Parental Shaming

If it's not newsworthy then I don't see the point in having a strong opinion about it. This mom made a choice and whether it was right or wrong if this child has lasting trauma from wearing dowdy clothes for two days it's because people told her she should. I'll save my outrage for kids who actually go through something more serious than simple embarrassment.

 

I don't see how you can predict such a thing.

 

One more thing i'd like to add. Everyone pretty much knows that I am a thrift store shopper. My daughter and i both wear almost exclusively thrift store clothing and we are neither dowdy nor unfashionable. If a child is dressed in clothing that is unfashionable, it's not likely because their clothes are secondhand.

 

I hope that my child will never judge someone basing on something so trivial as expensive clothes. In fact in Italy the amount of money parents use to buy clothes for growing children is quite often far over the edge.

If (s)he will ever do I suppose (s)he will not the only one at school, and doing that just to be accompanied by others equally stupid children that care more about expensive clothes than other stuff. Making sure (s)he learn, even the hard way, that these guys are assholes that can bully even YOU if you go once with the wrong attitude, it is something that I consider fundamental.

 

Based on the dress the child is wearing in the photo, I suspect that the child she was teasing was perhaps the child of very religious parents, perhaps Mormons, but could be Pentecostal or any other religion that places very demure standards of dress on females, rather than 'poor clothes.' The article just says that she was teasing the child about her clothes.

In either case, the more I think about it, the more I am pretty satisfied with the way this mom handled it. She didn't beat her or lock her in a closet or place her on the side of the road in a diaper or simply ignore it, she said, 'hey, let's see how you feel.' It's classic role reversal and there's nothing wrong it. Either children are indeed special snowflakes who need to be protected from life and the consequences of their actions or they are (or should be) resilient enough to walk in another person's shoes and, if not learn something, experience something outside of their own psychological comfort zone.

 

You cannot just blame the faceless "media" for this being in the news.

It wouldn't be if the mother involved hadn't been prepared to further humiliate her kid so she could get her face on TV.

 

Sorry. As much as I despise the notion of making fun of what other people wear –especially if the asshole who does it, has to rely on their parent’s to buy their own stuff – humiliation is a really poor choice of discipline. Stooping to the level of the superficial ingrate that YOU created will only strengthen the notion that what people wear overrides who they are. I agree w Morehead.