THIS GIRL IS ON THE SAUCE
EVER wonder what happened to Lisa Whelchel, who played snobby rich girl Blair Warner on the '80s TV show "Facts of Life?" Neither had we. But Whelchel has blossomed into an evangelical Christian author who advocates "hot saucing," in which children are disciplined by putting hot sauce on their tongue. Whelchel, who promotes the practice in her book, "Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline" (Focus on the Family/Tyndale House), tells the Washington Post: "A correction has to hurt a little. An effective deterrent has to touch the child in some way. I don't think Tabasco is such a bad thing." Her book suggests a "tiny" bit of hot sauce be used, and offers alternatives such as lemon juice and vinegar. Discipline involves "drawing a line to protect the child." If you say, so, Lisa: but it sounds like child abuse to us.