I saw on the news about a man who made his son wear a sign on a busy street corner that told the world he was the class clown and failing in three subjects with the reporter questioning whether it was right or if it was cruel.
Here's the thing, at that point, I would assume the father, who by the way stayed out there with the boy, had tried a multitude of other treatments to no apparent avail. So he turned to one treatment that is tried and true, the one thing nobody likes is to be forceably embarrassed, hell we don't like it when it is on accident. I am sure there are cores of people everywhere that are screaming up and down saying this is wrong, that it is abuse. Horse-crap! He isn't beating the child, isn't even giving him a spanking. He isn't yelling at the child, (teenager by the way) not that some of that probably didn't happen, and he isn't torturing him, he is only embarrassing him.
Ironically, the child seems to have learned the lesson as he states in the video "I know it was my fault and I will try harder from now on." Yet I guarantee there are still people screaming about it.
I say, good job dad. You didn't leave him out there, you basically bore the embarrassment with him, you didn't beat some sense into him, you simply embarrassed him by showing the world his accomplishments. Now, is it something I would do? Probably not, but then my child studies hard AND is the class clown.
If the tables were turned, in lieu of beating her, I probably would try alternative punishments. This one I guarantee worked for this young man, and it showed him that his dad would stand by him no matter what.
Just an Old Soldier Ranting.
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