MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/16/D8DTOAD8D.html
EDMOND, Okla.
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."
"This may not work. I'm not a professional," said Henderson, a 34- year-old mother of three. "But I felt I owed it to my child to at least try."
In fact, Henderson has seen a turnaround in her daughter's behavior in the past week and a half. But the punishment prompted letters and calls to talk radio from people either praising the woman or blasting her for publicly humiliating her daughter.
I have to agree w/ the professor, there must be better more effective means of discipline w/ out humiliating a child in that way. She might get her desired results, but at what price? I don't have kids but I know how it feels to be humiliated by a parent, it hurts so much and it affects you still as an adult.
EDMOND, Okla.
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."
"This may not work. I'm not a professional," said Henderson, a 34- year-old mother of three. "But I felt I owed it to my child to at least try."
In fact, Henderson has seen a turnaround in her daughter's behavior in the past week and a half. But the punishment prompted letters and calls to talk radio from people either praising the woman or blasting her for publicly humiliating her daughter.
I have to agree w/ the professor, there must be better more effective means of discipline w/ out humiliating a child in that way. She might get her desired results, but at what price? I don't have kids but I know how it feels to be humiliated by a parent, it hurts so much and it affects you still as an adult.