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Submitted by Window Licker! (View user info) at 2005-11-17 12:58:55 EST
I want everyone to read this shit first. It's for all the ones who haven't heard about it yet.
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.
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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.
"The parents of that girl need more education than she does if they can't see that the worst scenario in this case is to kill their daughter psychologically," Suzanne Ball said in a letter to The Oklahoman.
Marvin Lyle, 52, said in an interview: "I don't see anything wrong with it. I see the other extreme where parents don't care what the kids do, and at least she wants to help her kid."
Coretha has been getting C's and D's as a freshman at Edmond Memorial High in this well-to-do Oklahoma City suburb. Edmond Memorial is considered one of the top high schools in the state in academics.
While Henderson stood next to her daughter at the intersection, a passing motorist called police with a report of psychological abuse, and an Oklahoma City police officer took a report. Mother and daughter were asked to leave after about an hour, and no citation was issued. But the report was forwarded to the state Department of Human Services.
"There wasn't any criminal act involved that the officer could see that would require any criminal investigation," Master Sgt. Charles Phillips said. "DHS may follow up."
DHS spokesman Doug Doe would not comment on whether an investigation was opened, but suggested such a case would probably not be a high priority.
Tasha Henderson said her daughter's attendance has been perfect and her behavior has been better since the incident.
Coretha, a soft-spoken girl, acknowledged the punishment was humiliating but said it got her attention. "I won't talk back," she said quietly, hanging her head.
She already has been forced by her parents to give up basketball and track because of slipping grades, and said she hopes to improve in school so she can play next year.
Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.
"The trick is to catch them being good," he said. "It sounds like this mother has not had a chance to catch her child being good or is so upset over seeing her be bad, that's where the focus is."
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I think that is the best punishment for bad grades I've heard of this year. Everyone gets too lost in the bullshit of positive reinforcement. If you don't feel shame or some sort of anguish because of some bad shit you did or other things you failed to do then how is that positive. I heard all of this positive reinforcement bull when I was in high school. It never did a damn thing for me. Most kids are smart enough to recognize when they do positive things and rewarding them for every little fucking good thing they do and ignoring the bad is not good parenting.
You know I hope this kid does have some kind of psychological damage. I hope it permanently damaged the trigger in her head that says talking back and acting up are ok cause you can get away with it. I hear from some older people on here that people have always said that kids now adays are out of control since forever. I don't think kids are worse than they were 50 years ago. I do however think parents have gotten much worse at their job. It's not because they are trying to be bad parents. I think most of them just have so much other shit to worry about that it all gets lost in the scramble.
Most families today can't afford to have a parent stay home and raise the kids. So we kind of lose track of our kids and what they do all day. Then of course theres always the outside influences like the child psychology "experts" who started positive reinforcment. Praising a child for every little good thing they do and ignoring the bad shit is not positive. When they are little, hit your kids if they deserve it. When they get into high school, embarass the shit out of them because I don't remember a single one on one talk with mom or dad but I do remember every embarassing situation they put me in.
I also think that if both parents work that once your child enters their teen years they should have a gps tracking device implanted in them. Because if you can't be home when they get home to make sure they aren't doing dumb shit then at least you can make sure they are at least at home. All of this shit may sound a little insane but it's what I think should happen. Probably wouldn't fix the problem but might at least help.
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Submitted by MyTeeOne (user info) at 2005-11-17 17:50:52 EST (#)
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I praise the parent for at least trying.
Submitted by The_Cyst_Master (user info) at 2005-11-17 14:38:07 EST (#)
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Show your kids how to masturbate when they're 9 years old and they'll never leave the house! I never got in trouble as a kid because I was too busy knocking one out...12 times a day.
Submitted by alragusa (user info) at 2005-11-17 13:43:13 EST (#)
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"Positive reinforcement"? What the fvck is that?
Stupid shit made up by yuppies drinking lattes and jerking off on thier blackberries.
Kids today are shit because parents aren't doing thier job. "Too much to do" is a poor excuse. People today live beyond thier means. Don't drop five grand at Disneyland and you can actually spend more time with your kids jerk0ff!
Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info) at 2005-11-17 13:08:43 EST (#)
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Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.
"The trick is to catch them being good," he said. "It sounds like this mother has not had a chance to catch her child being good or is so upset over seeing her be bad, that's where the focus is."
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Donald Wertlieb is a douche.
Yea, heap praise on a kid for doing something they're supposed to do anyway, but ignore all their mistakes. Fuck that. Someone needs to pimp slap this guy and tell him to shut his mouth.
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2005-11-17 13:05:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
AWE-SOME!
Submitted by Foonbo (user info) at 2005-11-17 13:03:11 EST (#)
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Because this is gonna get me extra credit in my Educational Psych. class. Thanks.
Submitted by fudgepacker (user info) at 2005-11-17 13:02:20 EST (#)
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my father just used to whip me with his belt. that usually did the trick.