SmackDown: Would You Make Your Kid Drink Hot Sauce as Punishment?

i feel that you people should mind your own

I agree. Just because our parents did it, doesn't make it right. Who knows whatelse this lady does besides the hot sauce. That's what we might be overlooking. We are just looking at one incident. What does she do when the hotsauce doesn't work anymore? Does she have to resort to even more severe punishment. There are healthier ways to go about teaching a child that is better for everyone.

Give me a brake. This is not child abuse. Maybe a little strange but a far cry from beating or neglecting your child. I remember getting a nasty bar of soap in the mouth and you know what IT WORKED. I have seen many 7-13 year olds that are running over there parents now a days. Getting away with things that i would have never even conceived and they just get away with it because parents will not steep up and deal with there own children.

Ed has a very valid point. Many adults exerienced physical punishment for acts and aren't suffering from breakdowns. I grew up in a similar fashion. I am one month away of becoming a doctor and as an adult I have love and respect towards my mother. As a child I didn't understand why she was so strict but as an adult I appreciate it. All of my friends who had parents that were more like friends didn't fare as well. Like Ed, I have never been in jail...I've never experienced alcohol or drugs. When it comes to disciplining children...well, unfortunately there isn't a one sized fits all. Sending someone to bed early may work for one child but my nephew can sit in an empty room and have a field day using his imagination. My cousin can take any physical punishment and go back to his previous behavior. My brother wouldn't stop sucking on his fingers so my mother put the hottest sauce on them she could find...he stopped sucking them. Parents have to figure out what's appropriate for that child...and to who ever said that prisons are only filled with people from abused homes is far from the truth. Some spoiled brats are in prison for killing their loving parents for insurance money...maybe they should have gotten the rod rather than having their favorite toy taken away. I am not supporting what this women did....I am only pointing out the problem with all of the people on here who are saying that physical punishment only breeds violence and criminals - you are wrong as evidenced by so many people who were raised in a similar fashion but are productive members of society. And all of those case studies and reports either support or don't support their hypothesis - they are not PROOF that children will become violent if they are physically punished. Parents - just don't abuse your children and don't treat them as equals (to all of the softies out there).

is it your kid? do you have to deal with the reprucusions of taking him "in hand" before he ends up with mulitple bastard children and a file on hand with local authorities? I thought not, so, unless your name is mary poppins, mind your own damn business and attend to your own life.

I was smacked on the butt by my mother and father. smacked in the face, was forced to smoke a cigarette, my sister had hot sauce put on her nails to keep her from biting them. Kids are resillient and I believe that parenting has gotten way too soft. I am a fully functional adult with a great relationship with my father because I am aware that those thing he did were to teach me a lesson and not done with malicious intent. I think that having this women's son LIE about something and her taking the punishment measure that she did are fine. The cold shower may have been a bit much, but the kid gets over it and is fine but remembers the lesson learned. Get over it people. Stop being so dang soft..tough love is appropriate and is a parent choice.

I usually don't get involved in these things, but my peers are worrying me. I'm 35 y/o and have 3 wonderful children. This is how things go nowadays...people cut you off in traffic, or don't let you in when they're zooming to a red light only to ignore that you are there and you need to just make a left, but now can't because they have blocked the intersection. Or how about my son coming home from school saying that a bully pulled a knife on him and kicked him in the chest and no one did anything, but watch? Hey I remember that time when a woman went through the drivethru at Mickey D's and got violent because these jokers didn't have anymore chicken nuggets. I heard recently a mother shot her two children with a .38 caliber pistol in the head twice. And the mother of year award goes to...?
Charles Manson, is anyone too young in here to remember that joker? Guess what he wasn't "abused" as a child. Hey, it's the age of the times. We have lost respect for human life, human interaction, humankind. And we're raising pure bloods to do the same. Consequences come in many forms, don't put limitations because you did a study. We're looking at half a picture to make a full judgement. Theory, the idea goes out the window or should when the results are not constant. Meaning, it's not a true assessment to say that physical punishment in child rearing results in violent behaviors as adults. Wow! In western civilization things have been visually literated and concluded upon, because we're geared to think this way. But let's think out of the box for a second...this woman, for example, "poured" hotsauce, that was a very hot brand, "down her adopted son's throat," and then put him in a cold shower. Yeah I would be cry too. What in the world could have driven this child to believe that he would get away with being disrespectful to another adult?
The school always look at the parents! "Your child is unruly, and something needs to change." Hey peers, remember when you didn't have to go home to get jacked up, you got it from the teachers as well and then you got it again when you got home. I heard an educator on the radio the other morning say it is not their responsibility to raise these peoples children or to teach them respect, it is the parents. A village, people!
But the parents are being limited to what forms of punishments to give. Anger is abusive, things that lead to anger can be destructive. But we're taught to rationalize and energize and refocus those feelings that can lay hold and corrupt. But its from our peers usually about our children. That lady that went postal on her two children, I bet felt like she had lost control over the situation of parenting. Well, at least that's what I thought until I learned that she brought the gun 3 days in advance. Wow. But still, things go beyond just vision. I whip my 3 children, and you best believe that before I allow anybody outside the realm of truth falter my decision on "any means necessary" they can have my children for a spell and see how that's working out. I would cry too, when that joker grows up and rapes and kills my daughter because he has respect issues for other people. I'm being extreme, yes, but that's what you like.

This punishment reminds me of a recent case where a mom in Indiana fed her 3 year old oil & vinegar and the child died! There are so many factors in this "hot sauce" case. Yes, a child can die from ingesting a food product. Their fragile system may not be capable of digesting it. Then again, how much are you giving the child? I also understand that this little guy was adopted. Is our system so broken that they didn't check the psychological background of this mom! If the punishment fits the "crime", tell mommy dearest to get a straw, stick it in the hot sauce, and suck it!

Agreed, She should have warmed his backside instead of burning his insides.

oh no, parents can go to jail for "beating" their kids remember? its as if punishing a child at all is now considered abuse. Pff give me an effing break.

Please, most kids today are brats. Give me a break. I don't believe in spanking but hot sauce as a punishment. That is nothing. It is no worse than getting vinegar or soap to wash your mouth out with. Quit being whiners

Well said, SG. Hot sauce does not injure a child. It is just uncomfortable. Yeah it sucks but that's because PUNISHMENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE UNPLEASANT. And please, a cold shower is child abuse? Are you effing nuts?

They live in Alaska too... *shivers*

What is wrong with these people! Did they even watch the clip! It wasn't just the hot sauce..it was her whole attitude...she bullied that child and terrorized him.
The only thing she taught him was fear and shame because she is bigger and he can't defend himself! She should not be raising kids!

but the question is not about how much did she go on and on. it's about using the hot sauce. i'm just glad to see that she tried to do something about the kid misbehaving. i'm sick of all the brats around with nobody to teach them anything. i'd rather hot sauce than have to put up with a lot of shit from other peoples' kids. disgusting.

Children live what they learn - they are not born brats.

All babies are born with a blank slate - it's what they learn that fills their slate up.

There are no bad children just poor and horribly bad parents.

Some people should never have children - case in point - how many children are abuse and die - DIE each day, month and year - at the hands of one's own (BRATTY) parents.

Disgusting how many evil people (parents) there are in this world - how many innocent lives are ruined or taken - some people should NEVER, EVER HAVE CHILDREN.

Brats, I think not - poor parenting - I think so - absolutely - there should be training, then a test - followed by an extensive interview before any couple (if a risk) can have children.

God Bless all the children of this world - such a rough world it is.

What a world we live in - such MANIA!!!!!!!

I agree Shannon. This woman has mental issues. If this is an adopted child he needs to go to a foster home til this woman gets treatment. I believe she knew she needed "help" and that's why she went on this show. She admits she is "always" punishing her children obviously too many kids for her to handle. I feel sorry for all of her children they are all being harmed by this woman's mental condition.

Don't be so quick to judge a person's action. I'm from a family of 10 siblings and my dad spanked us all with his belt, sticks, fly swatters, hangers. He would line us all up and one by one we'd get spanked from oldest to the youngest. And he spanked my causins too. One time the boys stoled apples from the neighbors and so my dad lit fire crackers in their pockets. Well most of us turned out fine to include my oldest brother who got tied up for beating up on my sister. We all feared my dad and never spoke profanity. That said, there are more memories of good times and we appreciate that he worked night and day to provide for us. He captured all our memories in photos and film. He made many sacrifices so that we would have a chance to move out from poverty. My point, its human relationships, family relationships, appreciation, forgiveness and understanding. My husband grew up in typical suburban family and holds a grudge to this day against his dad who never once hit him.