my neighbor say it to their children. I might threaten my kid to scare him if ever I heard him saying a bad word but I'll never do it to my kid. :-)

Ack. No, I never did that to my kids. I don't think I ever even threatened it. No one in my house when I was growing up ever said or did that although I have heard it a lot here and there on TV and at friends houses. I wouldn't put soap in my kids' mouths. Yeck. They never swore (still don't at 21 and 17 - at home at least) so the only thing they did was get mouthy but I never would have put soap in their mouths. I honestly didn't believe anyone REALLY did that. I thought it was just a threat.

Wow I have never heard of such a thing...Are you serious? I mean whenever i got caught using foul language I was given a nice talk and was grounded but washing the mouth with soap literally...thats kinda scary and I am so glad my parents didnt do that....

No—I do not put soap in my daughter’s mouth- I’m lucky also she never said swear words- and still doesn’t- she is 10- I have told her I would wash her mouth for being lippy and sassy- but she stops- I really do not know if I would do it or not- There are so many chemicals and stuff in soaps these days- I can remember getting the soap bar in my mouth as a child on occasion!

Oh my goodness, I nearly passed this one...I remember getting it done to me when I was a kid..It was so disgusting and horrible...But I can laugh about it now...Thank goodness though I have never had to do this to my children...I have threatened though, and that was enough...lol.

I have not done it. My friend does it, but she uses liquid soap and a spoon, instead of the bar of soap. She does it for lying.

yes you are right.some parents do like that.this make the child think that saying bad words is a bad thing with their small mind.You said that you never had to do this with your kids.Thats a good thing..