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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Kids telling the truth
Message-ID: <1228@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 13:49:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1228
Posted: Thu Aug 29 13:49:18 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 06:50:17 EDT
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Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <1141@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes:
>
>A similar situation happened to me once.  My mother was convinced that I had
>lied to her about something (I don't even remember what.)  The punishment for
>lying and swearing in our house was having our mouths washed out with soap.  I
>got the "normal" treatment that day.  Later in the day, I had the opportunity
>to prove that I had been telling the truth.  My mother took me into the
>bathroom, handed me the soap, opened her mouth and told me to wash her mouth
>out!  That always struck me as being a very magnanimous gesture.  It meant a
>lot more to me than a simple appology would have.
>
>I've done similar things with my daughter once in a while, and she seems to be
>quite impressed by the event and remembers it for a long time.
>
>

Even though this may not be the appropriate newsgroup, I have to relate
a story my grandmother told me about my father.

He was brought up in a strict Yankee Congregational household where
the punishment for profanity was the aforementioned soap-in-the-mouth,
except that Fells Naptha was the bar of choice. 

One day, my father was trying to build something when he either hit
himself with the hammer or made a mistake, or some such thing, and promptly
exclaimed, "DAMMIT!". Well, his mother tore out of the kitchen, grabbed
him by the ear, dragged him into the kitchen, and proceeded to wash is
mouth out with the dreaded soap. As he was standing there gagging and
sputtering, he said, "You know, Mother, that tastes just like shit!"

Some people never learn.

Dick Pierce