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It's not every day that a former Facts of Life cast member holds forth on borderline methods of child abuse. But behold Blair's defense of "hot saucing," the child-disciplinary practice that's sweeping the nation:

Lisa Whelchel, who played Blair on the popular 1980s TV series The Facts of Life, is an advocate and practitioner of "hot saucing." Whelchel, the author of Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline, says the practice worked for her children when other disciplinary actions did not.

"It does sting and the memory stays with them so that the next time they may actually have some self-control and stop before they lie or bite or something like that," Whelchel said on ABC News' Good Morning America.

If only Mrs. Garrett had hot saucing available to her when she was the Drummond's nanny...we might've had a proper Diff'rent Strokes reunion show with the entire cast.