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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Why parents should not punish kids with public shaming by Susanna Schrobsdorff

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: July 6-13, 2015
Article: Why parents should not punish kids with public shaming
Page: 31
Author:  Susanna Schrobsdorff
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1. The story took place in the city of Tacoma.
2. The story took place in the state of Washington.
3. She got her hair cut on the video.
4. Answers will vary
5. The girl was 13 years old.
6. She jumped to her death from a highway overpass.
7. The police said the father never meant for the video for public consumption.
8. The girl shared the video online.
9. Defiance ignites fury, shame and desperation in parents.
10. 6 signs: 1) I'm a Liar and Thief, 2) When I grow up I want to go to prison, 3) I am on the road to failure!, 4) I'm a self-entitled Teenager, 5) I've embarrassed myself and my mother because she taught me better, 6) I am a bully.  Honk if you have bullies
11. Snellville, Georgia has a barber that has "old man" haircuts for misbehaving kids.
12. Illinois will start penalizing parents for using social media to humiliate, intimidate or cause emotional distress to their children.
13. La Shawn K. Ford is an Illinois State Representative proposed the law.
14. Parents who are found guilty of cyber-bullying will pay a fine.
15. The money would be kept in escrow for the child until they turn 18 years old.
16. They respond by saying they tried everything else.
17. Norma Simon is the former director of the New Hope Guild Center.
18. Norma Simon says the parents that resort to public shaming aren't evil.
19. Norma Simon says the parents are desperately trying to solve a problem, even if their solution is damaging.
20. True, whether or not you believe shaming a child is wrong, it usually doesn't work as a deterrent.
21. True, social-media discipline often becomes a solution that creates more problems than it solves.
22. A girl's father shooting up his daughter's laptop because of a disrespectful letter she wrote on it.

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