jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

There have been several stories of parents punishing their kids by posting embarrassing videos of them on YouTube. That's not necessarily a good idea.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/05/1390844/-After-her-dad-publicly-shames-her-in-YouTube-video-13-year-old-Washington-girl-jumps-off-overpass?detail=email

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

I don't know what this father was thinking. Why would you cut most of your daughters hair off in the first place let alone put it on YouTube. This will haunt him for the rest of his life. Stupid move, stupid.

Rich

B-n-L Loc: Nevada

I'm sorry but I disagree. The problem isn't public shaming, the problem precedes the incident. Children need to be raised with a good sense of self esteem and self worth. I would bet that her friends teased and joked (i.e. bullied) her about her hair and the incident.
Shaming and bullying occur everyday, people with normal emotional defenses process them correctly. When a parent yells at their child in the store that is public shaming, getting arrested and having it displayed in the newspaper is public shaming. These incidents are normally processed by the affected person.
We need to teach our children to be self reliant. It's good to have friends not need them!

pjarmit Loc: UK, now in Texas

As most of you will know I am not a fan of Facebook (or Face ache as I have heard it called)

  So I decided I had to make friends outside of Facebook the same principles. whilst applying the same principles

 
Therefore, every day, I go down the street and tell complete strangers :-
What I have eaten, how I feel, what I did the night before.
 I also tell them in some detail what I plan to do later.
I even give them pictures of my wife, my sons, my gardening and on our holidays.
Finally, I listen to their conversations and I tell them I love them.

And it works:
I already have 3 persons following me;
2 police officers and a psychiatrist !!Or you can shame yourself on Facebook!

B-n-L Loc: Nevada

:thumbup: :thumbup:

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

Your right, I love it when these young people say they have 125 friends. When you ask them how many they have met in person they give you this dumb look. These so called social networks are a joke. If you haven't sat across a table from someone and had lunch or a cup of coffee, then you cannot call them a friend.

Rich

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Right, and I keep getting "Friend" requests on Facebook for people I've never heard of.

mslubner Loc: Redskin Ridge, Texas

Get over it. Dunce caps in schools, being called over the loud speaker in class to appear in the principal's office, wearing juvenile detention vests while performing community service, etc. are all things I've heard described as public shaming. So what if only 20 people see you instead of the 20 million on Facebook... I should hope a child would be shamed by a misdeed. It's in how they are taught to take responsibility for their actions whether they take it as the punishment it is, as a deterrent for future actions, or as "everybody hates me." Child suicide happens and it can be triggered by less than public punishment (or shaming). It's tragic and it hurts to hear of it, but bloody do-gooders making it into a homicide investigation gets me angry. It's not so bad if your child is an honor roll kid that was caught skipping school one day because they were curious. Send them to bed without dinner (oh, wait...now they say that's child abuse...) But if you have a habitually and chronically misbehaving child that will probably end up dead before they turn 18 because they think they can do as they please with no consequences, then you, as a parent, do what you can to stop it...the least of which would be public shaming.