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Originally Posted by shakran
Exactly how is this going to traumatize her? Are you suggesting that whenever we get embarassed we never recover from it? Really, this pop-psychology obsession with traumatization is just not grounded in reality. It'll traumatize her while she's holding the sign. Probably for a few days, maybe even a week afterward. Then she'll get over it, hopefully having learned a lesson. By saying this is going to traumatize her for life you're equating a behavior modification tool with sexual abuse.
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I don't know exactly how this could traumatise her. I don't know her. But I think this is too extreme a way to solve a kid having bad grades and acting up - especially a teenager. I'd much rather remember my parents in a good light, than remember being forced to stand by the road with a card saying I'm a bad kid and I don't live up to my parents expectations. There are surely better ways to handle the situation. And I am not equating emotional trauma with sexual abuse - you're saying that, not me.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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