I Like Active Parents
The story is, a 34-year-old mother has a child that's not performing to her potential in school and behavior wise. The mother, at loose ends no doubt, decides to try and give this girl a lesson from the school of hard knocks. She put her on a street corner (mother stood with daughter) and made the daughter hold up a 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."
And at this ... I smile. Good for you mom. Better to react strongly then to let it slide. Eventually her daughter, should her behavior improve, will thank her for setting her on the right path. The story reads that the daughter has improved in the weeks since the "experiment" and has said she will no longer "talk back."
See? Success. Or at least, short term success. We'll see how she acts in the long term.
But the softies out there are crying "pyschological damage." Hmmm ... how much pyschological damage is done from failing out of high school? Or from not going on to college with your peers? Or by living at home until your 40 and working at McDonald's? I wonder if its worse then what this mother did ...
At the end of the article I link to above, the psychologist interviewed said you get better results for reinforcing good behavior, rather than punishing bad.
No word as to how many children he has. My guess is none. I could be wrong. But I just know how I was as a kid, and how I was raised. I was a strong willed, mouthy child, and if my parents had not punished me for my bad behavior, I probably would have kept on doing it.
But that's just me. No other kid is like that. :)
Anyway. I liked this story. She didn't beat her child as punishment, she didn't yell, she was creative. And hopefully this works. Teenagers respond amazingly well to humiliation I think. They go to great lengths to avoid it. Maybe even get good grades.
And at this ... I smile. Good for you mom. Better to react strongly then to let it slide. Eventually her daughter, should her behavior improve, will thank her for setting her on the right path. The story reads that the daughter has improved in the weeks since the "experiment" and has said she will no longer "talk back."
See? Success. Or at least, short term success. We'll see how she acts in the long term.
But the softies out there are crying "pyschological damage." Hmmm ... how much pyschological damage is done from failing out of high school? Or from not going on to college with your peers? Or by living at home until your 40 and working at McDonald's? I wonder if its worse then what this mother did ...
At the end of the article I link to above, the psychologist interviewed said you get better results for reinforcing good behavior, rather than punishing bad.
No word as to how many children he has. My guess is none. I could be wrong. But I just know how I was as a kid, and how I was raised. I was a strong willed, mouthy child, and if my parents had not punished me for my bad behavior, I probably would have kept on doing it.
But that's just me. No other kid is like that. :)
Anyway. I liked this story. She didn't beat her child as punishment, she didn't yell, she was creative. And hopefully this works. Teenagers respond amazingly well to humiliation I think. They go to great lengths to avoid it. Maybe even get good grades.
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