I'll wash your mouth out with soap.

I don't know about you but when I was little my mom would warn me with the "I'll wash your mouth out with soap" scare tactic. And it worked... most of the time... I do remember a few different times I tasted soap. So it would seem appropriate that I should use the same scare tactic with my own children... right? Well, Addison seems to be putting everything in her mouth lately... and I mean EVERYTHING. I tell her "take that out... you are getting germs everywhere." Well for some reason today I walk into the room and she has her socks in her mouth and what comes out of my mouth. "The next time you have something in your mouth that is not food, "I'll wash your mouth out with soap." Did I mean it... No, I hated my mouth being washed out with soap... although I might have to later down the road but not for this situation-he he. Then I go about my business. The next thing I know Addison is in the bathroom, I thought to myself is she doing it to herself??? Sure enough, my very obedient ( i use that word loosely) is standing in the bathroom pumping soap into her hand. I asked her what she was going to do with it and she says "my mouth" and I try to explain... you don't put soap in you mouth it is VERY yucky. I made sure that she washed her hands and she went on her merry way. What a funny girl, it seems to me that she chooses to listen and obey at the most interesting times. I did however find the situation so funny that I had to call Trent at work to share. Don't you wish your kids would wash out their own mouth out with soap if needed???