Mom Punishes Son...People Complain

[Emrld]

I agree what I wrote was a generalization.

I am seeing a trend of people who create/ give birth to children. Meet the basic needs of shelter, food, and the opportunity of education. However, if anyone says their child has done something wrong, or suggests that they take a more active role . ..forget it.

There are people who consider any form of disiplince to be abuse. Ok maybe they are ok with the time out concept of 1 min for each year of age .. . .sorry but 15 min isn't go to have an effect in a situation involving stealing. (These are the parents that say it is cruel to gound, or take away privledges, like all channel access cable in little Johnny's room.

Those are the parent's I am referring to. And true it doesn't happen in evey case . . .but enough times to allow for the generality.

[Tanasi]

When I was a kid Mom made us keep our hands in our pockets. She wasn't afraid that we'd steal something so much as break something. You have to try real hard to break something if your hands are in your pockets.
To this day when my kids acompany me to the store they either keep a hand on the buggy or a foot on my shadow, and if they mess up they better give their hearts to Jesus because their butts belong to me. My oldest daughter is 21 and she still unconsciously follows that rule.
I really really agreee with the Mom, she knows the kid and if that is what it takes to get his/her attention then so be it.

[Ree]

Hmm...I never noticed this one before now.

I watched the video.
(Irrelevant, but how come, in some shots, it looks like he's holding a green sign, and in others, it's orange? )

Anyway, I have mixed feelings.
At least she's taking his theft seriously and doing something about it, but I have a huge problem with the public shaming. (If a judge had ordered it, I would give a thumb's up, but to me, there's something a little disturbing about a Mom sitting casually in a lawnchair, looking around to see who is staring at her son, while he holds a sign proclaiming to the world that he's a thief. Also, who filmed it? Was it a casual observer, or was it someone that the Mom asked to film it? If that's the case, then I have to wonder why.)

I really have to ask why she's doing it. Does she really want to nip the theft in the bud, or is it because she, herself, works in the correctional system and was humiliated and embarrassed by the theft, more than anything?

Did she chooses public humiliation to get back at her son for humiliating her?

If this was genuinely a plan to teach him a lesson not to steal, then I hope it was effective, and I hope it was worth it to her.

If, as I suspect, though, it was a way to teach him a lesson for embarrassing her, then that is not good parenting at all.