need more parents like this one

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'm sure she would have admitted her stunt didn't work if her daughter's behavior didn't change...

Spare me the typical today's-approach bullshit. It's not a "stunt" if it works, now is it fuckwad? What would you have done, Einstein?

Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.

"The trick is to catch them being good," he said. "It sounds like this mother has not had a chance to catch her child being good or is so upset over seeing her be bad, that's where the focus is."

Gee, maybe the reason why mom hasn't "caught" her daughter being good is because the little bitch never is? Some people respond better initially to negative reinforcement. The trick is now to balance that with positive reinforcement once her little shit actually does something right.

 

[Golferdow01]

I applaud the woman. She did not abuse her in any way. You can't give a kid a cookie everytime they do something good. I was raised that doing something good was SELF-REWARDING and doing something bad demanded repercussions.

 

[StooGrimson]

Spare me the typical today's-approach bullshit. It's not a "stunt" if it works, now is it fuckwad? What would you have done, Einstein?

She says her daughter's public humilation worked. Yeah, lets just take her word for it without evidence to back her claim up. What kind of disciplanarian was this lady during her daughter's early years if she had to resort to this? I don't know b/c the reporter didn't bother to do actual research. Pardon me if I'm not dumb enough to believe all of the facts were reported and certainly not stupid enough to think this lady would have been truthful if her humilation tactics failed.

For the record, I'm all for using humilation, spanking, and other methods that some new age "experts" frown upon to discipline your kid and I wholeheartedly support public humialtion of idiots who commit minor crimes. I just happen to this the "reporting" done on this story sucks.

 

[scooter1369]

Great job, lady. Well played.

BTW, Is your daughter available to 'work' Friday? I promise to feed her first.

 

[DEBuckeye]

This is awesome. One of the biggest problems that we, as a society, face today is that no one takes responsibility for their actions. As a result, there are no consequences, and kids grow up learning that they can do pretty much whatever they want without worrying about what might happen later.

This Mom showed her daughter what the consequences of her actions would be. She has probably seen homeless, jobless people on the streets many times before but has never thought about how they got there, or how it feels. Now she knows.

My wife works in the medical field; many of the patients she sees are poor, drug-addicts, some are homeless, and most are throwing their lives away (literally) because of their lack of foresight and a disregard for consequences. I can't wait until "take your child to work day" when she can show our son what happens when you act this way.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

I guess the experts believe public humiliation for a day is worse than humiliation for a lifetime working for Taco Bell... or maybe she'll make a better income as a prostitute or selling drugs...

 

[Steve19]

Spare me the typical today's-approach bullshit. It's not a "stunt" if it works, now is it fuckwad? What would you have done, Einstein?




Gee, maybe the reason why mom hasn't "caught" her daughter being good is because the little bitch never is? Some people respond better initially to negative reinforcement. The trick is now to balance that with positive reinforcement once her little shit actually does something right.

And maybe if our child psychologist was the expert he was asserted to be, he would have noted that behaviorists repeatedly demonstrated that negative rewards can be effective at changing behavior.

Make no mistake, this child will be somewhat scarred by this, but she may have been scarred a hell of a lot more by a teen pregnancy, drug overdose, or flunking out of school. I believe in tough love and thank God I never had to be this tough.

 

[Wingate1217]

She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."

It should have said this...I don't do my homework and I act up inschool, so my parents are preparing me for my future. I will attend the University of Michigan this fall!!!

 

[BuckBackHome]

I am attending my first parent-teacher conference next week. My 4 year old may be on the street corner holding a similar sign.

Well, the boy will not be standing on a street corner with a sign anytime soon as the report from the teacher was good. I gotta tell you, I was nervous as shit since my Mom was always pissed when she came home from my conferences. My wife eats it up because she was a nerd in school.