Parenting or Shaming: The new scarlet letter?

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Now that the videos are showing up online with parents publicly shaming their children, as a viewers once the horror subsides, we are left to wonder how it took so long for this ingrained need to abuse others in the name of correction to find its way onto social media.

Here are some of the problems with this approach to parenting.

Serving Time – the lifelong sentence of being shamed by a parent in the name of “love.”
Ignoring Bullying Research – the potential life long psychic damage on those who are bullied, as well as possibility of repeating bullying tactics once bullied.
Social Climate of Control and Punishment – enacting notions that brutality is the best way to correct people who make mistakes. See for example this video of an Illinois parent publicly shaming and disciplining his daughter in the school grounds in front of close to 500 children.
In the words of a child “Big people should not harm little people.”
We like what Wayman Gresham, a school educator in Florida, has done to challenge the trend of parents humiliating children by creating the following video with his son Isaiah.

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