Teaching your parents a lesson
If you’ve never seen the Christmas Story, the only thing you need to know is that one of the characters gets his mouth washed with a bar of soap for cursing. Now that we have that out of the way, we can appreciate these parents’ tactic for punishing their foul-mouthed child.
Ooor maybe now. You see, kids, who are absolutely clueless about everything, will take your punishment, flip it upside down, and end up turning it into a huge expense that you, the parent, have to cover. When his kid swallowed the bar of soap, the parents had to fork over five Gs to get his stomach pumped.