This picture is starting to make the rounds on Facebook. The original picture is a full-body shot of the kid standing in front of his house; I’ve cropped out everything but the relevant information, for what will soon be obvious reasons:
We’ll see how viral it actually gets, and whether any of you see it shared to your walls, but… yeah. One of mine.
Sigh.
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dog shaming is one thing. Kid shaming is another all together. Hopefully that kid has the sense of humor to deal with that crap.
My son’s math teacher tried kid shaming once. She made him use his phone to take a photo of his blank piece of paper and send it to me with the comment – look what I’ve accomplished today, Mommy. Are you proud of me?
I turned into the ‘bitch-hulk’ and went off on the principal…
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I don’t get it. Embarrassment and shame have no place in parenting. Geez….
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Ugh. I see stuff like this all the time, and so many of my friends and family approve of it. Do they want to raise kids to be well-adjusted adults, or do they want to break them?
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my parents used a lot of “i’m disappointed in you” as a control/discipline technique. i totally think they would have used this type of thing if they had thought of it and congratulated themselves on their parenting techniques. now i’m not one to judge people’s parenting as long as it doesn’t involve beatings, but i will say this: i struggle with the sense of “disappointing” people to this day. cripples me in some ways, in fact. even simple stuff like my blog gets caught up in the idea that i might disappoint or upset someone.
so unless you want a kid in therapy, this may not be the way to go.
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Hold on: When seeing the picture, I thought the kid wrote it himself in rebellion. You think the PARENTS made him do this?? Really??
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I am a hundred percent certain.
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Fuck me. Oh my f?&*)( god. Shit. Wow…. I find myself very, very sad for this kid.
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I remember when I was the class clown. I was in kindergarden or in first grade at the time. I got a certificate for being the class clown. My grandma was pissed. From that day on I toned myself down in the classroom. Which is lame because I want to be myself. Back in the good ole days you can get away with a lot of stuff. Nowadays you can get kicked out for school just for pointing your hand like a gun.
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As a retired secondary school teacher and a parent of two vastly different special needs children, I would assume that the young person in question has attention and behavioural issues that are not being addressed by the parents or effectively monitored in the classroom ( under-funding can stretch any teacher’s skills & time to the breaking point, students fall into those cracks ).
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