Mom Punishes her Daughter using Facebook

[Ma Huang Sor]

http://now.msn.com/now/0521-mom-facebook...hment.aspx



Spanking your unruly children is so 20^th century. Modern-day parents punish their offspring via social networks. After Texas author ReShonda Tate Billingsley busted her 12-year-old daughter posing with a bottle of vodka on Instagram, she made the poor kid post a super-embarrassing second photo of herself holding a sign that read: "I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should (and) should not post." The photo scored more than 11,000 shares when Billingsley reposted it to her Facebook page. The mom told ABC News her daughter was so traumatized by the punishment that "she actually asked for a spanking instead." Although this public shaming wasn't as harsh as the North Carolina dad who shot up his daughter's laptop after she sassed him on Facebook.

[Ma Huang Sor]

Let me guess up front that someone named RaShonda is African American?

[Duchess]

I saw this the other day. I'm not into humiliation as a way to make a point but I didn't have a problem with the dad who fired away at his daughters laptop, matter of fact I liked it. Speaking only for myself I think it's awful for a parent to humiliate their children in order to stress a point, surely there is a better way.

[Ma Huang Sor]

You're right Duchess. Shaming an adolescent always comes back to bite you in the ass when the person shamed grows up and realizes how they've been treated.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Shame is a pretty good tool. Look at it like this; most of the reason kids do stupid shit is to look cool to their friends, take that away or let them know that is what will happen and its a good way to keep them on the straight and narrow without actually doing it to them. If they know they will end up looking like an asshole to their friends instead of Cool Hand Luke they will think twice.
I never had to use corperal punishment with my kids, started way early with positive reinforcement to get them to do what I wanted, then took away stuff that was important to them when they didn't. Load in a little manual labor and it works for most kids.

[LuciferLynn]

My oldest has a fb page. I set it up for him so I have the password. He knows, as do all his friends, that I can and DO log in on a daily basis to see pictures, read messages and check chats and if I see something I think is not appropriate on his part, his fb page is gone until he can grow up some. If I see something from one of his friends, I tell his/her parents. I know all of his friends parents and for the most part, we're all on the same wave length. Just the fact that he and his friends know an adult is checking keeps them in line. It also helps that he's not a retard and has chosen his friends wisely so they're all pretty good kids.