Father Makes Bully Daughter Walk 5 Miles To School

[ChillDoubt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46471438

Excellent parenting IMHO.

Views?

[ChillDoubt]

It's the putting it on the www which is questionable.
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Not really. Her face isn’t shown on the video and it might assist some parents in re-evaluating how they ‘punish’ their children.

[ChillDoubt]

....and apologies to YMB for a duplicate thread, I did a scan of News and Chatterbank before posting but must have missed it.

[jim360]

Yes, I'm sure that ten-year-old Kirsten Cox, from Swanton, Ohio, is grateful that her face wasn't shown to preserve her anonymity.

[kvalidir]

^^ Innit Jim^^
Her life will be a living hell at school :(

[jno]

there was another case like this a few months back, wasn't there? My feeling at the time was that it's one thing to punish a child, it's another to put it all on the internet so the whole world hates her.

[ChillDoubt]

Yes, I'm sure that ten-year-old Kirsten Cox, from Swanton, Ohio, is grateful that her face wasn't shown to preserve her anonymity.
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Yeah, cos none of the kids at her school would have heard about her second banning from the school bus, would they?
Conversely I doubt that anyone outside of Swanton will pay her any regard!

[ChillDoubt]

My feeling at the time was that it's one thing to punish a child, it's another to put it all on the internet so the whole world hates her.
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Would the world hate a 10 year old girl?? Really???
Nothing like a bit of perceived drama to take everything massively out of projected proportion eh?

[Barmaid]

Appropriate punishment is fine and i don't have a problem with calm, rational remonstration and punishment. In my view making her walk (whilst supervised) is entirely sensible.

Shaming on the internet is not about punishment. It's self congratulatory "look at me aren't I a great dad" stuff. At the expense of his child.

[Eleena]

It doesn't feel right to me. He could have punished her less publicly.

[Canary42]

Yes, she's a bully - now I wonder who she could have picked that up from !




Her Dad of course.

[jim360]

As long as the punishment is effective then I don't see a problem with it -- but all posting the video does is to serve the father's own attention-seeking. It's a form of virtue signalling and it really should be (but, of course, is not) ignored.

In practice, perhaps you are right that the girl in question won't suffer too much from this in future, but it's out there now and frankly it's a stupid parent who takes risks like that of embarrassing and shaming their child in a way that the entire world will never quite forget.

[ChillDoubt]

Yes, she's a bully - now I wonder who she could have picked that up from !




Her Dad of course.
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Oh, in the same way that Peter Sutcliffe became a hammer-wielding homicidal maniac from his father, yes?
Some very extreme views on here tonight that pale into comparison of what this girls father did to correct her behaviour.
Perceptions of worldwide hatred for a 10 year old girl, aspersions cast on her father and threats of violence to me.
Some need to get a grip on reality and smell what they’re shovelling! LOL

[tamborine]

disgusting parenting! Stop pocket money, treats, xmas pressy but do not publicly humiliate your own kids or they will lose trust & despise you. I hope dad deletes the vid.

[ludwig]

The punishment is absolutely fine.

Filming it and putting it on the internet isn't. I can't think of a single good reason to do that.

[tinkerbell23]

Out of curiosity....... for those who disagree, how would you punish bullying?