AHH the good old days, when if matron caught you swearing you were made to stand in front of her desk with a bar of carbolic soap in your mouth for 15 minutes. A bit Dickensian but that’ll learn yer.

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 ...