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    Tough Love or Too Much?

    Parents Force Girl to Hold Sign as Punishment for Being Disrespectful. Tough Love or Too Much?
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    What do you think? Good parents or bad parents?
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    The Loneliest Runner method, might work for some, will foster resentment for others.

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    Too much. No ifs, ands or buts about it IMO.

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    I don't think it's criminal and without knowing the girl, I'm not going to judge if it was "good" parenting. Good parenting is knowing which buttons to push.
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    We have entered a world where people are taking social media way too much into account when making real decisions about life. Not good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by edabbs44 View Post
    We have entered a world where people are taking social media way too much into account when making real decisions about life. Not good.
    If and when I ever acted up as a child, my parents were not afraid to use a little corporal punishment. Needless to say, I quickly learned to behave myself. Children should have a little bit of fear of their parents.

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    Kids suck.
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    Good for her parents. The fact that she hugged her mom, shows that she knows her parents love her. Who gives a flip what someone in San Diego says about a teenage/parent relationship in florida. Worst Parents ever??? Please, I'm guessing Asa Semaj wasn't thinking of the crack addicted babies, or children that have been molested by their fathers while their mothers looked the other way.

    I'm not going to discount the pain felt by losing her Uncle 15 months ago, but as someone who lost their own mother at the same age, you have to learn to move on with your life. I doubt this was the first punishment they've handed out, and I hardly doubt getting 3 "D"s is her most egregious sin in the last 15 months.

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    I'm not going to discount the pain felt by losing her Uncle 15 months ago, but as someone who lost their own mother at the same age, you have to learn to move on with your life.
    Wow.

    By the time they are 13 I'm of the belief that the influence parents can have is basically none going forward. What kids do between about 13-21 doesn't have much to do with the quality of parenting at that moment, it has to do with the parenting that was done from 0-13. And even with good parenting, kids will make poor choices and go down bad roads. Do what you can, but if you didn't lay the groundwork it really gets out of your hands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post
    Wow.

    By the time they are 13 I'm of the belief that the influence parents can have is basically none going forward. What kids do between about 13-21 doesn't have much to do with the quality of parenting at that moment, it has to do with the parenting that was done from 0-13. And even with good parenting, kids will make poor choices and go down bad roads. Do what you can, but if you didn't lay the groundwork it really gets out of your hands.
    I disagree. It almost sounds to me like you're implying a parent's job is done at age 13. It's not. There's a reason why 18 is considered the age of majority and why kids who commit heinous crimes under the age of 18 can't be considered for the death penalty even if they're tried as adults. It's because both through historical experience and scientific study, people under the age of 18 often can't fully comprehend the ramifications of their actions.

    Parenting is more about knowing your kids and what is going to work and what won't. For most of us, it's a lot of trial and error. Kid does something wrong, you find a way to correct it, if it works good, if not, try something else. For all I know, a public shaming might be just the right thing for this kid. For other kids, it's not going to work. I have 3 kids and the two who are old enough to know right from wrong are completely different. One is very sensitive and just raising my voice is enough to get him to stop doing something wrong (when he was 6, I had to stop watching Bengals' games for a while because he would cry when I yelled at the TV). On the other hand, my other son doesn't get his feathers ruffled easily, is fairly easy going, but has a bit of a bad temper at times and can be very defiant. For him, I've had to try other approaches and it's still a learning process.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yachtzee View Post
    I disagree. It almost sounds to me like you're implying a parent's job is done at age 13.
    Nope, but if you think you have as much influence after that age as you had before 13, you're wrong. And if you didn't lay the groundwork before that age, it's hopeless to start at that point, which is what I always think has failed to happen when I see these acts of stunt parenting.

    Lot of parents want to feel like they own their children, which is a big reason things like this and that video cincinnati chili posted happen. I don't really understand why people like that have kids to begin with, but it takes all kinds I guess.
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    I think the answer to this is pretty simple. If you value having kids with good grades over raising kids who are emotionally healthy, then this is probably a good method. If both are important to you, then I would suggest an alternative method.

    The consequences of shame-based parenting are fairly well documented. Even if your kid is thick skinned, this will have some kind of negative effect on just about any kid.

    But.... if you're going to go "all in" with shame-based parenting, maybe take a lesson from this guy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU
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    Quote Originally Posted by cincinnati chili View Post
    I think the answer to this is pretty simple. If you value having kids with good grades over raising kids who are emotionally healthy, then this is probably a good method. If both are important to you, then I would suggest an alternative method.

    The consequences of shame-based parenting are fairly well documented. Even if your kid is thick skinned, this will have some kind of negative effect on just about any kid.

    But.... if you're going to go "all in" with shame-based parenting, maybe take a lesson from this guy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU
    This guy was just threatening and violent.
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    I have no problem with him dressing down his daughter and shooting her laptop with the gun. However people who put their personal business all over the internet just amaze me and it screams out to me that they have much bigger issues than just the ones they are talking about on the net.
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    Quote Originally Posted by George Anderson View Post
    I have no problem with him dressing down his daughter and shooting her laptop with the gun. However people who put their personal business all over the internet just amaze me and it screams out to me that they have much bigger issues than just the ones they are talking about on the net.
    This. I was raised to keep family business at home because it's no one else's business.
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