My White Trash Cure for Spitting
It seems my cure for a biting toddler has been resurrected and isn’t sitting so well with some of our readers. So let me just state for the record that my twins are now 15 and my methods of punishment worked very well for them. These are boys who answer me honestly even when the answer makes me want to cringe. They told me about their first kisses - IN detail bleh and boys who actually called me from a party they were invited to wanting to be picked up because there were no parents there to monitor.
My kids each have laptops - rather then taking their laptop and running to their rooms - they go to their rooms and bring their laptops to the same room with me. Just an observation I’ve made and never said a word to them - but in that I find a great deal of comfort.
I LOVE my boys! We’ve had a tough life - them being preemie twins and me being a single mom with an absent father most of their lives - but when I look around at other kids their age and see all they are in to and see my kids and how they act - I am VERY proud.
So with that said… I thought I’d share my little white trash cure for spitting.
You see, my thought process is IF they are going to spit, I’m going to give them GOOD reason to and not the reason they wanted. So when two of the boys were playing in the back - they decided they were going to start spitting on each other. Eventually it got out of hand and one came to tell.
My dad and my husband both chew tobacco - so I told the boys if they were going to spit, they needed a real good reason to do it. So we sat their little butts down on the picnic table, had them each take a pinch of snuff and place it in their lip. They had to hold it there for 2 minutes. That’s all the longer it took for them to begin turning a funky shade of green.
We allowed them to spit it out, take a nice long drink of water and apologize.
That was 5 years ago and we’ve never had a spitting problem since.
With this post - I have created a category just for my White Trash Parenting Episodes. God knows with my southern roots running as deep as they do, there are plenty of those to share.
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7 opinions for My White Trash Cure for Spitting
Eliza
Jun 27, 2008 at 8:55 am
Oh boy I can only think of the responses you’ll get for that. Remember people this was 5 years ago too, her kids lived. lol I haven’t dealt with this issue (knock on wood) but must say it reminds me of the first time I kissed a boy (first kiss ever) he’d just had chew in his mouth. IKkk. I swore I’d never kiss again. I like this idea.
kadi
Jun 27, 2008 at 9:56 am
That totally sounds like things my grandma used to do to her kids. The whole cigarette smoking cure, the spitting, premarital sex talks which included picutes of genital warts…
Ahhhh the good ol’ days. When it wasn’t abuse to parent your children and get results!
Eliza
Jun 27, 2008 at 10:33 am
Nope now days people ask, “Why are my kids acting like this?” or my favorite, “How do we control them, they are getting wilder these days.”
Florida Girl In Sydney
Jun 28, 2008 at 7:46 am
Omigod, I’m not sure if I should say how horrible that is– or try is tomorrow with my 3 & 4 year olds…
What remedies have you got on throwing things?
Gayla McCord
Jun 28, 2008 at 8:23 pm
One of my favorite punishments for issues that dealt with their hands was to make them stand holding a can of veggies in each hand - while their arms were straight out at their sides almost like a flying position.
Works like a charm
Eliza
Jun 28, 2008 at 10:27 pm
You know we have used the can thing too. Another is when my kids just plop on the couch or jump on it I make them practice sitting on it. Same thing goes with slamming a door. Slam it, fine you’ll just open, walk in, walk out and close the door nicely a couple of times. Drives at them but they don’t do it very often.
Robyn
Oct 6, 2008 at 3:19 pm
oh how i love the southern ways.i was raised that way and i am still living.i raised 2 boys that way.now i have 3 grand-daughters that know a lot about the way we did it in the south.
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