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I like this mom.. That is very creative punishment! I vote buy her a beer and nominate her mom of the year!
June 1st, 2008 at 11:45 amUnique way to handle it but effective. I know a few people who could have benefited from a mom like her. Good for her!
June 1st, 2008 at 12:21 pmThis seems to be a good idea. If your kid scews up, make sure everyone knows it. Public humiliation, in SOME cases, is an adequate punishment. Because what do many people fear most, but looking stupid in front of their peers? The grass cutting idea is also pretty good, too.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pmI’m glad my mom just hit me. Fuck that sign.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:44 pmAs I have no children, it would be inappropriate for me to venture an opinion on the wisdom of this kind of discipline. However, (there’s always a “however”) there is much more to this story than meets-the-eye.
In American society, it is common for parents to ground their children for behavioral infractions (i.e., they can’t go out with their friends for a specified duration of time). In Japan, the punishment is the opposite. Children are banned from the household for a specified duration of time for having shamed the family with their inexcusable behavior. Native American Indians did the same. Shaming techniques are common in Arab countries.
What is the difference?
To punitively discipline a person is to remove from them a freedom or privilege that deprives them of something they cherish in hopes that such deprivation will stimulate conformity of behavior. My view is this rarely works. It usually fosters aggressive resentment on the infractor.
Shaming, on the other hand, cuts to the quick of the human encoded honor system. The accused is reminded that transgressing outside the code of acceptable conduct results in removal from the social order. This is shame, and it hurts the ego, the center of ourselves that desires a place in the grand scheme of things.
As long as this kid is in fact guilty as charged, this mother is far more far-seeing than most. The loss of our identity within society is a far greater stimulant to conformity than is the loss of privilege.
Honestly, if a man were found to be abusive to women, rather than jail him for ten years, flog him in the public square. He’ll change his ways, because shame cannot be endured. The loss of freedom will only cost the taxpayers and leave the accused with a sense of resentment for the society that “victimized” him.
Think about it.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:52 pmBe it the sign, or a good ass whooping. Thats a good bit responsible parenting. Right on Ma’am.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pmLibtard: “thats a horrible punishment, it will hurt his self esteem.”
June 1st, 2008 at 4:19 pmBullying is not about violence its all about humiliation. Maybe now this kid has tasted a little he will be less inclined to humiliate someone weaker than him.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pmNice going mom.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pmPublic humiliation is a very powerful motivator to act right, for most people that is. If we brought back stocks in the town square complete with rotten tomatoes et al, I think it would deter a lot of petty crime.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm