Posted on 12/06/2014 8:25:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
Parents are reportedly now finding it tougher to discipline their children, because a punishment could result in “parent shaming” by their kids on social media.
A recent article in The Daily Mail asserted that social networks are creating a generation of parents who are afraid their children will complain about them online or even secretly record a parental lecture or rant and then post it.
“You can’t be in fear of raising your kids,” Siggy Flicker said on “Fox and Friends Weekend,” adding that the first thing she takes away from her children as punishment is what they value most: their phones. …
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Yep, we adults really hold all the cards here.
For example: "You will dress appropriately for church, or I will buy the Dr. Who mini-dress at Hot Topic and wear it in front of all your friends."
Loved that movie. Or go as Medea dressed up in her bath robe and crullers.
My kids grew up before the age of the net. So all those spankings did not get broadcast.
But grands use it. Parents with any brains at all, can put up counter shame ads, pics of them doing dumb stuff like picking their noses, of their trashy rooms, gross eating habits, endless list of gross things they do daily.
You can always make them wash dishes as a punishment and film it.
Good reason to get a camera hid in their room.
2 can play that game.
I might just have to break down and take a selfie - Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirt, white socks and black shoes, while mowing the lawn.
“The obligatory one on the bear skin rug?”
That and more :)
“All I have to do is tell them I’ll be the “cool dad”, and promise to hang out with them.”
Your children must live in terror :)
Uncle Buck was one of John Candy’s best!!
“Tell your captain for me “nicely played sir, nicely played indeed!”
He has a great mind and attitude. It’s how he achieved full bird captain :)
“ I will buy the Dr. Who mini-dress at Hot Topic and wear it in front of all your friends”
You mean there’s something wrong with that ? ;)
Start a shaming war!
I’d look better in it than my daughters would. However, I’m not a Dr. Who fan.
My niece tried that a couple of years ago. My sister in law being the no nonsense Irishwoman she is erupted like Mt. Vesuvius and now the kid has no Facebook page. She was punished with grounding and God knows what else. You have to nip that stuff in the bud.
Problem solved.
I’m sure you would :)
When my kids start acting up in public I play Muslim... Pull the scarf up over my head, effect the accent. They shape up fast. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Any parent that is afraid of their kids “shaming” them on social media has already lost.
I was not my daughters’ friend. I was their parent.
Now that they are in their twenties, we are friends and we get along great.
The first time my daughter said, “I hate you”, I laughed out loud. I explained to her I was not here to make her happy. I was here to turn her into a good adult.
LOL! I use a firm, distinct voice and say things like, “Here you are, being obnoxious to me, and yet, when we walk into that store, you’re going to expect me to buy you things. That is SO FUNNY!!!”
Bwa ha ha ha ha aaaaa!
Adults within earshot turn and stare, and then look awed. They’re probably thinking, “Is she drunk?”
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