References to the movie "A Christmas Story" aren't uncommon this time of year, but a North Carolina teacher's method of reprimanding one student has people mainly mentioning a scene in the film ...

I came home from running errands a few days ago to find my 5-year-old son, “James,” in tears. He said his dad had put a bar of soap in his mouth for calling him an asshole after my husband threw water ...

A Florida couple has been arrested for making their child eat a bar of soap as punishment. It is a ramped-up version of an old-fashioned punishment many of today's adults endured as children -- and ...

Parents at a popular Upper Manhattan elementary school where “discipline is not punitive” went ballistic when they learned the principal had hired a teacher once accused of ordering a child to wash ...

DEAR AMY: At a play group with my toddler son, another mother with whom I am acquainted mentioned she washed her 5-year-old’s mouth out with soap to curb his lying. She obviously thought it was no big ...